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Associate Professor, level 2, Department of Electronics and the Graduate Program on Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics (CPGEI), Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), campus of Curitiba Founder and research leader, Bioinformatics Laboratory Researcher of Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), level 2 (since 2003) <-that's what I looked like, more than 15 years ago

Professional Degrees

• Electrical Engineer (UTFPR, 1984), Industrial Informatics Specialist (Pontificial Catholic University of Paraná - PUC-PR, 1987), Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering (UTFPR/ CPGEI, 1990), Doctor in Electrical Engineering - Information Systems (Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC/GPEB, 1996)

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics:
  • Computational methods for protein structure prediction and folding, sequence alignment, filogeny, computacional analysis of DNA, protein classification.
• Evolutionary Computation:
  • Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Differential Evolution, PSO and ACO applications to engineering problems, data-mining, bioinformatics; Metaheuristics in general.
• Reconfigurable Computing:
  • Applications to complex computational problems, including bioinformatics
• High-performance computing:
  • Parallel processing in cluster and in GPU
• Biomedical Engineering (BME):
  • Medical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence applications in BME, simulation and pattern recognition of biomedical signals.
• See also the Bioinformatics Laboratory home-page.

Lectures (in portuguese)

• Current undergraduate courses: Microcontrollers, Integration Project 3
• Current graduate courses:  Evolutionary Computation, Parallel Computing, Metaheuristics, Bioinformatics
• Previous graduate courses: Reconfigurable Computing, Pattern Recognition, Communication via the Internet, Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Publications

• Click here to see a list of my publications. Some are available for download. If you are interested in some paper that is not available in electronic form, do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail and I will send you it.
• Take a fast search of my citations at:  DBLP Bibliography server, Citeseer, PubMEd, IEEE Xplore, Genetic Programming Bibliography, ACM Portal, SpringerLink, Google Scholar

Other academic activities

• 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, currently (2010): ICML, IDC, NICI, CISWSN, and many others.
• Member of editorial board of:
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology- IJCIBSB (Inderscience)
  • International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing - IJRC (Hindawi)
  • LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence - TCCI (Springer)
  • International Journal of Information Technology, Communications, and Convergence - IJITCC (Inderscience)
• Guest editor of special issue of Information Sciences journal on "Nature Inspired Collective Intelligence"

Scientific Societies Affiliation (current and former)

• 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

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