Faculty

FACULTY
Currently, the PPGCC/UFSC has 31 accredited faculty members, of which 26 are permanent members and 2 are collaborating members.

CHECK HERE THE AVAILABILITY OF FACULTY FOR SUPERVISION
(only permanent members can supervise students)

PERMANENT FACULTY
ALDO VON WANGENHEIM
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Content Production for Interactive Digital TV, Computing in Healthcare, Image Processing and Analysis, and Biomedical Engineering, with emphasis on telemedicine, teleradiology, computer-aided diagnosis systems and medical image processing, with focus on intelligent image analysis, DICOM, CBIR, medical informatics, computer vision and PACS.
E-mail: aldo.vw@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721 7380/ 7383/4715
Room: INE-320
ALEX SANDRO ROSCHILDT PINTO
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Embedded Systems, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing
E-mail: a.r.pinto@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-4720
Room: INE-525
ANTÔNIO AUGUSTO MEDEIROS FRÖHLICH
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Critical Embedded Systems, Critical Distributed Systems, Reconfigurable Multicore Architectures, Secure Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks, Internet of Things.
Website: https://lisha.ufsc.br/Guto
E-mail: guto@lisha.ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-9516
Room: INE-209
CARINA FRIEDRICH DORNELES
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Data extraction, Dark Data, Data matching and similarity, Expert recovery, Machine learning for analyzing legal texts.
E-mail: carina.dorneles@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-2731
Room: INE-410
CARLA MERKLE WESTPHALL
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Distributed systems security, cloud computing, Internet of Things, Identity management, authorization and access control models, privacy.
E-mail: carla.merkle.westphall@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-2738
Room: INE-204
CARLOS BECKER WESTPHALL
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level D
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Computer Science, Networks and Telecommunications, with emphasis on Networks and Services Management, working mainly in the following subjects: security, autonomic computing, cloud computing, fog computing and internet of things.
E-mail: carlosbwestphall@gmail.com
Phone: +55 48 3721-7559
Room: INE-204
CHRISTIANE GRESSE VON WANGENHEIM
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Computer Science with emphasis on Software Engineering (SE), working mainly with: educational games for SE teaching, Usability Engineering/Interface Design for Digital Convergence (mobile devices and interactive television), Software Process Improvement (in micro and small organizations), ISO/IEC15504 (SPICE), CMMI and MPS.BR, and Project Management.
Website: https://www.gqs.ufsc.br/software-quality-group/prof-dr-rer-nat-christiane-gresse-von-wangenheim-pmp/
E-mail: c.wangenheim@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7380 / 7383 / 4715
Room: INE-320
CRISTINA MEINHARDT
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Embedded Systems, Microelectronics, Fault Tolerant Systems
E-mail: cristina.meinhardt@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721 4716
Room: INE 507
DOUGLAS DYLLON JERONIMO DE MACEDO
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Distributed Systems, working mainly on the following topics: Distributed/Parallel File Systems, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Distributed Databases and High Performance Computing.
Website: http://www.lecid.ufsc.br/macedo
E-mail: douglas.macedo@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-3548
Room: 207 – Bloco C – CED/UFSC
FABIANE BARRETO VAVASSORI BENITTI 
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Software Engineering with preference for the areas of Requirements Engineering, Experimental Software Engineering and Software Engineering Education.
E-mail: fabiane.benitti@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7376
Room: INE-518
FRANK AUGUSTO SIQUEIRA
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Distributed Systems, highlighting the following themes: Web Services, Semantic Web, Quality of Service (QoS), Distributed Databases and Cloud Computing.
Website: https://www.inf.ufsc.br/~frank.siqueira/
E-mail: frank.siqueira@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7748
Room: INE-305
GIOVANI GRACIOLI
Master’s Supervisor
Research Interests: Critical embedded systems, embedded systems, internet of things, parallel/multicore reconfigurable architectures, wireless communication and distributed embedded systems.
Website: www.lisha.ufsc.br/Giovani
E-mail: giovani.g@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7323
Room: CTJ-U291
ISMAEL SEIDEL
Master’s Supervisor
Research Interests: Embedded Systems: Algorithms and architectures (design of dedicated hardware blocks) for the compression of visual signals (images, videos, light fields and point clouds), aiming at low energy consumption.
Website: www.inf.ufsc.br/~ismael.seidel/
E-mail: ismael.seidel@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7511
Room: INE-405
JEAN EVERSON MARTINA
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Applied Formal Methods, Formal Analysis of Protocols, Security and Usability, Digital Certification and Electronic Document, Anonymity and Privacy, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Security Protocols for IoT and Post Quantum Cryptography.
E-mail: jean.martina@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7546
Room: INE-420
JEAN CARLO ROSSA HAUCK
Master’s Supervisor
Research Interests: Software Processes, Agile Methods, Project Management, Software Engineering Teaching and Computational Thinking.
Website: https://www.inf.ufsc.br/~jean.hauck
E-mail: jean.hauck@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7507
Room: INE-301
JÔNATA TYSKA CARVALHO
Master’s Supervisor
Research Interests: Adaptive Robotics, Evolutionary Computing, Applied Machine Learning/Data Science on government/public data, health, mobility (trajectories) and for synthesizing logic circuits.
Website: http://tyska.prof.ufsc.br/
E-mail: jonata.tyska@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-4728
Room: INE-404
JOSÉ LUÍS ALMADA GÜNTZEL
  CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with an emphasis on Microelectronics, working mainly on the following subjects: design of highly energy-efficient systems-on-chip (SoCs), EDA – Electronic Design Automation (placement & routing, timing analysis etc), VLSI architectures for high-resolution video coding, VLSI architectures for digital signal processing, design of digital systems with FPGAs.
E-mail: j.guntzel@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-6466
Room: INE-423
LUIZ CLÁUDIO VILLAR DOS SANTOS
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Embedded Computing, Energy Efficient Computing and Electronic Design Automation (algorithms, compilers, multi-core architectures, microelectronics, real-time).
E-mail: luiz.santos@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7549
Room: INE-414
MÁRCIO BASTOS CASTRO

CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Parallel and Distributed Processing, High Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Programming Models, Multicore Architectures, Manycore and Accelerators, Parallel Scientific Applications.

Website: http://www.marciocastro.com
E-mail: marcio.castro@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7374 / Room: INE-504

MAURO ROISENBERG
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition. He works mainly on applications for the oil industry, reservoir characterization and seismic inversion.
Website: www.inf.ufsc.br/~mauro.roisenberg/
E-mail: mauro.roisenberg@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7515
Room: INE-507
ODORICO MACHADO MENDIZABAL
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Distributed systems, with emphasis on Replication, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Agreement Protocols and Development of Critical and Scalable Systems; Model Checking; Software Performance Testing.
Website: http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~odorico.mendizabal/
E-mail: odorico.mendizabal@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721 4702
Room: INE-411
PATRICIA DELLA MÉA PLENTZ
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Distributed Real-Time Processing, Real-Time Task Scheduling, Energy-Aware Real-Time Systems, Parallel and Distributed Programming Models and Mobile Robotics.
E-mail: patricia.plentz@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7510
Room: INE-504
RAFAEL DE SANTIAGO
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Algorithms and Complexity, Discrete Optimization Problems and Algorithms, Mathematical Programming, Study of Characteristics of Heuristics and Meta-heuristics, Computational Theory.
Website: https://www.inf.ufsc.br/~r.santiago
E-mail: r.santiago@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-4628
Room: INE-412
RENATO FILETO
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Data Science, Knowledge-Based Systems, BI, Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Linked Data, Semantic Annotations, Data Semantics.
Website: https://www.inf.ufsc.br/~r.fileto/
E-mail: r.fileto@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-9739
Room: INE-525
RICARDO FELIPE CUSTÓDIO
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Computer Science, with an emphasis on security, working mainly on the following topics: public key infrastructure, secure electronic document, cryptographic protocols, digital signature and cryptography.
E-mail: ricardo.custodio@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7546
Room: INE-211
RONALDO DOS SANTOS MELLO
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Databases with an emphasis on complex data modeling (JSON, NoSQL, geographic data, blockchain, data lakes, polystore modeling, etc.), integration and interoperability of complex data, data management for new database technologies (NoSQL, NewSQL, in-memory, Data Lakes, blockchain, etc.).
E-mail: r.mello@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-7378
Room: INE-408
COLLABORATING FACULTY
MARIO ANTONIO RIBEIRO DANTAS
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow – Level E
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Computer networks, mobile computing and high-performance parallel and distributed computing.
E-mail: mario.dantas@ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 3721-4720
Room: INE-525
MATEUS GRELLERT DA SILVA
Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests: Embedded Systems: Image and Video Compression, Microelectronics (design of dedicated hardware blocks) and Electronic Design Automation. Computational Intelligence: Data Mining, Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning applied to Biomedical Sciences; Deep Learning applied to Visual Signal Processing.
Website: https://www.inf.ufsc.br/~mateus.grellert/
E-mail: mateus.grellert@ufsc.br

In Memorian

LAU CHEUK LUNG

  • Research Interests: Computer Systems Architecture, with emphasis on Distributed Systems and Computer Security, working mainly on the following topics: Fault Tolerance (Byzantine), Distributed Algorithms, Security in Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems, Middleware and Multimedia Systems.
  • Doctorate: PPGEEL/UFSC (2001)
  • Post-doctorate: Universidade de Lisboa, UL, Portugal (2001-2002)
  • Curriculum Lattes