I received my PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Campinas. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Federal University of São Carlos for four years. I worked as a professor and researcher at Centro Universitário Facens for two years and eleven months.

I am currently a professor and research scientist at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.

My research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, natural language, and pattern recognition.