Education:

2001- 2004 - PhD in Electrical Engineering at CETUC, PUC-RIO, Brazil.

Doctoral Dissertation: “Structures and algorithms for multiuser detection and interference suppression in DS-CDMA systems”.

Supervisor: Prof. Raimundo Sampaio Neto

1999 – 2001 - MSc in Electrical Engineering CETUC, PUC-RIO, Brazil.

MSc Thesis: “Speech coding at rates below 2 kb/s”.

Supervisor: Prof. Abraham Alcaim

1993 – 1998 - Diploma Degree: Electrical Engineering at the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, UFRJ.

Diploma thesis: “A CELP speech coder for Brazilian Portuguese”.

Supervisors: Profs. Sérgio Lima Netto and Fernando Gil V. Resende Jr.