Jorge Stolfi

Who is Jorge Stolfi?

Jorge Stolfi is a full professor of computer science at the State University of Campinas, working in computer vision, image processing, splines and other function approximation methods, graph theory, computational geometry, and several other fields. According to the ISI Web Of Science, as of 2010 he was the most highly cited computer scientist in Brazil.

Jorge Stolfi was born in Vila Carrão, a suburb of São Paulo. His parents had immigrated to Brazil from the Veneto region of Italy only two years earlier, and so he spoke Venetian as his first language. He obtained an Engineering degree in Electronics and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of São Paulo. From 1979 to 1988 he was a student of Leo Guibas at Stanford University, where he got a Ph.D in Computer Science. He had a CNPq grant from 1979 to 1983, then a research internship at Xerox PARC until 1985, and also at the DEC Systems Research Center until 1988. After obtaining his Ph.D. he became a Research Engineer at SRC.

In 1992 he returned to Brazil to take a position at the Computer Science Department of the University of Campinas, which later became the university's Institute of Computing.