Jurandy Almeida received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP, 2004) and his M.Sc. (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) degrees in Computer Science from University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He was a visiting researcher at the Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canadá (05/2011-08/2011) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Computing, UNICAMP (12/2011-08/2013). Nowadays, he is an adjunct professor at the Institute of Science and Tecnology of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). He has developed research on Databases, Image Processing, Multimedia Systems and Computer Vision in applications of Multimedia Information Retrieval.