Cristianno Martins Vieira

Born on September 28th 1986 in Ilhéus (Bahia), he is a Ph.D. student in computer science at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in a project supported by São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp). He received his master degree in Computer Science from UNICAMP in 2010. He graduated from University of Santa Cruz (UESC) with a Computer Science degree in 2007. He has participated in bioinformatics projects related to phylogenetic trees' reconstruction (PTR) using distance methods, resulting in the development of the DiGrafu (the module responsible for distance methods in IGrafu, an interface for PTR developed by the UESC PTR Group). In addition, he developed a project in parallel processing as well, entitled "Analysis and Parallelization of ModelGenerator: A program for selection of evolutionary models for PTR." He had received three anual scholarships in undergraduate research projects from Bahia Research Foundation (Fapesb). He had also received a scholarship supported by Fapesp during his master degree. He was also a member of the Linux-Uesc Study Group (Gelu), included in the Linux From Scratch project of this group. His current research interests include computer architecture, compilers, and massively parallel and distributed computing. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)