Nivan Roberto Ferreira Jr.

Research Assistant
Visualization and Geometric Computing (VGC) Group
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
E-mail: nferre01@students.poly.edu
nivan.ferreira@nyu.edu

I'm a Ph.D student in Computer Science at NYU-Poly. I started my I started my PhD studies at the University of Utah. Due to a group transfer, I moved to NYU-Poly in Fall 2011. My advisor is Claudio T Silva. My research focuses on Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization. I'm also very interested on Computational Geometry, Computational Topology and Mathematics in general.

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I'm from Recife a beautiful city that is the capital of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. There I did my high school studies at Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica de Pernambuco (now known as Instituto Federal de Pernambuco). During this period I used to participate in mathematics and physics competitions.

I got a Bachelor in Computer Science degree from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil). I also got a Master's degree in Mathematics from the same university.

In 2010 I came to USA to start my PhD graduate work in Computer Science at the School of Computing at the University of Utah in the Fall of 2010. In Fall 2011, I transfered to NYU-Poly.

My research focuses on Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization. I'm also very interested on Computational Geometry, Computational Topology and Mathematics in general.