Professor Emeritus of the Department of Computer Science (DCS) of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Member of the Administrative Councils of Kunumi, Technology Park of Belo Horizonte and Petrobras. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the National Order of Scientific Merit in the classes Comendador and Gran Cruz. As an entrepreneur he founded companies from knowledge generated within the DCS/UFMG, namely: Kunumi (2016), Neemu (2010), Akwan (2000) and Miner (1998). He is the author of the book Design of Algorithms and co-author of over 180 scientific articles in the areas of algorithms, information retrieval, machine learning and artificial neural networks.