Paulo H. L. Rettore is a Professor at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil. His research interests include intelligent environments, such as transportation systems, smart cities, smart farms, and smart homes, with a focus on heterogeneous data fusion, data mining, applied artificial intelligence, and resilient systems and networks.
He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2009, his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in 2012, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2019. He previously worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer FKIE in Bonn, Germany (2019–2025) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UFMG before joining UFLA.