Paulo H. L. Rettore is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His current work focuses on intelligent environments, including intelligent transportation systems, smart cities, smart farms, and smart homes, with an emphasis on heterogeneous data fusion, data mining, applied artificial intelligence, and resilient systems and networks.
He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Integrated Faculty of Pedro Leopoldo (Brazil) in 2009. During this time, he worked for four years in IT support and one year in system development. He earned his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in 2012, in the area of Image and Signal Processing (ISP), developing research on hardware accelerators from high-level languages (C to FPGA).
He served as an Assistant Professor at the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG) – Frutal Campus (2012) and at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP) – São Carlos Campus (2013). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UFMG in 2019, with an emphasis on ubiquitous computing, intelligent transportation systems, heterogeneous data fusion, and machine learning.
After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE) in Bonn, Germany, where he participated in the preparation of research proposals, development of scientific activities, publication of papers, and supervision of master's students from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn.