An Overview of PUCRS Research in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation

11 febbraio 2015
February 11, 2015

Time: 10am-11am
Location: Meeting Room Levico, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico "Fabio Ferrari" (Building Povo 2), via Sommarive 9 - Povo, Trento

Categories: Machine Learning

Speaker:

  • Rodrigo Coelho Barros
    PUCRS, Brasil

Abstract:
This informal talk summarizes part of the recent research done in the Business Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Group (GPIN) in the topics of Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning. GPIN is one of the research labs located in the School of Informatics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil, and it is currently leaded by Profs Rodrigo Barros and Duncan Ruiz, who are responsible for supervising around 15 graduate students in the development and application of intelligence-based solutions to a variety of application domains.

About the Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Coelho Barros obtained his BSc in Computer Science from Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel, Pelotas, Brazil, 2007), his MSc in Computer Science from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2009), and his PhD in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP, São Carlos, Brazil, 2013). He was a visiting research assistant at the University of Kent, UK, from August 2012 to July 2013, where he worked with machine learning and data mining topics under the supervision of Dr. Alex A. Freitas. Dr. Barros has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in the areas of machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, and evolutionary computation, which are his main research interests. He is currently finishing his first book on decision trees, which will be published by Springer in 2015. He received 4 best-paper awards from leading conferences, as well as an award for outstanding MSc dissertation from PUCRS in 2009. He also received the 2013 best doctoral thesis in Computer Science award from the Brazilian Computer Society in July 2014, and the best doctoral thesis in Computer Science award from the Brazilian research agency CAPES, the latter being the most prestigious academic award for outstanding doctoral theses in Brazil.
Dr. Barros joined the Faculty of Informatics at PUCRS in February 2014 as an Associate Professor to lead the machine learning research in the Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC-PUCRS). Currently, he co-leads the Business Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Group (GPIN) with Dr. Ruiz, working in machine learning and data mining topics.

Contact Person Regarding this Talk: Vincenzo D'Andrea, vincenzo.dandrea [at] unitn.it