GE Vernova Advanced Research Center

Lecture by Radislav A. Potyrailo, Principal Scientist at GE Vernova Advanced Research Center

Biography:

Radislav A. Potyrailo is a Principal Scientist at GE Vernova Advanced Research Center.  He received an Optoelectronics degree from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1985) and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1998).  At GE, Dr. Potyrailo has been directing programs on designs of physical transducers, materials with multi-response mechanisms to ambient environments, data analytics, and system engineering of microanalytical instrumentation.  His passion is to bring innovative sensing systems from laboratory feasibility studies to field validations and commercialization.  Dr. Potyrailo has been serving as a technical lead on GE R&D programs transitioned to GE businesses or GE partners for commercialization. Examples include optical multi-parameter chemical sensor for GE Water, wireless gas sensors for GE Oil & Gas, multi-parameter oil sensor for GE Renewable Energy, and GE Ventures start-up company on radio-frequency sensors.

Dr. Potyrailo is the Chair of the Device Working Group of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group and the North America Regional Chair of International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing.

Dr. Potyrailo summarized most of his innovations in 150+ granted US Patents and publications (Google Scholar h-index 50+). He is a recipient of the Prism Award by SPIE/Photonics Media (2011) and the AMA Innovation Award (2021).  Dr. Potyrailo is SPIE Fellow (2011) and recent IEEE Fellow (2023), covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum of his sensors. Dr. Potyrailo has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council for the period 2024-2026.

MackGraphe

Lecture by Lúcia Akemi Miyazato Saito, researcher in the field of photonics at the Mackenzie Institute for Research in Graphene and Nanotechnologies (MackGraphe).

Biography:

 Lúcia Akemi Miyazato Saito is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (PQ-2). Holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Centro Universitário da FEI (2001), and Master's and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2006 and 2012). Currently, she is a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher in the field of photonics at the Mackenzie Institute for Research in Graphene and Nanotechnologies (MackGraphe). From 2021 to 2025, she served as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PPGEEC) at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She has experience in the field of telecommunications, with an emphasis on the development of devices for optical communications, working primarily on research into graphene-based sensors and electro-optic modulators, ultrashort pulse generation in Erbium-doped fiber lasers, and Raman optical amplifiers.

UFSC

Lecture by Guilherme Brasil Pintarelli, a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering at UFSC.

Biography:

Guilherme Brasil Pintarelli i completed his undergraduate (2016), master's (2018), and doctoral (2022) degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). He undertook a sandwich undergraduate program at Brunel University (London, UK; 15 months, 2014–2015). During his undergraduate studies, he was a member of the Formula SAE UFSC team, an organizer of the UFSC Electrical Engineering Academic Week (SAEEL), and a recipient of an undergraduate research scholarship at the Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IEB-UFSC; approx. 3 years). He worked as a hardware and product development consultant for five companies (focusing on physiological signal sensors and industrial sensors in Brazil and the USA). He worked as a design engineer for industrial electrical installations and served as a consultant and advisor for the Electrical Engineering Junior Enterprise (C2E-UFSC). He is an IEEE member and served as the IEEE NTC LATAM representative in 2021. He was a substitute professor at UFSC and is currently an Assistant Professor (Level A) in the Department of Control, Automation, and Computer Engineering at UFSC Blumenau, while also conducting research at IEB-UFSC. He is a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering at UFSC (PPGEEL/UFSC, CAPES rating 7) and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Campinas (FEEC/UNICAMP, CAPES rating 7). His areas of expertise include: smart sensors; pulsed power and pulsed electric fields (PEF); electrical dispersion; bioimpedance; instrumentation; product and service design; embedded systems; industrial electronics; electrical installations (MV, LV, and lightning protection systems); and programmable logic controllers (PLC). signal processing; innovation and intellectual property.

UNICAMP

Lecture by Marco Roberto Cavallari,  Professor of the  Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).

Biography:

Since 2022, Marco Roberto Cavallari, Leader and Founder of the Renewable Energies and Storage Technologies Group (GERAM) has been a Professor Doctor II, MS-3.2, at the DEEB - Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He teaches electrical circuits, analog and digital electronics, digital signal processing, power electronics, flexible electronics, organic photovoltaics, and green hydrogen.

UNICAMP

 Lecture by Yuri Alexandre Meyer, Professor (PhD level) of the Faculty of Technology of the State University of Campinas (FT/UNICAMP).

Biography:

He is currently an Assistant Professor (full-time) at the Faculty of Technology of the State University of Campinas (FT/UNICAMP). He holds a Post-doctorate, a PhD, and a Master's degree in Technology (specializing in Materials Science) from FT/UNICAMP, as well as an undergraduate degree in Physics from the State University of Campinas. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted research on carbon nanotubes using molecular dynamics—supported by a FAPESP scholarship and supervised by Prof. Dr. Vitor R. Coluci—and on group geometry and tensor fields under the supervision of the Bulgarian mathematician Prof. Dr. Yuri D. Bozhkov. [RESEARCH]: He is a co-leader of the Complex Systems Engineering Group (GESC), where he develops a research program dedicated to Complex Systems Engineering as an approach to understanding, designing, and governing adaptive sociotechnical systems.