BSc in Computer Science by Federal University of Uberlândia (2000);

MSc in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics by University of São Paulo (2002);

PhD in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics by University of São Paulo (2006);

Post doctor by University of São Paulo (2008).

Research Interests:

• Databases;
• Integration of Data Mining with DBMS;
• Data Grouping;
• Semi-Supervised Data Grouping;
• Multimedia Databases;
• Similarity Queries;
• Complex Data Indexing Techniques.