WEA 2019 PLENARY SPEAKERS
WEA 2019 is glad to announce our international plenary speakers:
Fernando Gomide Ph.D.
Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação – FEEC, Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Automação Industrial – DCA, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP
http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~gomide/
His main interests are system modeling, control and optimization, artificial intelligence, fuzzy set and systems theory, neural and evolutionary computation, granular computing and evolving systems, analytics and data science in decision-making, applications in energy, transportation, logistics, and business systems. He is professor of the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas since 1983. Research fellow 1-A of CNPq, Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Prof. Gomide has co-authored several books including “An Introduction to Fuzzy Sets” (MIT Press) and “Fuzzy Systems Engineering” (IEEE/Wiley Interscience), in addition to several IEEE conferences and transactions papers.
Carlos A. Coello Coello Ph.D.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México
https://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/
His main interests are evolutionary algorithms, multiobjective optimization, evolutive learning and its applications. He is actually one of the World’s Top Three researchers in evolutionary algorithms with more than 4000 citations including the bestseller “Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving MultiObjective Problems”, Second Edition, Springer, New York, September 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-33254-3” with more than 2500 citations.
Phillipe Boland M.Sc.
Blockchain UxTIC – enREDo
https://uxtic.co/spip/?_Philippe-Boland_
Soy analista geopolítico invitado como panelista en más de 500 programas nacionales de opinión. Poseo una educación nómada y multicultural adquirida en muchas instituciones en el extranjero, el colegio Razi en Teherán (Irán), el colegio Franco-Peruano de Lima (Perú), el Liceo Jean Mermoz Dakar (Senegal), la Universidad Paris I Tolbiac y en la Universitat de Barcelona (España) becado “Erasmus”.
Soy especialista e investigador alrededor de las redes de comunidad de práctica. Coordinador de enREDo, ONG que ofrece nuevas formas de aprendizaje y capacitación a través de herramientas de la web, que permitan aprender de manera entretenida y lúdica. Creador de redes sociales especializadas. Además es gestor de la Red de Universidades por las TIC – UxTIC. Actualmente cofundador de la Cámara de Comercio Blockchain TOken Partner.
Leonardo Bobadilla Ph.D.
School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (SCIS), College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (FIU)
users.cis.fiu.edu/~jabobadi/
https://www.cis.fiu.edu/faculty-staff/bobadilla-leonardo/
Dr. Leonardo Bobadilla (FIU) is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (SCIS), College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University (FIU) since 2013. He received his Bachelor degree from the National University of Colombia in Computer Engineering, his Master Degree in Statistics from the National University of Colombia and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is interested in understanding the information requirements for solving fundamental robotics tasks such as navigation, patrolling, tracking, and motion safety and has deployed test-beds that can monitor and control a large number of mobile units that require minimal sensing, actuation, and computation. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers. His research articles have appeared in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal of Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and in top conferences such as ICRA (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), IROS (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), and RSS (The Robotics: Science and Systems). His research has been sponsored by the Army Research Office, Department of Homeland Security, NSF, and the Ware Foundation. He has graduated four Ph.D. students and one master’s student who are well placed in major companies and universities. Dr. Bobadilla has served in 2016, 2017, and 2018 as the Associate Editor for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Jose Manoel de Seixas Ph.D.
Electronics and Computation Engineering Department
COPPE/Poli – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
“Combining Expert Knowledge and Intelligent Signal Processing in
High-Complexity Applications”
https://dblp.org/pers/hd/s/Seixas:Jos=eacute=_Manoel_de
He holds a degree in Mathematics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1979), a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1979), a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1983) and a doctorate in Engineering. Electrical by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1994). He is currently Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Has experience in Electrical Engineering, focusing on Electrical, Magnetic and Electronic Circuits, acting on the following subjects: neural networks, calorimetry, signal processing, electronic instrumentation and neural networks. Currently, he is a researcher 1A for CNPq (brazilian goverment association for researching).