Marcelo da Silva Pinho

Professor

 

Divisão de Engenharia Eletrônica

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica

Pr. Marechal Eduardo Gomes, 50 – Vila das Acácias

12.228-900 – São José dos Campos, S.P.

Brazil

 

Tel.: +55 12 3947-6905

Fax.: +55 12 3947-6930

E-mail: mpinho at ieee.org

 

Biography:

 

Marcelo da Silva Pinho was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, on January 16, 1971. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), in 1994, 1996 and 2000, respectively. In 1998, he was a visiting scholar in the Center for Image Processing Research (CIPR) of the Rensselaer Polytechnique Institute (RPI), NY, USA. From 2000 to 2002, he worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidade Estadual Paulista at Guaratinguetá, SP. Since April of 2002, he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). His professional experience and research interests are in information theory, digital communication, and digital signal processing. He is a member of the Brazilian Telecommunication Society (SBrT), and of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

Information theory, digital communication, and digital signal processing, mainly in the following topics.

 

  • Source coding
  • Rate distortion theory
  • Image compression

 

 

Teaching

 

2011.2 Classes

 

 

2011.1 Classes

 

  • EET-49 Comunicações II (laboratório)
  • ET-288 Comunicação Digital I

 

 

 

Students

 

D.Sc.

  • Oscavo Gonzaga Prata Jr.
  • Fábio da Silva Marques
  • Christofer Schwartz

 

M.Sc.

  • Luciano Barros Cardoso da Silva
  • Marcello Gonçalves Costa
  • Leandro Hideyoshi Ito

 

Former students

  • Karoline M. de O. Nunes – M.Sc., 2007
  • Mariana O. C. Altoé – M.Sc., 2007
  • Diogo C. Milagres – M.Sc., 2005
  • Guilherme Buzato Talhate – M.Eng, 2011
  • Tiago Moraes do Amaral – M.Eng, 2009
  • Marcondes Azevedo Matos – M.Eng., 2005

 

 

Links

 

  1. Institutes, departments and labs

 

 

  1. People

 

·        Prof. Weiler A. Finamore (PUC-Rio)

·        Prof. William A. Pearlman (RPI)

 

  1. Associations

 

·        Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Information Theory Society

Communications Society

Signal Processing Society

·        Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT – Sociedade Brasileira de Telecomunicações)

·        Audio Engineering Society (AES)

 

  1. Brazilian Foundations

 

·        Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq

·        Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP

 

  1. Miscellanea

 

·        Data-compression.com

·        Merriam-Webster online dictionary

·        Michaelis online Portuguese dictionary