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- Master in Electrical Engineering CETUC, PUC-RIO, Brazil. Master 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. Degree thesis: “A CELP speech coder for Brazilian Portuguese”.

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