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André Luiz Brandão graduated in Computer Science - Bachelor - at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). He completed his master's degree (2006) at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and doctorate (2013) at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), both in ​​Computer Science. For his doctoral dissertation, he received first place in the Best Doctoral Thesis in the Technical Innovation Category of the XIII Brazilian Symposium on Digital Games and Entertainment (SBGames 2014). During his doctorate, he researched at the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Still, as a student at UFF, he created the Jecripe initiative (jecripe.wordpress.com) which aims to develop games for special people and already has applications available for free download. Received the Culture Award - New Media Category, Rio de Janeiro State Department of Culture (2011), Citizen Technology Award Best Inclusion Project for People with TDG - Stimulus Game for Preschool Down Syndrome Children, Guarulhos City Hall (2012) and Falling Walls Lab 2015 winner São Paulo - 1st Place for Breaking the wall of Helping people with games. He joined UFABC as an adjunct professor in 2014, as part of the Computer Science Bachelor degree. At UFABC, he was Deputy Head of the International Affairs Office from 2017 to 2018, was Coordinator of the Center for Educational Technologies (NTE), in 2018 which later became the Languages and Technologies Educational Unit ​(Netel), where he continued to coordinate until 2021. In 2022, he started to be eventual substitute of the Head of the Language Division of Netel. Areas of interest are Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science in Education, Computer Vision and Digital Games.