Léo Pini Magalhães

leopini@unicamp.br


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Personal

Léo Pini Magalhães, was born in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, in January 2nd 1952, is married with Silvia and is the father of Lia and Lucas. Lives in Campinas - SP, Brazil.

Education

Graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Campinas - UNICAMP (State University of Campinas) in 1974. Has got his Master of Science degree in the Automation Department of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Campinas - UNICAMP, with a thesis on Self-Tuning Regulators. Started his doctorate in 1978 in the Informatics Department of the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt - FRG, which was concluded in May 15th 1981 with a thesis on Man-Machine Communication in a Process Control Environment.

Professional Experience

He granted two scholarships, one from CNPq - Brazil, from 1975 to 1977, as support for the Master Program; another from DAAD - Germany supporting his Dr.-Ing. work.

He teaches at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Campinas FEEC - DCA- UNICAMP where his employment started in 1977. In 1999 he has held the rank of Professor (MS-6). His main area of interest is Graphics.

In 1979 he acted as monitor in the Computer Graphics II Course at the Informatics Dept. of the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt - FRG and in 1988 was the invited lecturer of a course on Computer Supported Simulation and Animation at the same Department.

In 1988 he spent one year as invited researcher (pos-doctorate) at the Fraunhofer Institut Group of Computer Graphics in Darmstadt - FRG, working in the area of Computer Graphics Imagery.

From August 1996 until December 1997 he spent a sabbatical period visiting the Computer Science Dept. at the University of Waterloo.

He supervised 8 PhD and about 35 Master thesis in the area of Computer Graphics, Coordination and Data Base Systems at UNICAMP.

He is senior member of the IEEE and member of SBC, ACM and EUROGRAPHICS.

His administractive activities include, the following: assistant to the Research Rector of UNICAMP (1986-1987); vice-coordinator of the graduate program of the School of Electrical Engineering - UNICAMP; vice-coordinator of the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation of the School of Electrical Engineering - UNICAMP; coordinator of the Brazilian-Argentinian Informatic Program-PABI (1992-1996); coordinator of the Undergraduate Program of the School of Electrical Engineering - UNICAMP (4/93-3/95); in charge of Latin American Cooperation - ProTeM (1995-1996). He was the Dean of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of UNICAMP from April 1999 to April 2003. Presently he was member of UNICAMP Council.



Last update: January 2018