I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Cornell since Fall 2003. My interests include parallel and distributed systems in general, and my past work at Cornell includes work on P2P live-streaming, publish/subscribe systems, and gossip-based protocols.
I am currently working under the supervision of Robbert van Renesse. We are investigating the main challenges involved in building a general-purpose auditing framework for large-scale distributed systems. Our goal is to build a tool that allows all nodes in a distributed system to obtain general information about properties of the system in a scalabe and resilient way.
I have also been involved in a project with the Human Computer Interaction group at Cornell. Our goal is to use eye-tracking technology to study human behavior in the context of web search. We are analyzing data collected with participants on Google and Yahoo! search engines, and are currently conducting studies on the presentation of refinements in search engine interfaces.
I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. As a graduate student at Cornell, I have been a teaching assistant for CS 312 (Data Structures and Functional Programming) and CS 614 (Advanced Course in Computer Systems). I have also interned with Amazon.com during the summer of 2004.
