Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from PUC-Rio and expertise in multimedia systems and computer networks. He was a Visiting Professor at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (FAU/Fraunhofer IIS) in 2022–2023. He co-edited ITU-T Recommendation H.761 (“NCL and Ginga-NCL”) and has contributed to several international standards, having chaired ITU-T working groups for over a decade. Since 2015, he has coordinated the Application Coding Working Group of the Brazilian Digital TV System Forum (SBTVD), where he also serves as editor of ABNT standards for TV 2.5 and TV 3.0. His research bridges academic innovation and standardization, with a focus on application-oriented broadcasting, second-screen integration, audience measurement, and privacy-aware media platforms for next-generation digital TV.