"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
- Albert Einstein



I was born on 19 October 1974 in Brazil. I studied Electrical Engineering with research in Physics during undergraduate school (1992-1997). I then worked as an Electronics Engineer for a Nuclear Medicine company (1997-2000). I returned to academia in 2000 to pursue a Master's degree in Computer Science, and I transferred into the PhD program in 2001. In 2003 I visited the University of Alberta for the research part of my PhD, after having completed the coursework in Brazil. In July 2004 I defended my thesis, entitled ''Graphical Models and Point Set Matching'', which was awarded the highest distinction. My studies in Brazil were carried out at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

After graduation, I spent 5 months as a postdoctoral researcher at the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (AICML). Since January 2005, I've been working at NICTA, initially as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a permanent researcher. I also hold an appointment as an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Australian National University, at the Research School of Computer Science.