Miguel Rocha

Auxiliar Professor Informatics Department University of Minho Tel: +351 253 604435 Fax: +351 253 604471 email: mrocha@di.uminho.pt http://www.di.uminho.pt/~mpr

Miguel Rocha is currently Auxiliar Professor (with PhD), holding a permanent position at the Informatics Departament of the University of Minho, teaching subjects related to Bioinformatics, Natural Computation, Data Mining/ Machine Learning and also introductory programming / computing courses. He got his PhD in 2004, with a thesis on the Optimization of Neural Networks using Evolutionary Computation. He is a member and was vice-director (2005-2009) of the Center of Computing Sciences and Technologies where he conducts research on the areas of Data Mining/ Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation and Bioinformatics He was the PI of MOBioPro - Modeling and Optimization of Biological Processes, funded by the Portuguese Fundation for Science and Technology . He is the author of a number of publications in international conferences and journals

In terms of research keeps active collaborations in projects with the following researchers (among others):

• Rui Mendes, Pedro Sousa, Dep. Informática, Univ. Minho
• Isabel Rocha , Eugénio Ferreira, Dep. Eng. Biológica, Univ. Minho
• Paulo Cortez, Dep. Sistemas Informação, Univ. Minho
• Miguel Rio, Univ. College London (UCL)
• Florentino Riverola, Univ. Vigo
• Luis M. Rocha , Univ. Indiana / Instituto Gulbenkian para a Ciência
• Pierre Baldi , Univ. California Irvine (UCI)