Alexandre Xavier Falcão is a full professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (Unicamp). His international experience in image analysis started in 1994-1996 when he worked on medical image analysis at the Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA. In 2011-2012, he worked at the Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health (USDA, Cornell University), USA, on image analysis applied to plant biology. He currently holds a research productivity fellowship (level 1A) from CNPq and his research interests include image/video processing, visualization, and analysis; graph algorithms and dynamic programming; image annotation, organization, and retrieval; machine learning and pattern recognition; and image analysis applications in Biology, Medicine, Biometrics, Geology, and Agriculture.