Paulo Pinheiro is a

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computer scientist working in the areas of

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and

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in support of sciences. Pinheiro has been a research scientist at the

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

's Tetherless World Constellation since 2013. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a staff scientist at the

U.S. Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear we ...

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. Between 2006 and 2012, he was an associate professor of computer science at the

University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public university, public research university in El Paso, Texas, United States. Founded in 1913 as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, it is the third oldest academic component of the Univers ...

. Pinheiro is from a long line of scientists and engineers: his father is a retired professor of material sciences at the

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; his paternal grandfather was the founding Mine Superintendent of

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, the second largest mining company in the world and

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, a great-granduncle, was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of

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, the capital of

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Education

Pinheiro received a licenciatura in mathematics and a master's degree in computer science from the

, and a Ph.D. in computer science from

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

, United Kingdom, in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the

Knowledge Systems Laboratory Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) was an artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University until 2007, located in the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford. Work focused on knowledge ...

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, United States, and a Sistemas de Informação's faculty member at Faculdades INESC/Unai, Brazil.

Research

Pinheiro'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. Pinheiro 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. Pinheiro is a co-author of the Provenance Markup Language (PML) originally developed at Stanford's

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinheiro, Paulo 1967 births Living people Scientists from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian computer scientists Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States Alumni of the University of Manchester Stanford University alumni Brazilian mathematicians United States Department of Energy National Laboratories personnel University of Texas at El Paso faculty