Joao Faria

openlab Summer Student, IT/UDS, from 04/07/11 to 26/08/11

Joao Faria is currently attending the Faculty of Engineering at University of Porto, Portugal.  After earning a B.Sc. in Informatics and Computer Engineering, he felt the need to continue his education by pursuing a M.Sc. Next year, he will attend Cranfield University expecting to reach this objective. Although appreciating computing in general, his main interests are image processing and parallel computing. During his stay at CERN, he is building a web platform that will allow CERN users to follow the status of several internal services. Besides his academic
work, his other interests include music, cinema and sports.