MARCELO GALVÃO PÓVOA
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Academic Formation
Feb 2013 - present
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) - Campinas, Brazil
Graduate M. S. in Computer Science
GPA 4.0/4.0
Feb 2008 - Dec 2012 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) - Campinas, Brazil
Undergraduate B. S. in Computer Engineering (modality Computing Systems)
Graduated with highest academic distinction / GPA 86,49%
Participated in several algorithmic programming contests and training
Short-term Courses
Jan 2012, Jan 2013
Instituto de Computação (UNICAMP) - Campinas, Brazil
Programming Marathon Summer School
Jan 2010
Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
Programming Challenges Course
Experience
Aug 2013 - present
Coach for ACM-ICPC/Programming Marathon teams (UNICAMP)
Conducted classes and trainings. Top team earned a silver medal and a trip to the World Finals.
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014 Internship at Google - Mountain View, United States
Open source firmware development for Coreboot and ChromiumOS in C and Assembly.
First ported ChromiumOS to an AMD (x86) platform. Early ARMv8 firmware work for Coreboot.
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant (UNICAMP)
Jun 2012 - Dec 2012 Internship at Idea! Electronic Systems - Campinas, Brazil
Specification, implementation and validation of DTV related IP cores using VHDL.
Developed and integrated an improved signal synchronization hardware module.
2011
Undergraduate Research (UNICAMP)
Design and development of a secure asymmetrical dual-core architecture. Implementation included
AES core acceleration, hardware firewall and Linux driver for inter-core communication protocol.
Summer 2010
Google Summer of Code Developer
Writing an AMR-WB audio decoder (FFmpeg)
Implemented and tested a specification-based speech decoder in C.
Projects
• Handwritten LATEX symbol recognition AI written in Java Applet. Achieved 95% success rate for 20 symbol classes.
• Open source e-ink screen refresh controller for an Android e-reader device. Enables displaying fast screen animations.
Languages
• Portuguese - native language
• English - advanced reading and writing, proficient speaking skills
Computer Languages and Technologies
• Proficient in: C, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, Linux, Mac OS X
• Familiar with: Android, MATLAB, Windows
Achievements
• State Mathematics Olympiad (OPM) - Silver Medal (2002)
• National Informatics Olympiad (OBI) - Silver Medal (2004), Gold Medal (2008)
• National Physics Olympiad (OBF) - Bronze Medal (2005), Silver Medal (2006), Gold Medal (2007)
• National Astronomy Olympiad (OBA) - Gold Medal (2007)
• ACM ICPC Brazil Regional - Bronze Medal (2008), Silver Medal (2009), Gold Medal (2012, 2nd from Latin America)
• International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) - Bronze Medal (2008, Egypt)
• ACM ICPC World Finals - 36th of 103 teams (2010, China), 60th of 120 teams (2013, Russia)
• Google Code Jam - reached round 3 (2012, ranked 334th globally, 2nd from Brazil)