I am a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, where I work at the Electrical Engineering Department and the IEE-IA lab. Previously, I was a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) at the Araranguá campus. I was a member of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) where my work was related to the design and test of an ASIC for the Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment in LHC (Large Hadron Collider) - CERN. I have obtained my Doctoral Degree in Microelectronics at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2015 and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria in 2010.
My interests are to train researchers and to research in the following areas:
University of São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
Dissertation Title (translated from Portuguese): Synthesis of analog integrated circuits in system-level and circuit-level using modern optimization methods
Research Synopsis: analog integrated circuits are very important in modern electronic systems, performing tasks such as analog to digital conversion, digital to analog conversion, radio frequency communication, filtering and others. The design of this type of circuit requires attending to several performance specifications, being usually performed only by experienced designers. We developed techniques for the design of circuit-level and system-level analog circuits. As the optimization core, we proposed an algorithm based on Simulated Annealing while considering multiobjective information through the use of a crossover operator. An hybrid algorithm combining the proposed algorithm with Particle Swarm Optimization was created to properly explore the Pareto front. Tests indicated the algorithms are efficient for the design of analog circuits as well as outperform many other derivative-free algorithms when applied to purely mathematical problems.
Undergraduate Thesis Title (translated from Portuguese): Tool for integrated circuit synthesis with an educational approach
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