Name
George Mason University (GMU)

Site
www.gmu.edu

Date
2008 - Present

Position
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA)

Experience
Research and development in uncertainty for the semantic web and information fusion area. Coordinated tasks between several researches, usually related to software development and probabilistic ontology design.

About
George Mason University's growing reputation as an innovative educational leader is rooted in Virginia's strong educational tradition. The university began as the Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia in 1957. Eager to support the fledgling institution, the Town (now City) of Fairfax purchased 150 acres in 1958 and donated it to the University of Virginia for a permanent branch campus. In March 1966, the General Assembly authorized the expansion of George Mason College into a four-year, degree-granting institution and gave it the long-range mandate to expand into a major regional university.

In 1972, the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia recommended that the college separate from its parent institution. On April 7, the governor signed the General Assembly legislation that established George Mason University as an independent member of the commonwealth's system of colleges and universities.

Since 1972, the university's development has been marked by rapid growth and innovative planning. Drawing prominent scholars from all fields, George Mason's outstanding faculty includes two Nobel laureates in Economic Science, James Buchanan (1986) and Vernon Smith (2002), the Robinson Professors, a group of outstanding scholars committed to undergraduate teaching and interdisciplinary scholarship, a Pulitzer Prize winner, IEEE Centennial Medalists, and recipients of numerous grants and awards, including Fulbright, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts awards. Endowed chairs have also brought many artists and scholars to campus.

George Mason has expanded its presence to serve the entire Northern Virginia region by employing the revolutionary concept of the "distributed" university. The university acquired the George Mason University School of Law and a campus in Arlington in 1979, and established the Prince William Campus in Prince William County in 1997.

George Mason University has achieved national distinction in many areas. Its reputation continues to grow as the university provides for an educational, cultural, and economic resource for the people of Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation and beyond.

Major Projects
1. AFOSR: Information Fusion and Performance Modeling with Distributed Sensor Networks Project under Dr. Chang supervision.
2. ONR: Predictive Situation Assessment with Multi-Entity Probabilistic Ontologies Project under Dr. Chang and Dr. Laskey supervision.

Name
School of Federal Revenue Administration (ESAF)

Site
www.esaf.fazenda.gov.br

Date
2006 - 2007

Position
Teacher

Experience
IT coordinator and teacher of the course “Software Development Methodology” (MDS).

About
ESAF is part of the Ministry of Revenue. In the second stage of the selection process, ESAF promotes the development of Formation Courses, where it allows the integration of the candidates to the Public Service and prepares them to perform the activities of the position they will take.

Name
Foundation of Scientific and Technological Enterprises (FINATEC)

Site
www.finatec.org.br

Date
2003

Position
Teacher

Experience
Coordinator of the module “Object Oriented Programming”, offered in support to the various object oriented courses lectured at FINATEC and UnB (University of Brasilia).

About
FINATEC is a non-profit organization created to support research and technological development. The main objective is to serve as a bridge between the private sector and public universities, facilitating the entry of resources for research.

Courses
1. Java.
2. Design Patterns.
3. Java and Eclipse.
4. JDBC.
5. RMI.
6. WAS v5 for zOS.

Name
University of Brasília (UnB)

Site
www.unb.br

Date
2000 - 2003

Position
Research Assistant and Bursar.

Experience
Scientific Support Scholarship. Students' academic center bursar. Two scholarships for researching in artificial intelligence – AI (focus on probabilistic reasoning). Developed software in J2SE and J2EE. Worked with databases and performance tuning. Designed applications using UML and related technologies.

About
The University of Brasilia was inaugurated on April 21, 1962. It currently has more than 1,400 teachers and about 2230 servers. UnB offers 72 undergraduate, 64 masters, 45 PhD and dozens of specialized courses. The additional offices help students in with teaching, research and other works. They are: the Hospital Universitário de Brasília (hospital), the Biblioteca Central (library), the Fazenda Água Limpa (farm), the Centro de Informática (IT), the UnB TV (TV), and the Editora UnB (publisher).

Major Projects
1. UnBBayes with Support for Intranet/Internet and Wireless Devices - UnBBayesServer.
2. Framework and API for Intelligent Systems Design Based on Influence Diagram and Multiple Sectioned Bayesian Network.
3. LINFCA.
4. Probabilistic Reasoning Applied for Medical Diagnostics.
5. UnBBayes API and Framework.
6. Participation in Programming Marathons and Olympics.

contact: rommel.carvalho@gmail.com - George Mason University (GMU)