Department of Communications - DECOM 

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - FEEC 

State University of Campinas- Unicamp

• Name: Mylène Christine Queiroz de Farias
• Birth date: 26 of October , 1971.
• Place of birth: João Pessoa - PB - Brazil.
• Address: Av. Anchieta, 369 - ap.62 - 
     Campinas - SP- Brazil - 
     CEP:13015-101
• e-mail: mylene@decom.fee.unicamp.br

Master Degree 

Department of Communications - DECOM 

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering -FEEC 

State University of Campinas- Unicamp 

MSc. Electrical Enginnering . 

Master Thesis Title: "Applications of the Wavelet Transform in Image Compression". 

I received a scholarship from the Brazilian Ministry of Education Agency - CAPES.

Department of Electronics and Systems - DES 

Federal University of Pernambuco -UFPE 

BSc. Electrical Engineering - Electronics
 

Scientific Initiation - This program gives scholarships to undergraduate students, so that they can develop a work in an specific area of research with the help of an advisor. I had three of these scholarships : 

• Title: "Instrumentation of a Laboratory of Photoelectronics" 
• Advisor: Prof. Dr. Anderson Stevens L.Gomes - Physics Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco. 
• Period: January, 1991 - August, 1992.
• Title: "Probability Distribution of the Diffie-Hellman Cryptographic Key" 
• Advisor: Prof. Dr. Valdemar Cardoso da Rocha Jr. -Department of Electronics and Systems in the Federal University of Pernambuco. 
• Period: Agosto, 1992 - August, 1993.
• Title: "Applications of Source Coding in Cryptography" 
• Advisor: Prof. Dr. Valdemar Cardoso da Rocha Jr. - Department of Electronics and Systems in the Federal University of Pernambuco. 
• Period: August, 1993 - December, 1994.
 

• Computer Vision
• grade: B
• Prof: Prof. Dr. José Alencar Lotufo
• Stochastic Processes in Engineering
• grade: A
• Prof: Prof. Dr. Michel Yacoub and Prof. Dr. João Marcos Romano.
• Digital Signal Processing
• grade: A
• Prof: Prof. Dr. Fábio Violaro.
• Topics in Computer Engineering : Compression of Signals
• grade: B
• Prof: Prof. Dr. Max Costa and Prof. Dr. Dalton Soares.
• Digital Random Signal Processing and Analysis 
• grade: A
• Prof: Prof. Dr. Amauri Lopes and Prof. Dr. João Marcos Romano.
• Introduction to Coding and Information Theory 
• grade: A
• Prof: Prof. Dr. Walter Borelli
• Special Studies I
• grade: A
• Prof: Prof: Prof. Dr. Amauri Lopes
• Special Studies II
• grade: A
• Prof: Prof: Prof. Dr. Amauri Lope
Avarage Coefficient : 3.7333 (out of 4.0000)
 

• Summer School of Physics
• Realized in the Physics Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco.
• An Introduction to Optoelectronics
• Period: August - December, 1991
• Prof: Prof. Dr. Anderson Stevens L. Gomes
 

• "Applications of the Wavelet Transform in Compression of Images" ( Master's Thesis, DECOM-FEEC-Unicamp, to be presented in February, 1997).
• " Introduction to the Wavelet Transform"- Technical Report - CPqD - Telebrás - contract n. 387/90.
• "The Applications of Wavelet Transform in Image Compression" - Technical Report - CPqD - Telebrás - contract n. 387/90.
• "Applications of the Wavelet Transform in Two-Layer Coding" - Technical Report - CPqD - Telebrás - contract n. 387/90.
• "Using Wavelets to Analize Fractal Signals" 

• Mother Language : Portuguese
• English: good.
• Certificate of fluency by the University of Michighan (December, 1995).
• Toefl : 633.
• French: Basic course.
• Spanish: Basic course.