Dr. Edson Prestes

Biography
received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science(CS) from the Federal University of Pará (UFPa), Brazil, in 1996 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in CS from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is a CNPq Productivity Fellow (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) for his contribution to Brazilian Scientific Progress. In 2005, he became Professor at UFRGS and nowadays, he is Head of the Theoretical Informatics Department at Informatics Institute (UFRGS) and Leader of Phi-Robotics Research Group (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/phi-group/). UFRGS is one of the most important universities in Latin America (in 2012, it was ranked best university in Brazil by the Brazilian Ministry of Education). In particular, in the Informatics Institute, the Undergraduate Programs are first-ranked, while the Graduated Programs are among the top-five in Brazil.