I received both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering with the Electrical Engineering Departement from Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Campina Grande, Brazil, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 2002, I concluded my doctoral studies with the Robotics Department of the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France. In 2003, I received the 2001-2002 Club EEA prize for the best french thesis in automatic control.

Currently, I am professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Universidade de Brasília, in Brasília, Brazil. I am the head of Automation and Robotics Laboratory (LARA).

My current research are in the fields of terrestrial and aerial mobile robotics, medical robotics, computer vision, stochastic signal processing, and control systems. For further information, please access my Curriculum Vitae (in brazilian portuguese).