Rogerio Schmidt Feris, Research Scientist, IBM

• Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington
• PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006

Awards

• North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Video Surveillance Software Company of the Year, 2008.
• NSF Grant - Detection and Analysis of Discontinuities in Computer Vision - Matthew Turk, Rogerio Feris and Ramesh Raskar, 2005.
• IBM Research Leader in Multimedia. I was among eight students selected from top universities by IBM - July, 2005.
• Second Best Computer Science MSc Thesis in Brazil (Nationwide Competition). Award received at Congress of Brazilian Computer Society, 2002.
• Various Scholarships, including UCSB fellowship, FAPESP, CNPQ-PIBIC.
• "Cidadão do Mundo" Yazigi Prize - Yazigi Languages Institute - Prize: English Course at Abraham Baldwin College - Tifton, Georgia, USA - July 1998.
• Software for Animation of Wave Spectrums in 3D - Honorable Distinction - 2nd. Place - Congress for Scientific Initiation FURG/UFPEL/UCPEL - University of Rio Grande - November 1997.
• Heuristic Search Applied to the Determination of the Best Path to Take Between Two Points - classified as the best work in the area of basic sciences - Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics - XIII Regional Congress of Scientific and Technological Initiation in Engineering - CRICTE'97 - Porto Alegre, October 1997.
• I National Competition of Computer Science for High School Students - 1st place in the Regional phase with the software: Witness Face Reconstruction - November 1994.
• Composition Prize in the "Year of the Adolescent'' - Rio Grande Bureau of Education - 1st Prize in Prose - presentation of the work ``Being Young'' - September 1988.

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