Heitor Silvério Lopes

• Visiting scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Tennessee, USA (UTK, 2014/2015).

• Dr. Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Information Systems (Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC/GPEB, 1996)

• MSc. in Biomedical Engineering (UTFPR/ CPGEI, 1990),

• Specialist in Industrial Informatics (Pontificial Catholic University of Paraná - PUC-PR, 1987), 

• BSc. in Electronics Engineering  (UTFPR, 1984).

Current Research Interests

• Computer Vision & Deep Learning: Semantic description of videos, Automatic annotation and Soft Biometrics in security videos, Anomaly detection in videos, Natural language for semantic description of human actions in videos, Panoptic segmentation of images, appllications in the Industry 4.0.

• Data-mining: Applications to bioinformatics, open-data, big-data, and Industry 4.0

• Evolutionary Computation: Genetic Algorithms/Programming, Swarm Intelligence applied to engineering problems, bioinformatics and operations research.

• See also the LABIC - Computational Intelligence Laboratory's home-page.

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Publications

• Scopus author Id: 7006023826; ORCID code: 0000-0003-3984-1432; ResearcherID: C-4110-2013

• Click here for a list of my publications Some are available for download here or at the Google Scholar. Anyway, if you are interested in some paper not found, do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail.

• Take a fast search of my citations at:  DBLP Bibliography server, Citeseer, PubMEd, IEEE Xplore, Genetic Programming Bibliography, ACM Portal, SpringerLink, Google Scholar

• Citations (as of 2023 march, 1st):

  • Google Scholar: 6436 citations, h-index=32, i10=98

  • Scopus/Mendeley: 2991 citations, 140 papers, h-index=22

  • Web of Science/Publons: 1939 cittations, 115 papers, h-index=18

  • Research Gate: 4426 citations, h-index=30

Current Pos-doc/PhD/MsC advisees

• Pos-doc researcher: Jonas Krause (2020)

• PhD students (including co-advising): Andrei de Souza Inácio (2018), Tiago Buatin Nion da Silveira (2018), Anderson Brilhador (2020), Clayton Kossoski (2019)

• MSc students (including co-advising):  Rafael Marcelo Gomes (2023), Leonardo De Marqui Marques (2020)

• Undergraduate students (internship, graduation project): Ian Douglas Almeida Queros (2022), Daniel Silva Curi (2022), Gabriel de Freitas Passos (2022), Vinicius Kamiya Svierk (2022).

• Former advisees and their dissertations/theses (most recent in english, other in portuguese)

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Other academic activities/service

• Member of the editorial commitee and co-Editor for special issues of the Learning & Nonlinear Models journal

• Permanent member of the Task-Force & Steering Committee IEEE Latin-America Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI)

• General Chair of 2nd Latin-American Congress on Computational Intelligence & 12. Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional  (2015)

• Member of the Steering Committee of the 2015 IEEE Latin-American Congress on Computational Intelligence

• Chair of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics Symposium (CIBS) 2013

• Guest editor of special issue of Information Sciences journal on "Nature Inspired Collective Intelligence"

• Customary/sporadic reviewer for many journals: IEEE-SMC-B, IEEE-TEC,IEEE-TBME, J.Int. Syst., Inf. Sci., Braz.J.Biom.Eng., J.Braz.Comp.Soc., Informatica, others

• Member of program comitee / referee of several national and some international conferences: BRICS-CCI 2019..2013, CBIC-2019..2015, CISIM 2009, HIS 2008/2009/2011, MMAML 2011, ICGEC 2010, ICML 2010, IDC 2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013, ReConFig’08/09/10, SOCPAR 2009/2010, WSC 2010/2011, ICSCPR 2009/2010, IEEE SMC UK&RI 2008, WCISWSN 2010, ISDA 2008, IEEE SCIISP 2007, ECGP 2007, GECCO 2007, and many others that I don't remember.

• Former member of editorial board of: International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology- IJCIBSB (Inderscience), International Journal of Information Technology, Communications, and Convergence - IJITCC (Inderscience)

Scientific Societies Affiliation (current and former)

• Brazilian Society for Computational Intelligence - SBIC, since 2015

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE, since 1992.

• IEEE - Systems, Man and Cybernectics Society - SMC, since 1992.

• IEEE - Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBS, since 1992.

• Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering - SBEB, since 1994.

• Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), since 2004.

• European Chapter on Metaheuristics, since 2004.

• Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, since 2005

Lectures

• Current undergraduate courses (in both, 1st & 2nd semesters): Introduction to Modeling and Learning, Integration Workshop #3

• Current graduate courses:   Deep Learning (summer/2023), Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery  (winter/2023), Evolutionary Computation (summer-fall/2020) 

• Past graduate courses: Applied Computational Intelligence, Data Mining for Bioinformatics, Parallel Computing, Metaheuristics, Bioinformatics, Reconfigurable Computing, Pattern Recognition, Topics in Artificial Intelligence

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hslopes  at  utfpr  dot  edu  dot  br 

Heitor Silvério Lopes
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR, Campus Curitiba
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e Informática Industrial - CPGEI
Av. 7 de setembro, 3165, Bloco D, 3^o andar
80230-901 - Curitiba (PR), BRAZIL
Telephone: +55-41-3310-4694 (office) or +55-41-3310-4697 (lab.)
Fax: +55-41-3310-4683

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Last update: 12-ago-2023