Mylène C. Q. de Farias
e-mail: mylene@iplab.ece.ucsb.edu

  Objective: Summer internship in the field of signal/image processing and/or image quality, which will complement my coursework and research goals at UCSB.

EDUCATION
Philosophy of Doctor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara   Emphasis: Image Processing, Digital Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Signal Compression, Multirate Digital Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Stochastic Processes. Current interests: Text segmentation, image quality/ analysis, image/ video processing.	(1999 -present)
Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,  State University of Campinas (Unicamp) Emphasis: Communications, Digital Signal Processing and Image compression.   Thesis: "Application of Wavelets in Image Compression"	Brazil, June 1998
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering,  Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Emphasis: Communications, Cryptography and Information Theory.	Brazil, January 1995
COMPUTER SKILLS   Languages: Fluent: C,  Pascal, HTML              Familiarity: C++, Perl. Software: MATLAB, LaTeX, Excel, Microsoft Word and Scientific Workplace. Operating Systems: Unix, Windows 95, 98, DOS.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Graduate student researcher CPqD/Telebrás (Brazil)      Undergraduate student researcher Laboratory of Communications, Electrical Engineering Department,  Federal University of Pernambuco.     Undergraduate student researcher, Laboratory of Optoeletronics, Physics Department,  Federal University of Pernambuco.	1996-1998   1993-1995   1991-1993
AWARDS   Ph.D. Scholarship, CAPES (Brazil)   M.S. Scholarship, CAPES (Brazil)   Graduate Researcher Scholarship, CPqD/Telebrás (Brazil)   Undergraduate Researcher (Scientific Initiaion Program),  CNPqD (Brazil)	1998 - present 1995-1998   1996-1998   1992-1995
WORK EXPERIENCE Research Engineer, Center for Telecommunications Research  and Development, (CPqD) of Telebras.	October/97 - June/98.