Education: BSc in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. MSc in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), USA, 1991. PhD in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), USA, 1995.
Work: Full Professor of Electronics Engineering, Emeritus, Federal Technological University of Parana State (UTFPR), Brazil.
Visiting appointments: California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), USA Harvey Mudd College (HMC), USA Università di Trento (UniTn), Italy Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UniMORE), Italy
Areas of interest/research: Integrated circuits design (CMOS ASICs), circuit synthesis with VHDL, FPGA-based design, hardware-implemented algorithms for control and communications applications.