
If the deal goes well, an old partnership will be recreated. According to information from Globo Esporte, the European team would be willing to pay 15 million euros for João, around 75 million reais. The scouts of the German team are already in Brazil and will follow the two games of the final of the Copa do Brasil, in addition to the match against Atlético Mineiro, in the Brasileirão. His CURRICULUM VITAE is available in portuguese and in English at the CNPq-Lattes plataform.Now, João Gomes should receive an offer from Bayer Leverkusen, which has already sent Club representatives to keep an eye on the steering wheel. In SIBGRAPI 2020, he was one of the Invited Speakers. He was a general co-chair of SIBGRAPI in 2017 and in 2019, and he was the SIBGRAPI 2007 program co-chair. He has been elected for three times the president of the Special Interest Group of Computer Graphics and Image Processing (CEGRAPI) of the SBC (2006-2007, 2013-2015, 2015-2017). He is also a member of SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and of the SBMAC (Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics). Hélio Lopes is an associate editor of the journals: Computers & Graphics and IEICE Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA). He also taught data science, advanced mathematical and computational on-site courses for GLOBO, PETROBRAS, BANCO DO BRASIL, BNDES and VALE. He also did some consulting works for other companies like IPIRANGA, IRB-BRASIL RE, MONGERAL AEGON, GLOBO, BIZBANK, SHELL, BR DISTRIBUIDORA, PRODERJ and BRADESCO SEGUROS. Since 1992, he has been applying his research to the development of computer systems for PETROBRAS, mainly in the area of reservoir characterization and in seismic modeling and analysis. His research has been partially sponsored by grants from CNPq, FAPERJ, CAPES and FINEP.

The majority of his publications appears at the MENDELEY, ORCID, DBLP and at the ResearchGate portal. Hélio Lopes has h-index = 16 on the SCOPUS database, h-index = 14 on the Web of Science database, and h-index = 24 at Google Scholar Citations. He is also a co-coordinator of the GALGOS Laboratory (optimization algorithms for decision making) and a colaborator of the IDEIAS Laboratory (computer-human interactions, visualization and user-experiences).

He is the principal investigator of the DASLAB (Data Science Laboratory) and of the ExACTa initiative (Agile Experimentation.

He has also interest in promoting Innovation Programs for Industrial Digital Transformation. I n 2017 he received the Business Process Intelligence Challenge (BPIC) Best Report Award at the Academic Category. In the present, he is particularly interested in Data Science, Machine Learning and Process Mining. He likes to develop and to apply advanced mathematical and computational techniques to solve real-world problems that have engineering, scientific and industrial relevance. He worked from 1996 to 2011 in the Department of Mathematics / PUC-Rio as an (Assistant / Associate) Professor, and for six months of 2001 in the Computer Science Department at PURDUE University as a Visiting Scholar. All of these degrees were obtained at PUC-Rio.

He has a Doctoral degree in Mathematics (1996), a Master's degree in Informatics (1992) and a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering (1990). Hélio Lopes is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro ( PUC-Rio ).
