SÉRGIO COLCHER

SERGIO COLCHER conducted his undergraduate studies in Computer Engineering between 1985 and 1990 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He also holds the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, both from the Computer Science Department of PUC-Rio (1993 and 1999, respectively). He has also been for a Post-Doctorate at ISIMA (Institut Supérieur D'Informatique, de Modélisation et des Applications) ? Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, during the year of 2003, working with network optimization. He worked as a hardware development engineer at COBRA (a Brazilian industry) between 1990 and 1991, and as a Researcher (trainee) at the IBM-Rio Scientific Center, between 1992 and 1995 (during his graduate studies). Presently, Dr. Colcher is a Full-time Professor at the Computer Science Department of PUC-Rio and does research within the Network and Multimedia Systems Group of the TeleMídia Lab at the same University. In his activities within the TeleMidia Lab, Professor Colcher has actively contributed on the development and on the research that culminated with the definition of the Ginga-NCL, a declarative language that has been standardized in the ITU-T as the basis for IPTV systems and for the Brazilian Digital TV standard and its middleware. He has also participated on the creation of the Digital Media Institute (IMD) of PUC-Rio, an inter-departmental initiative to leverage the production of high-quality digital media content production and associated technologies. From 2009 to 2010, he was the chair of the IMD. Dr. Colcher is also a renowned writer of technical and text books. He is author of the best known networking technology text book in Portuguese, "Redes de Computadores: das LANs, MANs e WANs as Redes ATM" (Elsevier, 1995). This book was nominated, in 1996, to the ?Jabuti Prize? (Science and Technology Category), one of the most important awards in the Brazilian literature. Dr. Colcher is also the author of a book on VoIP (Elsevier, 2005). Professor Colcher coordinates a Certificate Course on Data Communications and Computer Networks at PUC-Rio. From June 2010 to October 2015 he has also coordinated the undergraduate program at the Computer Science Department of PUC-Rio. Presently, Prof. Colcher Coordinates the TeleMídia Lab, and also heads the BTGPactual Technological Inovation Center. His current areas of interest include High Performance Computer Networks, Next Generation Wireless Networks, Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, Multimedia/Hipermedia Systems, Interactive Digital TV Systems and Machine Learning.

Sérgio Colcher é professor do quadro principal do Departamento de Informática (DI) da PUC-Rio desde 2001. Obteve os títulos de Engenheiro de Computação (1991), Mestre em Ciências em Informática (1993) e Doutor em Ciências em Informática (1999), todos pela PUC-Rio, além do Pós-Doutorado (2003) no ISIMA (Institute Supérieur D?Informatique et de Modelisation des Applications ? Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, França). Trabalhou no Centro Científico da IBM-Rio e na Divisão de Desenvolvimento de Hardware da COBRA (Computadores Brasileiros S/A). Foi também professor dos cursos de MBA em Gerência de Telecomunicação e MBA em e-Business da Fundação Getúlio Vargas. É autor do livro ?Redes de Computadores: das LANs, MANs e WANs às Redes ATM? (Ed. Campus/Elsevier 1995), livro indicado ao prêmio Jabuti em 1996, e do livro ?VoIP: Voz sobre IP? (Ed. Campus/Elsevier 2005). Em 2012 recebeu o prêmio Personalidade do Ano da Assespro-RJ (Associação Brasileira das Empresas Brasileiras de Tecnologia da Informação, Software e Internet), na categoria Destaque do Setor Acadêmico, prêmio instituído em 1997, com o propósito de reverenciar publicamente as personalidades que, no ano de sua concessão, tenham se destacado por sua contribuição ao segmento de Informática. O Prof. Colcher foi Coordenador Geral dos cursos de graduação do DI PUC-Rio e Coordenador da Graduação da Engenharia da Computação de 2008 a 2015. Atualmente é coordenador do Laboratório TeleMídia, Coordenador Geral do Núcleo BTGPactual/PUC-Rio de Inovação Tecnológica, Coordenador do Núcleo LEARN de pesquisa em Aprendizado de Máquina e Coordenador Acadêmico do Curso de Pós-Graduação em Redes de Computadores da PUC-Rio