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. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)