Claudio Kirner

Undergraduate in Electrical Engineering - EESC/USP/Brazil - 1973; Master (M.Sc.) in Electronic Engineering (Hardware) - ITA/Brazil - 1978; Doctor (Ph.D.) in Systems Engineering and Computer Science - COPPE/UFRJ/Brazil - 1986; Visiting Researcher Professor in Virtual Reality - University of Colorado UCCS/USA - 1993-1995. He is Professor at Federal University of itajuba - UNIFEI, since 2009; He taught at Federal University of Sao Carlos, from 1974 until 1999; He was Professor at University Center of Marilia from 1999 until 2002; He participated on the creation of the B.Sc. in Computer Science / UFSCar in 1974; He coordinated the implementation of the M. Sc. in Computer Science - Federal University of Sao Carlos, in 1988; He coordinated the creation of the M. Sc. in Computer Science - University Center of Marilia, in 2000; He coordinated the creation of the Undergraduate Course on Computational Multimedia Technology - Methodist University of Piracicaba, in 2003; He coordinated the creation of the Professional Training Courses on WEB Applications and Advanced Computing - Methodist University of Piracicaba, in 2002; He was the adviser of 29 M.Sc. students and eight Ph.D. students at COPPE/UFRJ, USP-SP, UNICAMP, USP-S.Carlos, UFSCar and UNIMEP; He coordinated several projects supported by Brazilian Agencies CNPq and FAPESP with grants of US$800K; He published over 240 scientific papers and 40 books and chapters as author and organizer.