Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), affiliated with the Department of Electronics and Computing (DELC) at the Center of Technology (CT). Coordinator of the Computer Engineering program since 2021. Ph.D. in Complex Systems (2014) and M.Sc. in Computer Science (2010) from ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electrical Engineer (2005) from UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil. B.Sc. (2018) and Ph.D. (2025) in Physics from UFSM. Electronics Technician (1995) from the Industrial Technical College of UNESP, Bauru campus, Brazil. Has expertise in Quantum Computing and Quantum Communication, Complex Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Data Science and Big Data, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Optimization, Software Engineering and Full-Stack Development, Bioinformatics, Markovian Stochastic Processes, Numerical Analysis, and Graph Theory. Conducts research and develops projects in Aerospace Systems, GNSS and SDR, as well as in the development of Quantum Algorithms, Fundamental Physics, Astrophysics, Defense and Security, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing with Language Models.