Paulo Pinheiro
| Paulo Pinheiro | |
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| Born |
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Residence | Richland, Washington, USA |
| Education |
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais University of Manchester Stanford University |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Employer | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Known for | Author of the Provenance Markup Language and Unified Modeling Language for Interactive Systems. Founding member of NSF-funded CyberShare Center. |
| Title | Staff Scientist |
| Website | |
| http://paulopinheiro.info | |
Paulo Pinheiro is a Brazilian American computer scientist working in the areas of provenance and semantic web in support of sciences. Paulo has been a staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2011.[1] Between 2006 and 2012, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Paulo is from a long line of scientists and engineers: his father is a retired professor of material sciences at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; his paternal grandfather was the founding Mine Superintendent of Vale S.A., the second largest mining company in the world; and Israel Pinheiro da Silva, a great-granduncle, was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
Education
Paulo received a Licenciatura in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, USA and a Sistemas de Informação's faculty member at Faculdades INESC/Unai, Brazil.
Research
Paulo's research focuses on innovative ways of using semantically-enable resources such as ontologies, abstract process specifications, and distributed provenance in support of trust and uncertainty management for sciences. Paulo is the author of the Unified Modeling Language for Interactive Systems (UMLi) developed as part of his PhD work at the Information Management Group at the University of Manchester. Paulo is a co-author of the Provenance Markup Language (PML) originally developed at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory.