Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo.
Associate Professor and Researcher at the University of São Paulo, Sarajane Marques Peres holds a degree in Computer Science from the State University of Maringá (1996), a master’s degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1999), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (2006). She has obtained a Habilitation in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence from the University of São Paulo.
Currently, she works full-time with full accreditation in the Graduate Program in Information Systems at USP. She is a member of the research staff at C4AI – Center for Artificial Intelligence (USP/IBM/Fapesp), where she serves as the principal researcher in the KEML group (Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Learning for Reasoning about Ocean Data). She is the deputy director of the Research Center for New Pedagogical Architectures (NAP). She is a member of the management committee of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at USP. From August 2018 to December 2018, she served as a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and from January 2019 to June 2019, she was a researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
She has experience in the field of Computer Science, with an emphasis on Computational Intelligence. She is currently researching Process Mining, evaluation of Large Language Models, and human-machine interaction using social robots. She is the author of the textbook “Introduction to Data Mining: with applications in R,” published as part of the Elsevier – SBC Series. She was the tutor of the PET-Information Systems group (PET Program – Sesu/MEC) from 2010 to 2018.
Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo.
Bachelor in Computer Science (UEM, 1999), Master in Electrical Engineering (Unicamp, 2002), Ph.D. in Computer Science (Unicamp, 2007), and Habilitation in Information and Technology (USP, 2014). He received the CPqD Excellence Award for his effort and commitment to the CPqD Foundation, where he worked from 2001 to 2006, and the Motorola Bravo! Award for his outstanding work in research and development at Motorola Brazil, where he worked from 2006 to 2008. He holds a Green Belt certification in the Six Sigma quality improvement program (Motorola, 2007). He is an Associate Professor 3 at the University of São Paulo (USP), at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (EACH), working in the Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and the Graduate Program in Information Systems. He is a Level 2 research productivity fellow at CNPq. He was a visiting researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 2018 and 2019. Notably, two of his co-authored articles have gained recognition: the article “Towards a privacy rule conceptual model for smart toys” underpinned a case study in a 2019 UNICEF memorandum on AI and children’s rights, while the article “A study of privacy requirements for smart toys” informed the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s 2020 update of guidelines on age determination. He is an associate partner of the Ercis network – European Research Center for Information Systems. He was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Information Systems (PPgSI) at USP (2014-2018). Currently, he is the president of the Graduate Studies Commission (CPG) at EACH-USP and the vice-coordinator of the Evaluation Chamber of the Graduate Council at USP. He has participated in the organization of several events in the field of information systems, notably as general coordinator of CBSoft 2011, general coordinator of SBSI 2012, program committee coordinator of SBCARS 2012, and general coordinator of international workshops and symposia. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems and a member of the editorial board of three other international journals, and he has been a guest co-editor of six special issues of international journals and the magazine Computação Brasil published by the Brazilian Computer Society. He has served as an invited program committee member for over a hundred editions of different national and international conferences in the field of information systems. His current main research lines are business process management (BPM) and process mining, and social robotics and smart toys.
Full Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo.
Bachelor in Psychology from the University of São Paulo (1990), Master’s (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) in Human Development Psychology from the University of Florida, Habilitation from USP (2011), and Full Professor (2017) at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at the University of São Paulo (EACH-USP). She teaches and conducts research in the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Gerontology on topics related to the Psychology of Aging, such as cognition and aging, memory, metamemory, cognitive training, dementias, and geriatric neuropsychology. At EACH-USP, she was the Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Program in Gerontology (2009-2013), President of the Undergraduate Commission (2011-2013), and Director (2018-2022). She served as a Councilor on the State Council for the Elderly representing the Secretariat of Higher Education (2009-2011) and as a Member of the State Reference Committee on Elderly Health of the São Paulo State Health Department. She is an advisor in the Graduate Program in Gerontology at EACH-USP and UNICAMP, as well as in Neurology at the School of Medicine at USP. She was the principal investigator for the FAPESP Thematic Project 16/00084-8 “Follow-up study of the Campinas and Ermelino Matarazzo cohorts of the FIBRA study: predictors and outcomes of frailty in the elderly in Brazil” (2018-2022). Currently, she is part of the Executive Committee of the LatAm-FINGERS study, funded by the Alzheimer’s Association, which includes 12 Latin American countries, and she coordinates the Graduate Program in Gerontology at EACH-USP.
Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo.
Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo. Bachelor and Licensed in Psychology from the Methodist University of Piracicaba (1989), Specialist in Gerontology from the Methodist University of Piracicaba (1995). Master in Education from the State University of Campinas (1998), Ph.D. in Gerontology from the State University of Campinas (2002), conducted research internship (funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation | FAPESP) at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Salamanca, Spain (2002). Post-Doctorate in Education from the State University of Campinas (2007), Post-Doctorate in Gerontology from the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute of the University of Porto, Portugal (2021). Habilitation from the University of São Paulo (2012). Faculty member and advisor of the Graduate Program in Gerontology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas since 2010. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Gerontology | PPGer EACH USP (term 2014-2018 | term 2021-present). Vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Gerontology | PPGer EACH USP (2018-2021). Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Gerontology from 2021 to 2023. Vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Gerontology | PPGer EACH USP (2023-present). Coordinator of USP60+ EACH since 2006. Responsible for the Ger@ções Project (Learning in the Community Program, USP Provost for Undergraduate Studies | since 2018). Coordinates international academic and research agreements: EACH|USP/Brazil-Portugal: Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra | School of Education; Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo | School of Education; Bachelor in Social Gerontological Education, and Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco | Graduate Program in Social Gerontology. Collaborative researcher of the AgeingC Research Group | Center for Health Technologies and Services Research | CINTESES, University of Porto, Portugal. Researcher at the Medical Research Laboratory on Aging | SLIM66 | FCM USP. Consultant for the Education Policy for Aging of the State of Santa Catarina | State Department of Education. Interested in the areas of psychology of aging, educational gerontology, gerontological education, gerontechnology, self-assessment of health-personality and aging.
Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo.
Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from the Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar (2000). At the same institution, she obtained her Master’s degree (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in Physiotherapy. During her doctoral studies, she conducted a “Sandwich” Ph.D. program funded by SWE/CNPq at the Integrative Physiology of Aging Laboratory at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Douglas R. Seals. She also worked as a research associate on an NIH-funded project at the same laboratory. Currently, she is a faculty member in Gerontology and an advisor in the Graduate Program in Gerontology at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at the University of São Paulo (EACH|USP). She served as the coordinator of the Graduate Program from 2018 to 2021, assuming the role of vice-coordinator afterward. In 2021, she completed a postdoctoral internship in Gerontology at the Graduate Program in Gerontology at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Anita Liberalesso Neri. Also in 2021, she was recognized as an Outstanding Alumnus in Society, for her professional trajectory and significant social contribution during the defense of her doctoral thesis between 2006 and 2020 in the Graduate Program in Physiotherapy at UFSCar. Her expertise lies in the field of Aging, focusing on physical activity, physical-functional performance, multidimensional assessment of older adults, falls, frailty, and long-term care. She is a mother of three children (twins with Autism Spectrum Disorder and one neurotypical child) and took maternity leave in 2013 and 2016.
Visiting Researcher at the University of São Paulo.
Dr. Patrick Hung previously worked with Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle, Washington, on research projects related to aviation services. He holds two US patents on the Mobile Network Dynamic Workflow Exception Handling System with Boeing in the US. He is currently working with the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University on various research projects in smart cities and cybersecurity in the United Arab Emirates. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and at the National Technological University (UTN)-Santa Fe, Argentina.
He has published two peer-reviewed books with Springer, titled “Mobile Services for Toy Computing” and “Computing in Smart Toys,” in 2015 and 2017, respectively. These two books are dedicated to toys and robotic computing, a new discipline that explores how technology influences and enhances the development of smart toys and companion robots. He also chairs the minitrack on Machine Learning, Robotic, and Toy Computing and the symposium on Computing in Smart Toys at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Recently, he has been working on the research idea of companion robots in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV).
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of São Paulo.
Adjunct Professor at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of São Paulo
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Catholic University of Pelotas (2004), Master’s degree in Systems and Computing from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2007) and PhD in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (2020). Adjunct professor at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN). He has been carrying out research related to Affective Computing, Social Robotics, Human-Robot/Agent Interaction, Virtual Agents and personalization of computer systems and games based on the identification of personality traits.
Lattes – LinkedIn
Bachelor’s student in Information Systems, working in programming since 2000. I started with electronics, focusing on digital electronics and programming microcontrollers such as PIC, ATMEL, and later Arduino. In 2011, I made a career shift and specialized in mobile device programming (Android), which remains my area of expertise to this day.
Lattes – LinkedIn
Student in the Information Systems program at the University of São Paulo (USP). Works in the field of Computer Science focusing on data science, user experience/interface, and human/computer/robot interaction.
Hold a master’s degree from the University of São Paulo.
Has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Systems from the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (Peru). Has experience in robotics and artificial intelligence. Hold a master’s degree in Information Systems from the University of São Paulo. (SP, Brazil) and works on a research project with the Robios robot.
