Born in 1953, male;
Italian and Brazilian citizen;
Post-Doc, Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Education, OU/COE/AME/EML, 2011-2012;
Post-Doc, Civil Engineering - Computational Systems, UFRJ/COPPE/CIVIL, 2005-2007;
Post-Doc, Computer Science - Machine Learning, KUL/DTAI/ML, 2006;
D.Sc., Civil Engineering - Computational Systems, UFRJ/COPPE/CIVIL, 1999-2003;
M.Sc., Civil Engineering - Structures, UFRJ/COPPE/CIVIL, 1978-1981;
Civil Engineer, UEL, 1972-1976;
Licentiate in Mathematics, UEL, 1973-1975.

Research, development, implementation and maintenance of engineering computational systems since 1976.

University professor since 1980.

Associate Professor, UFPR - Curitiba - PR - Brazil (1992-present)

Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses to civil engineering students.

Developing and maintaining a statics & dynamics course WEB site.

Wrote the book Implementing Data Mining Algorithms in Microsoft® SQL Server™.

Wrote papers presented at international conferences and published at electronic journals.

Implemented a data mining provider for the Microsoft® SQL Server™.

Developed a civil construction drawing course WEB site.

Developed a CAD/CAE software for structural design of reinforced concrete buildings.

Developed a software for structural design of telecommunications steel towers.

Taught MicroStation and AutoCAD training courses for users and company staff members.

Served the DM2007, DM2008 and DM2009 international scientific advisory committee.

Visiting Professor, OU - Norman - Oklahoma - USA (2011-2012)

Member of the Engineering Media Lab (EML), School of Aerospatial & Mechanical Engineering (AME) , College of Engineering (COE), University of Oklahoma (OU).

Developing real-time internet-based simulation applications for dynamics, using a cluster server.

Visiting Professor, KUL - Leuven - Belgium (2006)

Member of the Machine Learning (ML) sub-group, Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI) research group, Department of Computer Science, Informatics Division, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).

Wrote papers presented at international conferences and published at electronic journals.

Served the DM2006 international scientific advisory committee.

Assistant Professor, Federal University of Viçosa - Viçosa - MG - Brazil (1980-1991)

Wrote papers presented at international conferences and published at electronic journals.

Maintained a language oriented structural analysis system.

Developed an automatic structural data generation CAD/CAE system for offshore platforms (CENPES/PETROBRÁS).

Taught undergraduate courses to civil engineering students.

Research Fellow, UFRJ/COPPE/CIVIL - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil (1978-1980)

Developed a language oriented 3D linear elasticity analysis system (10774 lines of source code).

Portuguese: understands, speaks, reads and writes very well (native).

English: understands and reads very well; speaks and writes well.

Italian: understands and reads well; speaks and writes reasonably.

Spanish: understands and reads well; speaks reasonably.

French: understands and reads reasonably.

Hardware: Pentium PC's; VAX751, Intergraph; IBM1130, IBM360, Burroughs B6700, IBM4331; Olivetti P-652, HP2100A.

Software: MS Visual Studio (C++, Basic); MS SQL Server; FORTRAN; MS Office (Access, Excel, Word) (VBA); AutoCAD (VBA), MicroStation; SAP; Maple, Working Model 2D.