Microsoft Research–FAPESP Institute
Organizing Committee
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Scientific Director
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
An Electronic Engineering graduate of ITA Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica (Aeronautics Institute), class of 1978, he concluded his Master’s degree in 1980 and his PHD in 1983 at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of the University of Campinas (Unicamp). During 1981, he was a researcher at the Quantum Optics Laboratory of the Italy-Latin American Institute of Università Degli Studi in Rome. In 1982, he was appointed associate professor at the Physics Institute at Unicamp. He has worked as a resident Visitor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. (1986-87), and he was a visiting scientist for three months at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (1990). His research interests are ultra-fast lasers and ultra-short pulses, with emphasis on the study of electronic processes on a femtosecond timescale in optically nonlinear materials, centered on application in optical communications. From 1991 to 1994, and from 1998 to 2002, he was the Director of the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute at Unicamp. From 1994 to 1998, he was Dean of Research at this University. He has been Vice-President of the Brazilian Physics Society and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Optical Society of America. In 2000, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He was FAPESP’s President from 1996 to 2002 and Rector of Unicamp from April 2002 to April 2005. Currently, he is the President of Technology and Competitiveness of FIESP, the São Paulo State Federation of Industries. Since April 2005, he has been the Scientific Director at FAPESP.
Lecture
“FAPESP and e-science”
Juliana Salles
Microsoft
Microsoft External Research, Senior Research Program Manager
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Juliana Salles is a Senior Research Program Manager in Microsoft External Research and is responsible for academic research partnerships in Latin America. Her collaboration projects are related to Climate Change, Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Health and Computer Science . Since joining Microsoft, Dr. Salles has worked for several product teams including Visual Studio, Windows Live and Windows Live Mobile as a UX Researcher. Dr. Salles received her Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction, CS. She has a bachelors and masters in Computer Science. Her interests include User Research techniques and methodology and its integration with the software development process.
Rob Fatland
Microsoft
Microsoft External Research Division
Redmond, WA, USA
Dr. Dennis R. (Rob) Fatland works as a program manager for the External Research division of Microsoft Research, specifically on the use of Microsoft-driven (and other) technologies in service to environmental research. His work currently includes sensor network adaptation to rainforest micrometeorology in Brazil and data and model-driven studies of the biogeochemistry of terrestrial-marine coupling in Southeast Alaska. Dr. Fatland received a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1998. He has worked for 6 years at NASA-JPL in radar remote sensing and for an additional eight years for (then) Vexcel Corporation in Boulder Colorado with emphasis on remote sensing and ground-based sensor networks and applications of geospatial technology to environmental science and applications.