José Alfredo Ferreira Costa

Full Professor at Federal University (UFRN, Brazil). D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering and Automation fields) from State University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil, 1999). B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (1992), M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from USP-EESC, University of Sao Paulo, with honors and distinction (January, 1996). He was a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester, UK (2009/2010). He is a past president of Brazilian Computational Intelligence Society (SBIC, from 2009 to 2013). Dr. Costa was the general Chair of IDEAL 2012 - The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)