Bio and CV

Bio

Edson Cordeiro do Valle is currently Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering Department at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He founded VRTech Industrial Technologies Company after receiving his MSc, where he worked for 8 years where and contributed in authorship of several software in the area of simulation and optimization. After this period, he worked as Adjunct Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG after receiving his PhD from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). After this period, he applied for UFRGS and joined the professor staff in 2017. In 2014 he was awarded with UFBA's Invertor Award. His research interests lie in computer aided process engineering (CAPE) and include flowsheet simulation, optimization, data reconciliation, gross error detection, industrial statistics and computer vision applied to Chemical Engineering.

Education

Ph.D. 2013, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, Advisors: Argimiro Resende Secchi and Ricardo de Araújo Kalid).
M.S. 2005, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Advisors: Argimiro Resende Secchi and Jorge Trierweiler).
B.S. 2002, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).