Marcilio Carlos Pereira de Souto

Marcilio C. P. de Souto received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science, respectively, in 1992 and 1995 from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) - Brazil, and the Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Imperial College, London (UK), in 1999. He was an associate professor at UFRN. He spent one year as a visiting researcher at the Department of Computational Biology of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany. Recently, he was a visiting professor at UFPE. At the moment, he works as professeur at the Université d'Orléans (France). He is a senior member of the IEEE. Dr. de Souto, so far, have published more than 10 papers in journals and more than 50 papers in international conferences. Fourteen M.Sc. theses and two Ph.D. dissertations have been completed under his supervision. His main research topic is Machine Learning, with focus on Cluster Analysis, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, and Bioinformatics.

possui graduação em Ciência da Computação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte --- UFRN --- (1991), mestrado em Ciência da Computação pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco --- UFPE --- (1995) e doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica --- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1999), Londres, Inglaterra. Foi professor adjunto da UFRN, Departamento de Informática e Matemática Aplicada (DIMAp). Passou um ano, como pós-doutorando, no âmbito de um projeto Probral (CAPES/DAAD), no Departamento de Biologia Computacional do Instituto Max Planck de Genética Molecular, Berlim, Alemanha. Recentemente, foi professor visitante no Centro de Informática (CIn) da UFPE. Atualmente, é professor titular da Universidade de Orléans. É senior member do IEEE. Sua principal área de pesquisa é Aprendizado de Máquina: Análise de Agrupamentos (Cluster Analysis), Bioinformática e Sistemas Híbridos Inteligentes.