Wagner Meira Jr. obtained his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1997 and is currently Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research focuses on scalability and efficiency of large scale parallel and distributed systems, from massively parallel to Internet-based platforms, and on data mining algorithms, their parallelization, and application to areas such as information retrieval, bioinformatics, and e-governance.

Contact:
Departamento de Ciência da Computação
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627
Pampulha
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil
31270-010
Tel: +55.31.3409.5867
Fax: +55.31.3409.5858