Bachelor's at Ciência da Computação from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (2001), master's at Electric Engineering from Universidade Federal de Goiás (2005) and doctorate at Electric Engineering from Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (2010). Has experience in Computer Science, acting on the following subjects: inteligência computacional, metaheuristicas, search based software engineering, evolutionary computation and search based software testing.