André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho

Positions

• Assistant Professor (Hired in the University Program “Young Talents”), Department of Computer Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil,, from 08/94 to 12/95.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil, from 12/95 to 06/98.
• Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, from 01/2000 to 12/2000. (on leave from USP in this period)
• Associate Professor (with habillitation), Departament of Computer Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil, from 06/98 (on leave from 01/2000 to 10/01/2001).
• Visiting Researcher, Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis, LIAAD, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from October 2005 to September 2006.
• Full Professor, Departament of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo, from 09/2006.
• Visiting Professor, School of Computing, University of Kent, UK from March 2010 to February 2011.

Editorial Boards

• Machine Learning (ISSN: 0885-6125), Springer
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (ISSN: 0952-1976), Elsevier
• International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (ISSN: 1469-0268), World Scientific
• International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (ISSN: 1448-5869), IOS Press
• International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation (ISSN: 1758-0366), Inderscience
• Intelligent Data Analysis (ISSN: 1088-467X), IOS Press
• Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal (ISSN: 2255-2863), University of Salamanca

Supervisions

Current supervisions:

Past student supervisions:

Projects

• Bioinformatics
  • microRNA identification
  • Gene expression analysis for cancer diagnosis

• Biometrics
  • Keystroke dynamic
  • Walking pattern
• Environment
  • Intrusion detection
  • Water quality control
• Finance
  • Fraud detection
  • Non-paying customer modelling
• Health care
  • Elderly fall prediction
  • Activity classification
  • Sport data mining
  • Alzheimer and Dementia diagnosis
  • Parkinson diagnosis
  • Machine Learning for drug design
• Industry
  • Wood Quality Inspection (Neurowood)

Publications

List of Papers

Books

Written

Edited

Talks and Tutorials

Invited Talks

• Hybrid Neural Networks, Computing and Information Science Department, University of Guelph, Canada, March 1999.
• Applying Machine Learning to Problems in Molecular Biology, INRIA- LORIA, Nancy, France, July 2003.
• Utilização de Inteligência Artificial em Bioinformática (in Portuguese) – Using Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, July 2003.
• Classificação de Tumores Utilizando Inteligência Artificial (in Portuguese) – Tumor Classification Using Artificial Intelligence, Hemocentro Foundation, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, October 2003.
• Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Bioinformatics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, December 2003.
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2003
• Datamining, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trhondheim, Norway, September 2004.
• Using Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, February 2005.
• Optimization Techniques based on Biology, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, April 2006.
• Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics, Central Queensland University (CQU) Rockhampton, Australia, November 2007.
• Bioinspired Machine Learning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, June, 2008.
• Non-Trivial Classification Problems, Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BISC´2008), São Luís, Brazil, June 2008.
• Advanced Classification Problems, Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Canada, September, 2009.
• Meta-learning for Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics Group, University of Regensburg, Germany, October 2010.
• Using Metalearning for Technique Recommendation, World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2011), Mumbai, India, December 2011,
• Technique recommendation using Metalearning, 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), Natal, Brazil, 2012.
• Algorithm recommendation using metalearning, University of Regensburgo, Germany, 2013.
• Non-Trivial Classification Problems, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 2013.
• Non-Trivial Classification Problems, IBM Research Center, Brazil, 2014.
• Challenging classification tasks, Invited Talk, HAIS Conference, Spain, 2014.
• Challenging Machine Learning classification tasks, Universitet of Orlean, France, 2014.
• A change is gonna come, University of Regensburgo, Germany, 2014.
• Using autonomous UAVs for precision agriculture, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 2015.
• Autonomous UAVs for pesticide application to crop fields, Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM), 2015,
• The use of autonomous UAVs to improve pesticide application in crop fields. Workshop Mobile Data Mining, Porto, Portugal, June 13th 2016.
• Participation in a debate about the Artificial Intelligence movie Ex-machina, directed by Alex Garland, Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) and Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (Brazilian Academy of Sciences) to celebrate 100 years of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Brazilian Academy of Sciences), Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 22nd, 2016.

Tutorials / short courses

• Designing Neural Networks for Credit Analysis, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN'99, Washington, USA, July 1999.
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, ASAI 2001, Argentine Conference on Computer Science and Operational Research, 30 JAIIO - 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2001.
• Inteligência Artificial (in Portuguese) – Artificial Intelligence, I Brazilian School on Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics, São Carlos, Brazil, December 2001.
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Congreso Latino Americano de Sistemas, Informatica, Telematica, Electronica y Computacion, CLASSITEC’2002, Arequipa, Peru, July 2002.
• AI and Bioinformatics, Summer School, University of Burgos, Spain, July 2003.
• Técnicas de Aprendizado de Máquina em Problemas de Biologia Molecular (in Portuguese) – Machine Learning Tecnhniques in Problems of Molecular Biology, XXI Brazilian Congress on Computer, SBC'2003, Campinas, Brazil, August 2003 (with M. Souto, Lorena, A., Delbem, A.).
• Ana Lúcia Bazzan and André Carvalho: Computational Intelligence, II Brazilian Workshop on Bioinformatics, WOB 2003, Macaé, Brazil, December 2003. (with Delbem, A., G. Telles, E. Simões and R. Romero).
• Computação Bioinspirada (in Portuguese) – Bioinspired Computing, XXII Brazilian Congress on Computer, SBC'2004, Salvador, Brazil, August 2004.
• Datamining in Bioinformatics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trhondheim, Norway, September, 2004.
• Bioinspired Machine Learning, XVI European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML´05) – Porto, Portugal – October 2005.
• Bioinspired Intelligent Systems, VI Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS´06)– Auckland, New Zealand – December 2006.
• Datamining in Bioinformatics VII International Conference on Intelligent Systems Analysis, (ISDA´07) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – October 2007. With (Faceli, K. and Lorena, A. C.,).
• Datamining in Bioinformatics Brazilian School on Bioinformatics – Santo Andre, Brazil – August 2008. (with André Carvalho, Faceli, K. and Lorena, A. C.,).
• Datamining in Bioinformatics, Workshop Brazil-France – Recife, Brazil – October 2009.
• Evolutionary Algorithms for Clustering, 4th Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems Workshop (HAIS’09), Salamanca, Spain, June 2009. (withu Eduardo Hruschka, Ricardo Campello).
• Datamining in Bioinformatics, Part of the course "Técnicas de biologia molecular aplicadas à produção animal", funded by CBAB/CABBIO– São Carlos, Brazil – July 2009.
• Meta-aprendizado (in Portuguese) – Bioinspired Computing, XXII Brazilian Congress on Computer, SBC'2011, Natal, Brazil, 6 hours, August 2011. (with Bruno Feres de Souza, Ricardo Prudêncio).
• Metalearning, 13th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI 2012), La Plata, Argentina, 5 hours, August 2012.
• Introduction to Machine Learning. 4th Symposium on Knowledge Discovery, Mining and Learning (KDMiLe),Petropolis, Brazil, October, 13th 2015.
• Big Data Stream Mining. ECML-PKDD Summer School on Data Sciences for Big Data - Resource Aware Data Mining , Porto, Portugal, September 3th, 2015. (with Gama, João; Bifet, A.,)
• Machine Learning. Motorola Research & Development, Campinas, Brazil, January, 29th 2016.