 Rui de Figueiredo

Rui José Pacheco de Figueiredo (19 April 1929 – 22 July 2013) was an electrical engineer, mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and applied mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.de Figueiredo was born on 19 April 1929 in Panjim, Goa where he grew up the second of four boys.