Paulo Drews-Jr is a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais(UFMG) under the supervisor of Prof. Mario Campos, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His doctoral dissertation was focused on the restoration of images acquired in participating media. His master thesis was focused on change detection and shape retrieval in 3D Maps. He graduated in Computer Engineering in 2007 from the Federal Univesity of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil. His main research interests are robotics, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He was a researcher at the ISR Coimbra’s Mobile Robotics Lab, collaborating, as a research fellow on the FP projects Prometheus and IRPS. He was also a visiting researcher in the Autonomous System Lab at QCAT-CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of the Center for Computational Science – C3 at the Federal University of Rio Grande – FURG, Visiting Scholar in the University of Freiburg, and Planning Coordinator of the iTec/FURG EMBRAPII Unit in Robotic System and Automation. He is also a CNPq Research Fellow of Productivity in Technological Development and Innovative Extension (DT 2).
