Winner of Purdue University’s Honeywell Teaching Award, the Maria Canto Neuberger Research Award and the Excellence in Teaching Award, DeSouza came to MU after working as a principal research scientist at Purdue and as a senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He also worked for more than 10 years at the Brazilian Power Systems Research Center on distributed and real-time systems for supervisory control and data acquisition and on diagnostic of power systems using machine learning, pattern recognition and computational intelligence. DeSouza has established the Vision-Guided and Intelligent Robotics Lab with funds from the Leonard Wood Institute, VistaCon/Naval Research Lab, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the MU Research Board.