About Me
For 6 years lived in Ann Arbor, MI (US) where he learned not only fluent English, but had his first contact with computer networks. Returned to Brazil and in 1998, following high school graduation, was admitted to the Computer Science course of the Federal University of Bahia ( www.ufba.br ). While still a freshman got invited to the student run company (Junior Enterprise – INFOJr – www.infojr.com.br ) where he participated in many software oriented projects. Few months later was already in charge of the marketing department of the company, being responsible for the planning and organization of all the marketing strategies. Afterward got elected to become the financial and administrative director where he headed all financial operations, client negotiations and helped re-structure the company, focusing on what the market was currently requesting: web-enabled applications. Finally, became director of the Internet department of the company where led efforts to standardize web system development, evaluate new technologies and plan member recycling projects. He also became one of the main speakers of the company while in Junior Enterprise Conferences throughout Brazil.
Further developed his entrepreneur side by taking part of business courses given by the Euvaldo Lodi Institute (www.iel.cni.org.br). While still in the undergraduate course, started his own company – Sidekick ( www.sidekick.com.br ) – focused on web and embedded software development. During the last 10 years he has been involved with programming with the most influential web enabled languages and has also been immersed in C/C++ embedded software and hardware development, including a few real-time and many linux kernel drivers projects. While still back in Brazil he helped position the company in key, research-oriented projects, including partnerships with IRT (a Brazilian Research Institute), Samsung (Wireless Division), Sanmina-SCI (Contract Manufacturer), Semp-Toshiba (Computer Manufacturing Division), SMS (Uninterrupted Power Supply Manufacturer) and Gertec (Commercial and Bank Automation).
In the academic front, he got seduced by the first graduate program in Mechatronics in Brazil also at Federal University of Bahia. The idea of researching integrated systems that included mechanical, electronic and software components fascinated him. In no time he had already published an article in one of his favorite research topics: human-computer interaction. His primary research topic — wireless networks — were nothing new as these were commonplace, but a network created through self-organization by mobile nodes without the need of any kind of infrastructure sounded almost as if taken from a science fiction novel. He would then focus on the many unresolved issues in dependable mobile computing, and develop a new mechanism that helps to enhance the capability of broadcasting algorithms to deal with omission faults in a scalable way. Additional publications were produced from this work.
After finishing his masters’ he continued in private consulting with his company while also teaching CS programming and distributed systems undergraduate courses at UNIME , an university in Brazil. However, since September 2008, he has been working with Dr. Dharma Agrawal and other very bright students at the Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing at the University of Cincinnati , Ohio pursuing his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. His current research focuses on dependable wireless ad hoc networks and related issues, including fundamental communication primitives such as reliable broadcasting, heterogeneous networks and wireless mesh networks. He continues to be the entrepreneur he loves to be, and has recently been defined as a ‘serial entrepreneur’. Still hoping for his big break...
As of March 2012, has joined Philips Research North America to become a Member Research Staff, in the Controls, Communication, and Healthcare Informatics Department.
Talmai has multiple CV’s, including one for academic-oriented groups, and another for a more business-minded interviewer. He does not bite, so send him an email at talmai@talmai.com.br and he will surely reply.