Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira

Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira received a degree in Electronics Engineering at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, in 1981, an MSc in Applied Computing, at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), in 1986, and a DPhil in Cognitive Science, at the University of Sussex, England, in 1994. In the beginning of his career he worked with knowledge-based artificial intelligence, mostly as a researcher at INPE, but since the early 90s he has been closer to the artificial life and cellular automata communities, doing research on computational and dynamic aspects of cellular automata, and applications of evolutionary computation. Since 2001 he has been a faculty member of the School of Computing and Informatics, at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, in São Paulo, Brazil, in a joint appointment with its Postgraduate Programme in Electrical Engineering. He currently holds research grants from FAPESP (São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support), MackPesquisa (Mackenzie Research Fund) and a Mathematica Academic Grant from Wolfram Research, supervises 2 PhD and 3 MSc students in Electrical Engineering, and 2 undergraduates in Computer Science. He is the organiser of Automata 2009: 15th Int. Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems.

[Home page: http://professor.mackenzie.br/pedrob/] Main research topics: computational and dynamical aspects of automata networks, specially cellular automata; applications of evolutionary computation; and multi-agent cellular systems. For 6 years (from 2016 until 2021), chair of IFIP WG-1.5: the working group on ''Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems'' of the Technical Committee 1, on ''Foundations of Computer Science'', of the Int. Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Holder of a research grant from CNPq Bolsa PQ (2020-2026); Brazilian coordinator of a grant from CAPES STIC-AmSud (2023-2025); and researcher of Mackenzie's CAPES PrInt project (2019-2024). Since 2001: faculty member of the School of Computing and Informatics, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, and of its Postgraduate Programme in Electrical Engineering and Computing. From 2016: invited professor in the PhD Programme in Engineering of Complex Systems, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile. Presently supervises 1 postdoc, 5 PhD, 3 MSc and 1 undergraduate scientific initiation, participates in the editorial boards of the Journal of Cellular Automata, Complex Systems, and of the Int. Journal of Natural Computing Research, is a member of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and of the Brazilian Society for Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC), and is actively involved with the AUTOMATA Workshops on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems. Degree in Electronics Engineering at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, 1981, MSc in Applied Computing at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), 1986; DPhil in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, England, 1994; and in 2011-2012 took a sabbatical semester as a visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada.