Full Professor at the Eletronic Engineering Department of UFMG, with Bachelors and Masters at ITA and PhD in Eletric Engineering at the Nayoga University.


Hani Camille Yehia holds the degrees of Electronics Engineer (ITA), Master of Electronics and Computer Engineering (ITA) and Doctor of Electrical Engineering (Nagoya University, Japan). He was a researcher at the ATR laboratories (Japan). He is currently a full professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He coordinated the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, the Graduate Council of the UFMG School of Engineering and the INOVA-UFMG (Business Incubator). Also, he was a resident professor at the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies at UFMG, and was coordinator of the Undergraduate Course in Electrical Engineering. He is the current coordinator of the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at UFMG and of CEFALA (Center for Studies of Speech, Acoustics, Language and Music), developing research on audiovisual production and perception of speech and music. In addition, he participates in the coordination of CEMECH (Center for Studies of Movement, Expression and Human Behavior), and CTPMag (Center for Technology and Research in Magnetoresonance). In his work, Hani Yehia seeks to combine basic research in the fields of physics, neuroscience, linguistics and music with applied research in audiovisual coding, recognition and synthesis of speech and music.