1988: Graduates in Electronic Engineering by the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), in São José dos Campo, Brazil. It dates from this very year the beginning of my interest in speech science.

1990: Master in Science. Thesis presented on October, 5th. Title: Modelo de rede neuronal para o reconhecimento de fonemas vocálicos presentes em um vocabulário de comando (A neural net model for recognising vocalic phonemes from a command-list vocabulary), by the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brazil. Advisor: Dr. Osvaldo Catsumi IMAMURA.

1994: Docteur de l'INPG. PhD thesis presented on November, 4th. Title: Caractérisation et génération automatique de la structuration rythmique du français (Characterisation and automatic generation of French rhythmic structuring), by the Institut de la Communication Parlée/Institut National Polytechnique, Grenoble, França. Advisor: Dr. Gérard BAILLY.

1995-1996: Pos-Doc in the Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem. Grant from Fapesp.

1996-2000: Research project "Jovem Pesquisador em Centro Emergente" (FAPESP), whose title was: Para a emergência de síntese de fala de alta qualidade em língua portuguesa: um gerador automático de prosódia e um ambiente de desenvolvimento (Toward the emergency of high-quality speech synthesis in Brazilian Portuguese: an automatic prosody generator and a developing platform).

2006: Senior lecturer (associate Professor) thesis/book: Incursões em torno do ritmo da fala (in press). Campinas: Pontes. 560 p. Abstract.

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