Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto  

Biography

Alécio Binotto is a researcher of the Natural Resources Software Technology group since 2013. Holds bachelor’s degree (2000), master’s (2003), and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2011) from UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in collaboration with Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany. Between 2007 and 2010, worked at Fraunhofer IGD (Germany) developing solvers for PDEs focused on CPU and GPU, as well as scheduling heuristics to assign tasks over these PUs. Has also experience with scientific visualization of large data and project management. Before joining IBM Research, started a post-doc at UFRGS (2011) that further led to a guest position at LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) till 2013, in Berkeley, USA. Besides, has participated in several international telemedicine research projects since 2003. In 2011, Alécio was awarded the 2011 IEEE Student Humanitarian Supreme Prize winning the annual IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition with a solution and pilot for tele-ultrasound. This solution is incorporated in the iCare Platform, the most complete web-based tele- diagnosis and monitoring plataform available in Brazil. He co-founded 2 startups in this area and also provided talks to IEEE students on how a research project can make impact in changing the world.

Research Interest

scientific visualization of large data and project management,scheduling heuristics to assign tasks over these PUs