Geraldo Figueiredo da Silveira Filho

Geraldo Silveira received the Ph.D. degree in computer vision and robot control from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech)/INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2008; the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)/CTI Renato Archer in 2002; and the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of RN (UFRN) in 2000. In 2002, he joined the Center for Information Technology Renato Archer (CTI), Division of Robotics and Computer Vision (DRVC), where is currently a permanent Senior Research Scientist, and leads the VISIOTEC research group. He has also been an Affiliated Research Professor at UNICAMP since 2014. Since 2018 he has been a Visiting Professor at Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. He was appointed in 2011 as Invited Professor of the european Erasmus Mundus Vision and Robotics Masters program. During his undergraduate years, he had also studied and worked in USA and Germany. Dr. Silveira has received important awards, such as in a scientific event organized by the Brazilian Society of Automatics, and in an event endowed by SIEMENS. His scientific contributions have also contributed to start up high-tech companies, including internationally. His current research interests include computer vision, robot vision, vision-based control, and robotics. In these fields, he is author and reviewer of various journals and international conferences. According to Google Scholar, he has a h-index of 16 with nearly 1,000 citations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)