José graduated in Electrical Engineering from EPUSP in 1979. MSc (1983), PhD (1988), Post-doctorate (Livre-Docência, 1996) in Electrical Engineering from the same university.

Followed specialization courses at Ecole Supériéure d'Eléctricité (SUPELEC, Paris), Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) and University of California at Berkeley (USA).

Worked as visiting professor at the Humboldt Universität (Berlin, DDR) and at Dresden Technische Universität (Dresden, DDR). Coordinated several research and development projects with European and American companies as, for example, AMI Inc., AMS GmH, European Silicon Solutions - ES2, Ericsson Telecommunications.

José is currently Associate Professor at the Communications and Control Engineering Department of the EPUSP, where he is in charge of optical communications and high-speed network courses.

He was the coordinator of the Signals and Communications Laboratory of the same department (2007-2008) and is the leader of the Network QoS Management research group. His research interests include end-to-end QoS assurance, traffic generation and estimation, QoS-aware multi-constraint hop-by-hop routing, bayesian-based multiuser detection, fault-tolerant and power-aware ad-hoc networks, adaptive mobile learning environments. He is the author of the book Projetos de Sistemas de Comunicações Ópticas (Ed. Manole, 2005) and over 80 scientific papers. He is the Brazilian partner in the CE funded CASAGRAS2 FP-7 project.