Troy Kohwalter
Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolTroy Kohwalter is an accomplished computer scientist and adjunct professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense with 12 years of experience spanning research, teaching, and game programming. He holds a PhD and Master’s in Computer Science from UFF, earned competitive scholarships from CAPES and CNPq, and completed a research visit at NYU with the Provenance Visualization Group. His work on provenance earned best-paper recognition at SBGames and the PGC/UFF Best Doctoral Thesis Award, reflecting a strong focus on data provenance and visualization. Troy transitioned from applied game development—contributing to an educational Unity title for pediatric cancer patients—to postdoctoral research and academic leadership. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he combines rigorous academic publication credentials with practical software development experience in interactive systems. He is known for turning complex provenance problems into usable visual tools that bridge research and real-world applications.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidade Federal Fluminense
Github Skills (17)
mod-manager10
truncate10
background-image10
ord9
visualization8
ptrace5
reproducible-research4
reproducible-science4
science4
python3
docker3
vagrant3
computational-science3
archiving3
linux2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gems-uff/prov-viewer
Mar 2014 - Jan 2020
Provenance Visualization Tool
Contributions:2 releases, 539 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 11 months
mod-managerbackground-imagetruncateprovenanceord
gems-uff/ping
Oct 2014 - Nov 2019
Provenance in Games
Contributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years 1 month
provenancegamegames
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