Gilson Antônio Giraldi received the Diploma in Mathematics from Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil and Doctoral degree in Computer Graphics from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1986 and 2000, respectively. Since 2000 he is with the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petrópolis, Brazil, where he is responsible for academic research projects in the area of image analysis, machine learning and data visualization. He has published 39 journal  and 100 conference papers in related areas as well as worked as advisor of Master and PhD works.