Luciano Pereira Soares

Luciano Soares holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from POLI/USP, post-docs from INESC/IST, ADETTI/ISCTE and ENSIMAG/INRIA, and an MBA in Project Management from FGV. His areas of expertise are in: Virtual Reality and Augmentation, Computer Graphics, Games and High Performance Computing. Luciano actively participated in the implementation of the virtual reality centers at Caverna Digital/USP, Lousal and Leme in Portugal, NRCP/PUC-Rio, CENPES/Petrobras, Virtual Reality Space/PUC-Rio and currently at the Virtual Reality and Games Laboratory at Insper. Prior to joining Insper, he served as a systems engineer at Silicon Graphics Inc. and Alias|wavefront. He was also a project manager at LSI-TEC/USP and Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, as well as an associate professor at PUC-Rio. He is currently President of the Special Committee on Virtual Reality of the Brazilian Computer Society. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)