Alexandre X. Falcão received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (1988) from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), PE, Brazil. He has worked in image processing, visualization, and analysis since 1991. In 1993, he received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil. During 1994-1996, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, on interactive image segmentation for his doctorate. He got his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1996. In 1997, he developed video quality evaluation methods for TV Globo, RJ, Brazil. He has been Professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, since 1998, and his research interests include image/video segmentation and analysis, volume visualization, content-based image retrieval, mathematical morphology,
medical imaging applications and pattern recognition.