Bachelor in Mathematics from UNESP and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from ITA. He was a professor at Unesp from 1992 to 2002. He was the Program Director at Unip between 2003 and 2004. Since 2004, he has been a full-time professor at Insper, linked to the area of information systems and financial market. He was a project coordinator supported by Fapesp and an evaluator for MEC.

He is an ad hoc consultant for Fapesp and was an ad hoc consultant for CNPq. He has been a guest professor of the graduate program in Electrical Engineering at ITA since 2004. He was the treasurer of the Brazilian Society of Automation (SBA) from 2004 to 2006.

He is the author of the book Financial Market: Programming and Dynamic Solutions with Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and VBA (two editions by Érica publishing house), and the book Abrupt Changes in the Financial Market: Models, Methods, and Predictions (Érica publishing house). By Blucher publishing house, he is the author of the book Risk Analysis in Financial Applications (2017) and PYTHON AND THE FINANCIAL MARKET (2021).