Dr Andr茅 Pimenta Freire
IAS Open Programme
Federal University of Lavras
Andr茅 Pimenta Freire is an associate professor at the Federal University of Lavras in the Department of Computer Science. His research is focused on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems, with emphasis on Accessibility, Digital Government, Digital Health and e-learning. He holds a Research Fellowship by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) at level PQ-2 (2022 - now).
He works at the ALCANCE - Research Group on Accessibility, Usability and Computational Linguistics, and is a member of the Graduate Programmes of Computer Science and Public Administration. André has been involved in several scientific bodies, including the Special Interest Group of Information Systems (2017-2021) and Human-Computer Interaction (2020-now) of the Brazilian Computer Society, and Brazilian representative of the IFIP TC13 group on Human-Computer Interaction (2022 - now).
André has published a number of research papers on journals on conferences related to Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility and Information Systems. He has also served in programme committees for conferences and reviewer for a number of international journals. He has been principal investigator and co-principal investigator in a number of research projects funded by Brazilian research councils and governmental agencies, involving Brazilian and foreign investigators.