Awards


  • 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.
  • "Cidadao 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.