Category Archives: career

Back from the USA

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by

I have just arrived (suitcases still to be undone) from my trip to the USA, where I have presented at the ACM MIR 2010 and visited the campus of Virginia Tech. Continue reading →

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Tutorial Accepted on SBBD 2009

Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 by

My tutorial Similarity Search and Indexing for High-Dimensional Data has been accepted on SBBD 2009 (The Brazilian Symposium on Databases).  Here’s the abstract: Searching by similarity is a critical operation on many systems, and thus has attracted the attention of … Continue reading →

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Post-Doctoral Internship at UNICAMP

Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2009 by

I am glad to announce that I’ve got a post-doctoral position at the Computing Institute of the State University of Campinas, where I’ll be supervised by Prof. Ricardo Torres. Prof. Torres and I have met last December at Cergy Pontoise, … Continue reading →

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Cooperations, developments, projects: taming the complexity of research

Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by

As I move towards more complex research involving several labs, many students and audacious experimental designs I feel increasingly the need of using more formal management tools. But techniques created for Business (or even Engineering) do not seem to translate well to Academic research. Continue reading →

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Back Home

Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 by

Prof. Arnaldo Araújo invited me for a 4-month research internship in the NPDI lab (which stands, in Portuguese, as an acronym for Digital Image Processing Centre). I’ll be working in cooperation with his students to explore how aggregates of local … Continue reading →

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Back to Brazil… and to an old research subject

Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by

The lack of recent updates has been result of the end of my Research Internship in France, and all the consequent rush in tying up loose ends there, and setting up new projects here. Last week I was blessed with Carnaval break, but it was also opportunity to revisit an old research subject. Continue reading →

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End of Winter Break

Posted on Friday, January 9, 2009 by

After the break, back-to-work under the snow in one of the harsher European winters seen of recent. I am glad that I’ve got my seasonal flu before the break, since I have so much work to finish before coming back … Continue reading →

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Qualification

Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2008 by

France has an interesting system for the selection of professors, based in a double-approving system: first, a qualification at national level, and then, as job positions become available, an evaluation of the interested candidates by a local committee. Continue reading →

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Doctor, at last !

Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2008 by

I’ve passed the viva-voce defense of my Ph.D. thesis “Local-Descriptor Matching for Image Identification Systems”, thus completing the program. I won’t pretend that it is not a relief  to have survived the process, it certainly wasn’t easy! But I have … Continue reading →

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