I am a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the College of Engineering and Computer Science and, by courtesy, Professor of Information Technology and Operations Management at the College of Business, at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (Boca Raton, Florida, USA).
I am a Fellow of the AAAS Leshner Institute, Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, and the author of more than 150 publications in the area of intelligent processing of visual information – which combines the fields of image processing, computer vision, image retrieval, machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and human visual perception –, including the textbook “Practical Image and Video Processing Using MATLAB” (Wiley-IEEE Press).
I am also a Senior Member of both the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and member of the honor societies of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
I’ve received my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, my Masters in Electronics Engineering from the Netherlands Universities Foundation For International Cooperation (NUFFIC) through Philips International Institute (PII) (Eindhoven, NL), and my Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from UTFPR (Curitiba, Brazil), where I also taught for more than 10 years before moving to the USA.
I have more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in different countries (USA, Austria, Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, France, and India) and languages, and have received several teaching awards, including the Outstanding Mid-Career Teaching Award, American Society for Engineering Education – Southeastern Section (ASEE-SE) (2011) and the Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Florida Atlantic University, three times (2018, 2011 and 2004).