Secretary of Science and Technology of João Pessoa; Full Professor at the Informatics Center of UFPB and PhD in Informatics from PUC-RIO. Founder of LAVID and one of the creators of the VLibras software, a Portuguese to Libras translator executed 10 billion times a year. He worked on the development of the Ginga middleware, published as ITU-T and ITU-R recommendations, and adopted as a standard in the System.
