BSc Electrical Engineering (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil, 2003), MSc Information Science and Technology (Hokkaido University, Japan, 2006), PhD Systems Science and Informatics (Hokkaido University, Japan, 2009). Associate Professor at UFMG's Department of Electrical Engineering since 2010 (currently on leave), Lecturer in Computer Science: Data Mining at Aston University, UK, since 2019.