Short Bio

UFRGS PhD student with MIT Media Lab EyeNetra co-founder / CTO
JavaFree.org co-founder

E-mail: vitor@vitorpamplona.com
Phone: + 1 (617) 318 8685
Skype: vfpamp

Vitor is finishing his PhD on Computer Science at UFRGS and holds the CTO for EyeNetra Inc, where he works on the next generation of NETRA-G and Test2Connect. Vitor engages in disruptive innovations to impact science, people and economy, all together. His thesis focuses on interactive diagnostics for human eyes through low-cost hardware apps for mobile phones (NETRA, CATRA) and acuity enhancement displays (Tailored Displays). Vitor co-founded one of the most promising young health tech startups in the US (EyeNetra, TechCrunch), one of the biggest Java virtual communities in Brazil (JavaFree), the first portuguese-speaking on-line portal for Ruby (RubyOnBr) and the first 3D game engine for feature phones (M3GE). Other previous projects include: physiologically-based models for the dynamic behavior of the pupil and iris (PLRModels), interactive retinal image assessment (RAS), low-cost retinal 3D stereo viewer (StereoRetina), user-efficient medical record systems (SETRA, SATRA), real-time photorealistic renderings (Animated Relief Impostors, Legolizer), image-based hand pose capture (IBDG), sovereign peer-to-peer connectivity (Sneer), credit card payments mobile app (PayDream), off-line activity-engaging network (Agitter), syntax-based to-do lists (FreeToDo), everything-on-memory wiki engine (Priki) and content management systems (JavaFreeCMS), object query languages for legacy systems (SnailDB), developer-friendly shader translator (HL2GLSL) and an integrated notification framework (RssNotifier), among others. Besides these, Vitor worked throughout his undergrad, 5 years of full-time corporate software engineer and architecture of enterprise resource planning and business to business software (Totall, Progressiva, Binho).

Vitor holds two US / PCT patents (NETRA, CATRA), a brazilian INPI patent (Tailored Displays), four papers as first author presented at the prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH conference (PLRModels, NETRA, CATRA, Tailored Displays), and one TEDx presentation. He is a recipient of Silver Thomas Edison Award on best new diagnostic aid of 2012; LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA 2010; Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award ($300k) 2011; Popular Science Best of What is New 2011;   MIT Ideas Award 2011; MIT Global Challenge Public Choice Award 2011; Lemelson-MIT Ideas Award 2010; and the Second Prize on the 2009 Brazilian Computer Society Masters Thesis Contest (among all areas of computer science of the 51 graduate programs in Brazil).