Microsoft Research–FAPESP Institute
Participants
Antonio Carlos Bordeaux Rego
Centre for Research and Development in Telecommunications Foundation (CPqD)
Technology Innovation Director
Campinas, Brazil
Antonio Carlos Bordeaux Regohas been with the CPqD – Telecommunication Research and Development Center since 1977 and is an expert on the areas of Optical Communication, Optoelectronics, Network and Multimedia Planning and Digital Transmission. Since 2001 he has appointed as CPqD Director of Technology Innovation responsible of CPqD technological planning and coordination of all CPqD R&D projects. He is a bachelor in Electrical Engineer and bachelor in Physics at PUC-RJ and received the MS Degree in Applied Physics from UNICAMP.
Antonio Marini de Almeida
Centre for Research and Development in Telecommunications Foundation (CPqD)
Laboratories and Infrastructure Networks Board
Campinas, Brazil
Antonio Marini de Almeida is Post graduated in Telecommunications by University of Campinas and MBA by Escola Superior de Administração e Marketing of Campinas and technologist by Methodist University of Piracicaba (UNIMEP). Marini has worked since 1985 at CPqD (Former Telebrás R&D Center). He had worked on RF microelectronics area (SAW and MMICs devices) and since 2000 on NIR radiation measuring (laboratory and field measurements)including SAR measurements. Actually, coordinates R&D activities at CPqD Labs in RF area.
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Institute of Computing
Campinas, Brazil
Dr. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros is full professor, CS, at the Institute of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil. Her research is centered on the management of scientific data. She has coordinated multidisciplinary research projects handling such data in several application domains, notably environmental planning, biodiversity, agriculture and urban issues. For the past 4 years, she has become involved with problems concerning wireless sensor network deployment, and data management and publication. For more information, see her laboratory web site www.lis.ic.unicamp.br
Cristian Bonacic
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Departamento de Ecosistemas y Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
Dr. Bonacic is head of Department of Ecosystems and the Environment, Director of Fauna Australis wildlife laboratory and head of Conservation and Wildlife Management MSc program. His work about South American Camelids, endangered species of the temperate rainforest and applied research about conservation of Chilean wildlife has been published in more than 30 ISI papers and 5 books. He is currently leading a LACCIR project named LiveAndes in collaboration with Bolivian and Mexican scientists.
Eduardo Freire Nakamura
efnaka@ieee.org; eduardo.nakamura@fucapi.br
Analysis, Research and Technological Innovation Center Foundation (Fucapi)
Nepcomp
Manaus, AM, Brazil
Dr. Eduardo Nakamura is a Professor at the Fundação Centro de Análise, Pesquisa e Inovação Tecnológica (FUCAPI), Brazil, and at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM). His interests include ad hoc and sensor networks and mobile and pervasive computing. In 2009, he received the IEEE Latin America Region Young Professional Award, and the CAPES Great Thesis Award, for the best Ph.D. thesis in Engineering and Physical Sciences and Mathematics, granted by the Brazilian Ministry of Education. In 2010, he was a finalist of the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship.
Heitor Cantarella
Campinas Institute of Agronomy
Soil and Environmental Sciences
Campinas, Brazil
Heitor Cantarella is a soil scientist at Instituto Agronomico in Campinas with MS and Ph.D degrees in Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition from Iowa State University. He works on fertilization of various crops with emphasis in sugarcane. Recent research interest involves evaluating the role of N2 fixation in sugarcane compared with mineral fertilizers, and the impact of nitrogen fertilizers on green house gases (GHG) emissions, especially of nitrous oxides, which may impact the environmental balance of crops used for biofuel production.
Jaime Puente
Microsoft
Microsoft External Research Director
Jaime Puente is the Director of Microsoft External Research responsible for Microsoft Research’s external engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean. Microsoft External Research is a key part of the Microsoft Research program and works closely with academia, governments, and research institutions to help solve some of the world’s most challenging scientific and social problems. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, Jaime spent 13 years as a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Ecuador. Jaime Puente was a Fulbright Scholar for his early engagement with academia. It was during his time as a Fulbright Scholar that he started to lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields exploring how academia and industry needs intersect. His academic background includes an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, and an MBA and an Electronics Engineering degree both from ESPOL in Ecuador. Jaime Puente is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at NOVA Southeastern University in Florida, United States. His main research interests are in computing for the developing world, learning technologies, and specifically how to enhance learning through humancomputer interaction.
João Meidanis
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Institute of Computing
Campinas, Brazil
Dr. Meidanis completed his PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. He is a faculty member with the University of Campinas since 1986. He received the Science and Technology Medal from the State of São Paulo for his achievements in several Brazilian genome projects. In 2002, helped fund Scylla, the first bioinformatics company in Brazil. His interests include computational biology, algorithms, and graph theory. Member of the Brazilian Computer Society.
Juliano João Bazzo
Centre for Research and Development in Telecommunications Foundation (CPqD)
Convergent Networks Board
Campinas, Brazil
Juliano João Bazzo is bachelor and master in Electrical Engineer and doctoral alumni at UNICAMP. Juliano worked in many telecommunication and electrical companies like Siemens Networks, Siemens/BenQ Mobile, Technological Institute for Development - LACTEC and Nokia Institute of Technology - INdT. Since 2010, he is technical coordinator in wireless technology at CPqD, a Brazilian R&D Telecommunication Center. The areas of interest are cognitive radio, wireless sensors network, satellite communication and 4G mobile technologies.
Leonardo Barbosa e Oliveira
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
DPCT
Campinas, SP, Brazil
Leonardo B. Oliveira holds a B.S (UFMG, 2002), M.S. (UFMG, 2005), and a PhD (Unicamp, 2008) in Computer Science. He has been awarded the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Award (2008). He has taken part in the SensorNet Project, the Brazil’s first project on sensor networks. His primary interests include sensor networks and information security. He has worked as a visiting researcher at Dublin City University (Dublin), University of London.
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
University of São Paulo (USP)
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA), Department of Isotope Ecology Piracicaba, Brazil
My main interest in research is biogeochemistry of tropical systems, especially carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and how land use changes alter the dynamics of these elements.
Marcos Pereira Marinho Aidar
Secretary of São Paulo State for Environment
Institute of Botany
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Dr Aidar is an expert on plant ecophysiology, and have been studying biosphereatmosphere interaction through biometric parameters (Photosynthesis, chlorophyll a fluorescence, water potential, LAI, sap flow, live and dead biomass, litter production) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Savannas. He is also studying nitrogen relations in Brazilian native plants (angiosperms, gymnosperms and ferns) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Savannas and the response of native and cultivated plants to elevated CO2 atmosphere and nitrogen fertilization.
Marcos Vinícius Folegatti
University of São Paulo (USP)
High School of Agriculture Luiz de Queiroz (Esalq)
Biosystems Engineering Department
Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
Dr. Marcos Folegatti is an agricultural engineer, head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering ESALQ-University of São Paulo and an expert on water administration in watershed committees according to the 9433/97 Brazilian Water Resources Law. He was the Coordinator of the Chamber: Water Use in Rural Areas of the Watershed Committee of the Rivers Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai (2005-2007). His contributions are the researches dealing with water prices, payment for environment services and water use efficiency in rural areas.
Marie-Anne van Sluys
University of São Paulo (USP)
Institute of Botany
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Ricardo da Silva Torres
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Institute of Computing, Information Systems
Campinas, SP, Brazil
Ricardo da Silva Torres received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2000. He got his doctorate in Computer Science at the same university in 2004. He is an associate professor at Institute of Computing, University of Campinas. His research interests include image analysis, content-based image retrieval, databases, digital libraries, and geographic information systems.
Roberto Marcondes Cesar Junior
University of São Paulo (USP)
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME, Computer Science)
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Roberto M. Cesar Jr. received a B.Sc. in Computer Science, UNESP, a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, UNICAMP, and a PhD in Computational Physics, USP. He was a research visitor at UCL- Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, at ENST-Paris, France and UCSB, CA, US. He is currently a Full-professor at IME-USP. His main research interests are in Pattern Recognition and applications in Computer Vision and Computational Biology. Telecommunications in Paris in 2001. He is currently Full-professor at the Department of Computer Science of IME - USP. His main research interests are in pattern recognition and applications in computer vision and computational biology.
Sergio Tadeu Meirelles
University of São Paulo (USP)
Biosciences Institute, Department of Ecology
São Paulo, Brazil
Dr Sergio T. Meirelles is an expert in Plant Community Ecophysiology, dealing with communities in extreme environments and survival strategies under drought stress. His approach is based in empirical studies of the relation between plant community structure and functional aspects of the use of water, light and CO2 by particular species.
Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca
Semiárido Federal University (UFERSA)
Animal Sciences
Mossoró, RN, Brazil