RAONNE BARBOSA VARGAS
Curriculum Vitae ( pdf here )
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Raonne Barbosa Vargas
Birth Date and Place: November 7th 1984, Vitoria, Brazil
Contact: raonne at gmail.com
Personal Website: www.raonne.com
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- PhD in Computer Science
University: Yale University
City/State/Country: New Haven, CT, USA
Official Duration: 5 years
Expected Graduation: 2013
- Master of Science in Computer Science / European Master in Computational Logic
University: Libera Universita di Bolzano / Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
City/Country: Bolzano, Italy / Madrid, Spain
Official Duration: 4 semesters
Graduation: June of 2008
Accumulated Credits: 120
Final GPA: 107 (from 0 to 110), equivalent to 3.89 (from 0 to 4).
Complete Transcripts at www.raonne.com/msc-en.html
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University: Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo
City/Country: Vitoria, Brazil
Official Duration: 9 semesters
Graduation: August of 2006
Accumulated Credits: 150
Accumulated Lecture Hours: 2955
Final GPA: 8.75 (from 0 to 10), equivalent to 3.5 (from 0 to 4)
Extra Information: UFES was officially classified by the Brazilian Ministry of Education in 2006 (graduating year) as one of the top universities in the country in Computer Science (level 5 where 5 was the maximum).
Complete Transcripts at www.raonne.com/bsc-en.html
- High School: Centro Educacional Charles Darwin
City/Country: Vitoria, Brazil
Graduation: November of 2001
WORK EXPERIENCE
- NeOn Research Project (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
Ontologies Group Research Project (www.neon-project.org)
Occupation: Graduate Student Researcher
City/Country: Madrid, Spain
Period: November/2007 - July/2008
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Teacher Assistant for Prof. Dr. Susana Munoz Hernandez
Occupation: Teacher Assistant
City/Country: Madrid, Spain
Period: November/2007 - March/2008
- Libera Universita di Bolzano
Library Research Project: Webstatistics
Occupation: Graduate Student Researcher
City/Country: Bolzano, Italy
Period: January/2007 - June/2007
- UFES / ESCELSA (State Electrical Power Company)
Algorithms Group Research Project: Optimal Allocation of Safety Devices in the Electrical Power Network
Occupation: Undergraduate Student Researcher
City/Country: Vitoria, Brazil
Period: October/2005 - August/2006
- Gaia Informatica
Occupation: Junior Analyst/Developer (.NET)
City/Country: Vitoria, Brazil
Period: May/2005 - September/2005
- Vix-TI Tecnologia da Informacao
Occupation: Junior Analyst/Developer (JAVA)
City/Country: Vitoria, Brazil
Period: July/2004 - April/2005
AWARDS AND SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
- Accepted for PhD in Computer Science at Yale University, with full financial support (covering all tuitions and including fellowship stipend). New Haven, CT, USA. Enrolment in September of 2008.
- Awarded with the "Borsa di Studio della Provincia di Bolzano", Scholarship from the Province of Bolzano, in 2007. Bolzano, Italy
- Accepted for MSc in Computer Science and European Master in Computational Logic at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Libera Universita di Bolzano (Italy), Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), Technische Universität Wien (Austria), with all the tuitions waived, in 2006. Enrolled in September of 2006.
- Accepted for MSc in Computer Science at PUC-RIO (the best MSc in C.S. in Brazil according to the Ministry of Education) in 2006, with all the tuitions waived and full scholarship ("bolsa de fomento", best scholarship in Brazil). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Not enrolled.
- 2nd at the top of the graduating class of 2006 in the BSc in Computer Science at UFES (final gpa 8.75, equivalent to 3.5 on a 0-4 scale).
- 3rd place in the State Programming Tournament in 2002. Qualified to the National Programming Marathon. Vitoria, Brazil.
- 3rd place in the Computer Science admission list for UFES in February 2002. Vitoria, Brazil. Enrolled in June of 2002.
- Approved in the admission exam for the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), the toughest university admission exam in the country, in November of 2001. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Not enrolled.
- Awarded in the State Mathematics Olympics of 2001. Vitoria, Brazil.
- Scholarships and Honors received during high school C.E. Charles Darwin (Vitoria, Brazil), 1999-2001.
- Top of the class (1998) at middle school Colegio Marista N.S.P (Vila Velha, Brazil), graduating with Honors and full scholarship.
SKILLS AND INTERESTS
- Algorithms
- Software Development, Analysis and Management
- Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
- Programming Languages: C, C++, .NET, Python, JAVA, J2ME, and others
- Operational Systems: Linux, Windows
LANGUAGES
- Portuguese (native)
- English (fluent). TOEFL (270/300). GRE General (Verbal: 520, Quantitative: 800, Analytical Writing: 4.5).
- Italian (intermediate). Lived and studied in Italy for 1 year.
- Spanish (intermediate). Lived and studied in Spain for 1 year.