Joe Tekli

Joe Tekli is a visiting researcher in the Institute of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. He has completed two post-doctoral missions: in the Department of Computer Science, University of Shizuoka, Japan (spring 2010), and in the Department of Science and Technology, University of Milan, Italy (Fall 2009). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bourgogne (UB), LE2I CNRS, France (Oct. 2009), awarded with Highest Honors. He also holds a Research Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Bourgogne (July 2006), and a Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications from the Antonine Fathers University (UPA), Lebanon (July 2005), both acquired with distinction Very Good. He was ranked top of his class in both programs. He was awarded various prestigious fellowships, of the FAPESP (Brazil), the JSPS (Japan), Fondazione Cariplo (Italy), French Ministry of Education and Research (France), and AUF (France). He also held a two year Instructor position in the Department of Computer Science, University of Bourgogne, France (2007 - 2009). His research activities cover XML processing, web services, data semantics, data clustering and classification, and multimedia fragmentation. He is a member of IEEE and ACM SIGAPP French Chapter. He is an organizing member of various international conferences such as ICDIM, SITIS, MEDES, ACM SAC 06 His research results have been published in international journals & conferences (e.g., IEEE TSC, Computer Science Review, WWW Journal, IEEE ICWS, ER, SBBD, WISE, ADBIS, COMAD ). (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)