School of Computer Science

Wean Hall - Room 3702

5000 Forbes Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

Phone: (412) 268-7326

Associate Professor at Computer Science and Statistics Department

University of São Paulo at São Carlos - USP

Av. Dr. Carlos Botelho, 1465

13560-950 - São Carlos, BRAZIL

Office Phone: +55-16-273-9693

Fax: +55-16-274-9150

1998-1999 on leave at Carnegie Mellon University

---

Research Interests:

• Object-Oriented Databases,
• DBMS System Implementation,
• Conceptual Modeling,
• Database Models and Languages,
• Image Databases,
• Query by content in medical image databases,
• Data Structures and Indexing Techniques.

---

Formal Education:

1. B.S. Electrical Engineering (Computers and Electronics Specialization), University of Sao Paulo (USP), December 1977.



2. M.S. Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo - USP,"A Computer-aided Documentation System". December 1982. awarded with honor.



3. Ph.D. Computational Phisics: Electronic Instrumentation - University of Sao Paulo - USP, "An Computer Architecture and a Data Model to Engineering Applications". December 1986.

Publications

Students

Brazilian Information

• Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC. General information, as well as touristic information,

consular services and links to many Brazilian WEB sites.

• Meu Brasil - A very complete page, containing lots of information about Brazil.