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Full Professor · Unisinos · PPGCA
Distributed computing and artificial intelligence for real-world healthcare.
I have been a professor and researcher at Unisinos since 2000 and I founded SOFTWARELAB. My work connects applied research, industry innovation and software development.
2025 Researcher of the YearComputer and Information Science Area“Pesquisador Gaúcho” Award · FAPERGS
13,452citations on Google Scholar
49h-index
147i10-index
2012CNPq Research Fellow since
IEEE · ACMSenior Member
Google Scholar profile ↗Citations and indices updated on November 5, 2026
About me
I am a Full Professor and researcher at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil, in the Applied Computing Graduate Program (PPGCA). I founded and direct SOFTWARELAB, the Unisinos Laboratory of Software Innovation.
I hold a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from UFRGS. In 2016 I was a Visiting Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, with the Pattern Recognition Lab. I have been a CNPq Research Fellow since 2012 and I am a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.
01 — Research
Ubiquitous and distributed computing for real healthcare problems.
Digital healthMedical informatics
Systems for hospitals, monitoring and clinical decision support.
AIApplied AI
Machine learning and pattern recognition.
IoHTInternet of Health Things
Architectures for smart health and pervasive monitoring.
Clinical DataInteroperability
Semantic interoperability in healthcare systems.
Ubiquitous ComputingMobile and distributed computing
Mobile, edge, cloud, and fog computing, and blockchain.
02 — SOFTWARELAB
Research, development and innovation with industry.
I founded and direct the Unisinos Laboratory of Software Innovation, a center of excellence that manages R, D&I projects in partnership with companies.
CoordinationINTEROPCHAIN Platform: Interoperability in consent management and intelligent analysis of health data on blockchainRede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP · 2026–present
CoordinationExplainable AI Agents for Multicloud Infrastructure MigrationSAP · 2026–present
CoordinationMinha Saúde Digital (My Digital Health)CAPES · CNPq
CoordinationInnovations in Hybrid Operating RoomsSiemens Healthineers · 2016–2020
03 — Publications
Papers
Recent papers come from ORCID and refresh every week. Full profiles below.
206 works on ORCID
Most citedGoogle Scholar · November 5, 2026
- 2,253citationsPredictive maintenance in the Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review
- 940citationsFederated learning for healthcare: Systematic review and architecture proposal
- 596citationsOmniPHR: A distributed architecture model to integrate personal health records
- 520citationsPersonal health records: a systematic literature review
- 483citationsSurvey of conversational agents in health
- 369citationsIntelligent personal assistants: A systematic literature review
- 360citationsInternet of Health Things: Toward intelligent vital signs monitoring in hospital wards
- 340citationsSemantic interoperability in health records standards: a systematic literature review
RecentORCID · November 6, 2026
- 2027Beyond Single-Model Segmentation: Consensus-Based Model Selection for Handling Manifestation Variability
- 2026Enhancing health data integrity through on-chain verification and cryptographic proofs
- 2026MyDigitalHealth: Rethinking the health data management
- 2026Toward a Mathematical Approach to Sound Waves for Enhancing Digestive Health
- 2026Revisiting EdgeAI through the lens of communication, storage and computing optimisations
- 2026Multi-agent systems for clinical decision support: A systematic review
04 — Supervision
Master’s and Ph.D. graduates at PPGCA.
14Ph.D. theses supervised
32Master’s theses supervised
3postdocs supervised
26ongoing supervisions
- 7Ph.D.
- 12Master’s
- 5Undergraduate research
- 2Postdoc
Recent defenses
- 2026Multilabel Deep Learning Classifier as Potential Proteomic Biomarker Predictor for COVID-19 Post-acute Sequelae
- 2026Towards functional independence in edge intelligence: An architecture for MLP classification in mhealth scenarios
- 2024Um modelo multinível para estruturação de informações contidas em evoluções de prontuários escritos em texto livre
- 2024Multsurv: A multimodal deep learning model for hospitalized patients survival analysis in the context of a pandemic
- 2024A Value-based Approach for Information Classification
- 2024Aida: Uma Arquitetura inteligente para Gerenciamento de Diabetes
05 — Apps
Software I build myself.
Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, some also on the web. Each one has its own site.
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AllocaInvestments · iOS and webYour whole portfolio in one place: Brazilian and U.S. stocks, fixed income, funds and pension plans, with dividends, returns and tax.
AppuraExpense tracking · iOS, Mac and webCredit cards, bills, recurring expenses, category budgets and multi-month reports.
ListifyLists · iPhone, iPad and MacTo-dos, grocery lists that learn each store’s layout, collections of books, movies and series, and shared family lists.
06 — Entrepreneurship
From research to market.
PotabilCo-founder · chemical-free water and effluent treatment using hydrodynamic cavitation.
GreendoorsCo-founder · sustainable commerce for smart cities, with AI-driven replenishment.Instituto CORECorporate governance and AI applied to management.07 — Consulting
Digital health, AI and systems architecture for your organization.
Consulting and R, D&I partnerships backed by SOFTWARELAB, plus keynotes for conferences, companies and internal training.
- Digital health and HealthTech
- Artificial intelligence and data science
- Cloud, fog and edge computing
- Interoperability and semantics