At UERJ since 2003, he has been lecturing both at undergraduate and graduate levels. There he founded PROSAICO (Signal Processing, Intelligent Applications and Communications Laboratory) in 2007. He earned his D. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 2006. He was born in Neuquen, Argentina, in 1974. However, he enjoys thinking himself as Brazilian and born in Rio de Janeiro.