He is recipient of the CNPq Productivity Fellowship since 2013. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2010. Then, he spent one year in the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas as a Postdoctoral researcher. His research interests include Computer Vision, Surveillance, Forensics, and Biometrics, with focus on problems of face spoofing and recognition, pedestrian detection, and person re-identification. He is also the head of the Smart Surveillance Interest Group (SSIG), a research group focusing on large-scale surveillance, and advises several Master’s and PhD students, all focusing their works on Forensics and Surveillance.