Hélio Pedrini is currently a professor in the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas, Brazil. He was an associate professor at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, from July 2000 to March 2008. He worked for Research and Development Center (CPqD) at Brazilian Telecommunications (Telebrás) company, from March 1987 to December 1995.
He was a visiting scholar at the following institutions: School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, from January 2016 to December 2016; Digital Imaging Research Centre at Kingston University, London, United Kingdom, from December 2014 to February 2015; Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from December 2013 to February 2014; Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, USA, from September 2005 to August 2006.