Luis Gustavo Nonato
Full Professor

Universidade de Sao Paulo
Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao
Departamento de Matematica Aplicada e Estatistica

Luis Gustavo Nonato received his PhD in applied mathematics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1998. He is currently full professor with the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil. Nonato was a visiting professor at the Center for Data Science at the New York University, New York, USA, from 2016 to 2018. From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Besides having served in several program committees, including IEEE Visualization and EuroVis, he was associate editor of the Computer Graphics Forum journal and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He was also the editor-in-chief of the SBMAC SpringerBriefs in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences. Nonato's main research interests include visualization, machine learning, and data science. Prof. Nonato has strong interest in bridging the gap between academia, industry, and governments, leading a number of initiatives with the private sector while settling collaboration agreements between the academy and government agencies, mainly in the context of crime analytics.


Links:

   Main Publications
   Lattes CV (portuguese)

PhD Students:

- 2021: Germain Garcia Zanabria (Spatio-Temporal Crime Pattern Analysis)
- 2020: Rodrigo Colnago Contreras (Time Series Analysis)
- 2018: Markus Diego S.S. Dias (Graph Simplification)
- 2018: Alcebiades Dal Col Jr (Graph Wavelets for Dynamic Network Visaualization)
- 2018: Paola Valdivia (Graph Wavelets for Urban Data Analysis)
- 2017: Erick Gomez-Nieto (Optimal Layout Construction) (Sibgrapi WTD Best Dissertation Award)
- 2016: Adriano Barbosa (Kernel-based Data Visualization)
- 2015: Paulo Joia (Multidimensional Data Visualization)
- 2014: Wallace Casaca (Image Processing) (CAPES Honorable Mention Dissertation Prize)
- 2011: Marcos Aurelio Batista (Image Animation)
- 2009: Mario A.S. Liziér (Meshes from textured images)
- 2008: Kemelli C. Estácio (Mesh free Hele-Shaw flow)
- 2007: Alex J. Cuadros-Vargas (Delaunay meshes from images)
- 2005: Helton Bíscaro (Surface reconstruction by discrete Morse functions)



Recent Activities:

   - Associate Editor - IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2018-2021)
   - Editor in Chief -  SBMAC SpringerBriefs in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences (2017-2021)
   - Associate Editor -  Computer Graphics Forum (2011-2014)
   - President of Cegrapi -  (2011-2013)
   - Invited (Associate) Editor -  Computer Graphics Forum (2010)
   - Invited Editor -  The Visual Computer (2009)
   - Program Co-Chair - XXII Sibgrapi (2009)
   - Program Co-Chair - SciVis short papers (2018)
   - Program Co-Chair - IEEE Vis short papers (2019)
   - Program Co-Chair - IEEE SciVis papers (2020)
   - General Co-Chair - IEEE Visualization (2021)

Honors:

Paper Award:

- Second Place in the International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition 2021
- Best paper award Sibgrapi 2020
- Honorable Mention paper award Sibgrapi 2017
- Honorable Mention paper award Sibgrapi 2016
- Honorable Mention paper award Sibgrapi 2015
- Best paper award Sibgrapi 2013
- Best paper award Sibgrapi 2012
- Best paper award PacificVis 2011
- Honorable Mention IEEE Information Visualization 2011



Student Award:

- Erick Gomez-Nieto - Best PhD dissertation, WTD - Sibgrapi, 2017.
- Wallace Casaca - Best Dissertation, University of S\~ao Paulo, Exact and Earth Sciences, 2016.
- Wallace Casaca - Odelar Leite Linhares Ward - Brazilian Society of Computattional and Applied Mathematics, 2016.
- Wallace Casaca - Honorable Mention PhD dissertation - Capes PhD Dissertation Contest in Computer Science, 2015.
- Wallace Casaca - Best PhD dissertation - Latin America PhD dissertations Contest (CLEI CLTD), 2015.
- Paulo Joia Filho - Finalist of the Brazilian Computer Society Dissertation Contest, 2016.
- Evandro Ortigossa - Best Undergraduate Work, WUW - Sibgrapi, 2015.
- Helton H. Biscaro - Best PhD dissertation, WTD - Sibgrapi, 2005.


Contact Information:

  Universidade de São Paulo
  Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação
  Departamento de Matemática Aplicada e Estatística
  Av. Trabalhador São-carlense 400
  13560-970, São Carlos-SP, Brazil

  Phone: +55 16 3373-9697
  Email: gnonato AT icmc.usp.br