Full Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Eng. School, University of Minho, Portugal. He is also Assistant Director of the of the ALGORITMI Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal.

Current research interests:  Business Analytics: Decision Support Systems, Data  Mining, Data Science and Forecasting. Artificial Intelligence (AI): Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation and AI Applications.

Some professional highlights:

• Opening keynote lecture at EurAI Advanced Course on AI, TAILOR Summer School 2022, UPC, Barcelona: "Explainable Artificial Intelligence using Sensitivity Analysis and Visualization Techniques: Introduction, Methods and Application Examples". 

• Co-author of more than 200 publications in international scientific journals and conferences.

• Author of the rminer R package (version 1.4.6, 8/2020).

• Donated several datasets (Wine Quality, Bank Marketing, Forest Fires).

• Springer book: Modern Optimization with R, 2nd edition, 2021. 

• Portuguese book on Intelligent Data Analysis with Java (FCA).

• Associate Editor of the journals: Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems.

• Video interviews (in Portuguese) about Spam Email: RTP2, Porto Canal, UMinho.

• Affiliate Researcher at EPMQ IT CCG, DTx and Prochild.

• Short CV (via ORCID) and Long CV (via CienciaVitae).

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