Current Positions
- Professor of Engineering (Professor Titular), UFPE
- CNPq Research Fellow in Engineering (Rank 1C)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Communication and Information Systems
Areas of Expertise
- Low-complexity Algorithms
- Approximation Theory
- Signal and Image Processing
- Probability and Random Processes
Research Group
Scientific Societies
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (Senior member)
- Associação Brasileira de Estatística, ABE (Life member)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM (Regular member)
Curriculum Vitae
- CV in pdf format (in English)
Mini bio
R. J. Cintra earned the Doutor degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil, where he holds a full professor position since 2021.
He has held visiting scholar appointments at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA; the Département Informatique, INSA Lyon, France; the INRIA/IRISA Lab, University of Rennes 1, France; the University of Calgary, Canada; and the Florida International University, Miami, USA.
He was a subject editor for IET Electronics Letters; and an associate editor for IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters; for IET Circuits, Devices & Systems; and for Springer Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Communication and Information Systems.
His long-term topics of research include: approximation theory for discrete transforms, theory and methods for digital signal and image processing, computationally efficient statistical algorithms, and probabilistic methods.
Editorial Boards
- 2016– Associate Editor, Journal of Communication and Information Systems
- 2018–2024 Subject Editor (Information and Communication), Electronics Letters 1 2 3 4 5
- 2017–2021 Associate Editor, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems
- 2013–2019 Associate Editor, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- 2015–2018 Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer)
Visiting Scholar
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
- Département Informatique, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, INSA, Lyon, France
- INRIA, Université de Rennes, France
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Akron, Ohio, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Florida, USA