Wesley L. Passos, Assistant Professor
                                                    
                                                        Federal Center for Technological Education (CEFET-RJ)
                                                    
                                                    Department of Control Systems and Automation
                                                        Engineering
                                                        (COENCA-NI) 
                                                
                                                    Wesley Lobato Passos
                                                    was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1991.
                                                    He received his D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from
                                                    COPPE/UFRJ,
                                                    Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil,
                                                    in 2024.
                                                    Previously, he received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
                                                    also from COPPE/UFRJ in 2019,
                                                    and his B.Sc. in Control Systems and Automation Engineering
                                                    from the
                                                    
                                                        Federal Center for Technological Education (CEFET-RJ),
                                                    Nova Iguaçu, RJ, Brazil, in 2016.
                                                    During his undergraduate studies, he studied abroad at the
                                                    
                                                        University of Georgia (UGA), USA, as part of the
                                                    Brazilian exchange program Science without Borders.
                                                    During this period, he also conducted a summer research
                                                    project at the
                                                    
                                                        Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT),
                                                    in 2015. 
                                                    He received the Google Latin American Research Award in 2019
                                                    and 2020 for the project automatic detection of potential
                                                    Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding grounds using computer
                                                    vision and machine learning techniques.
                                                    Since 2024, he is a Professor with the
                                                    Control Systems and Automation Engineering Department,
                                                    at the
                                                    
                                                        CEFET-RJ.
                                                    He is a member of the
                                                    
                                                        Institute of Electric and Electronic
                                                        Engineers (IEEE) and
                                                    the
                                                    
                                                        Brazilian Telecommunication Society (SBrT). 
                                                    He has a background in Instrumentation, Control, and
                                                    Industrial Automation projects.
                                                    His research interests include Computer Vision,
                                                    Machine Learning, and Signal Processing.