PhD in Computer Science, MSc in Information Science, Graduate Degree in Strategic Management at the
Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and BSc in Computer Science at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). Associate professor of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) and permanent researcher of the
Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGINF) at the PUC Minas, where is the coordinator of the research group
Information Treating Intelligent Systems (IRIS). Member of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and
Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Considering the
ACM CCS 2012, research interests include: i) Information Systems: Information Retrieval, Data Management Systems, Web Searching and Information Discovery, Web Mining, Social Networks; ii) Computing Methodologies: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Distributed Computing Methodologies, Parallel Computing Methodologies.