ROBSON PARMEZAN BONIDIA

My name is Robson Parmezan Bonidia, I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at the University of São Paulo - USP, Brazil. I also have a degree in Information Security Technology from the Faculdade Estadual de Tecnologia de Ourinhos - SP (FATEC - Centro Paula Souza - Brazil), a specialist in Computer Networks and a Master's in Bioinformatics, both from the Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil. I have experience in Computer Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, metaheuristics, computational biology, and data mining. My objectives are to contribute to society, generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that directly impact the lives of people who need them. Currently, I have been working on building solutions to democratize AI, specifically Machine Learning (ML) in biology. So far, our studies have generated results that can be applied in the study of biological sequences, having a high potential to significantly reduce the experience required to use AI/ML pipelines, helping researchers in combating various problems, such as diseases that directly impact people's lives, mainly in low- and middle-income countries, giving biologists and other stakeholders, an opportunity for widespread use of these techniques. Our studies have achieved awards and publications in high-impact journals. In 2021, our project called BioAutoML was elected by LARA-Google among the 24 most promising ideas in Latin America (24 awarded projects from a base of 700 submissions), winning the Google Latin America Research Awards (LARA), promoted by Google. In 2022, the same project was a finalist (Top 15 of 82) in the Ideas Contest, Falling Walls Lab Brazil 2022, promoted by the Falling Walls Foundation (DAAD - German Center for Science and Innovation). I was awarded two scholarships to conduct my research in Germany (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany), among them: (1) Research Training Grant/Award - Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS); (2) Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant/Award - Helmholtz Information Data Science Academy (HIDA). In addition, some contributions were published as scientific articles. My project, called BioFatecou, which aims to introduce undergraduate students to the conscious use of AI (AI for good), was a finalist in the Higher Education Category (Among the 10 finalists - 2897 subscribers), Transformer Educator Award, which aims to select the most transformative projects in Brazil, in 2023. Finally, in the same year, the BioFatecou project won an honorable mention (more than 200 submissions), in the 25th edition of the Prêmio Top Educacional Professor Mário Palmério.

graduation at Curso Superior de Tecnologia em Segurança da Informação from Fatec - Faculdade de Tecnologia de Ourinhos (2014). Has experience in Computer Science, acting on the following subjects: governo do estado do paraná, sige, top, gestão esportiva and data mining.