Paulo Pinheiro is a

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computer scientist working in the areas of

provenance Provenance (from the French ''provenir'', 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art but is now used in similar senses i ...

and semantic web in support of sciences. Pinheiro has been a research scientist at the

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

's Tetherless World Constellation since 2013. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a staff scientist at the

U.S. Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United States. ...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. The main campus of the laboratory is in Richland, Washington. O ...

. Between 2006 and 2012, he was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Pinheiro is from a long line of scientists and engineers: his father is a retired professor of material sciences at the

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais The Federal University of Minas Gerais ( pt, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG) is a federalIn the Brazilian Higher Education context, ''Federal'' does not mean ''collegiate'' (even though most Federal Universities in Brazil enjoy a sim ...

; his paternal grandfather was the founding Mine Superintendent of

Vale S.A. Vale S.A., formerly ''Companhia Vale do Rio Doce'' (the Sweet River Valley Company, referring to the Doce River) () is a Brazilian multinational corporation engaged in metals and mining and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil. Vale ...

, the second largest mining company in the world and Israel Pinheiro da Silva, a great-granduncle, was the chief engineer responsible for the construction of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.

Education

Pinheiro received a licenciatura in mathematics and a master's degree in computer science from the

, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, United States, and a Sistemas de Informação's faculty member at Faculdades INESC/Unai, Brazil.

Research

Pinheiro's research focuses on innovative ways of using semantically enable resources such as ontologies, abstract process specifications, and distributed provenance in support of trust and uncertainty management for sciences. Pinheiro is the author of the

Unified Modeling Language for Interactive Systems The Unified Modeling Language for Interactive Systems (UMLi) is a conservative extension of the Unified Modeling Language for user interface design. UMLi was developed in the period between 1998 and 2002 as part of Paulo Pinheiro Paulo Pinheiro ...

(UMLi) developed as part of his PhD work at the Information Management Group at the University of Manchester. Pinheiro is a co-author of the Provenance Markup Language (PML) originally developed at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinheiro, Paulo 1967 births Living people People from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian computer scientists Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States Alumni of the University of Manchester Stanford University alumni Brazilian mathematicians United States Department of Energy National Laboratories personnel University of Texas at El Paso faculty