César Rennó Costa

César Rennó Costa is an Associate Professor (Level C3) in Bioinformatics at the Digital Metropolis Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He is the coordinator of Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment (BioME) and founded the Secondary Studies Program (PES) in Bioinformatics at UFRN. He is a member of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS) Board and served as the Chair of the 33rd Annual Meeting held in Natal in 2024. He is funded by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Brain Institute of UFRN, receiving a Young Talent Attraction Fellowship (Level 1) from the Science Without Borders Program. He holds a PhD in Information and Communication Technology with an emphasis on Computational Neuroscience from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, within the SPECS group, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Paul Verschure of the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) and co-supervision of Professor Dr. John Lisman from Brandeis University in Boston, United States. He holds a master's degree from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation (DCA) under the supervision of Professor Dr. Fernando Von Zuben from the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing (LBiC) and co-supervision of Professor Jonatas Manzolli from the Interdisciplinary Center for Sound Communication (NICS). He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the same institution with a certification in Sound Engineering, which includes a cycle of courses in Signal Analysis and Digital Signal Processing. He is a collaborator on the European projects Synthetic Forager and Goal Leaders, the American BRAIN project, and a member of the Convergent Science Network for Biomimetics. His research focuses on studying natural computational principles using biological system modeling as a methodology, simulating these systems on computational platforms using advanced numerical methods, and implementing them in the control of real artificial agents. He has publications in high-impact international journals and has participated in international conferences in the fields of Neuroscience, Computing, and Robotics. He maintains collaborations with researchers in Europe, the United States, and Brazil. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)