ANDRÉ MAXIMO

André Maximo is a Ph.D. student in Computer and System Engineering
at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received a B.Sc.
in Computer Science in 2004 and a M.Sc. in Computer and System
Engineering in 2006 from the same University. During 2001 - 2007, he
worked for Embratel (Brazilian Telecommunication Company), Brazilian
Navy, Petrobras (Brazilian Oil Company) and Furnas (Brazilian Electric
Company), mainly as a software developer.

For his Undergraduate Project in 2004, he developed an artificial intelligent
system combining Java and Prolog. For his M.Sc. Dissertation in 2006, he
proposes a method to improve quality and performance of volume
visualization using graphics processor units (GPUs). Other works in
GPU include a memory efficient ray casting algorithm using CUDA
technology and a point-based level-of-detail algorithm using object
texture in the geometry shader.

Maximo is currently exploring multi-dimensional data visualization, possibly
time-varying, and high-performance parallel computing using Cell Processors.
He received a Best M.Sc. Dissertation award at SIBGRAPI 2007.