Santiago Valdés Ravelo

I am a Professor at the Department of Computer Theory (DTC) of the Institute of Computing (IC) of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), member and coordinator of the Laboratory of Optimization and Combinatorics (LOCo), and member of the Research's Ethics Committee (CEP) of the University. Previously, I was an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics of the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a member of the Graduate Program in Computing (Porto Alegre / Brazil). Before that, I was professor at the Center of Computers Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande (Rio Grande / Brazil), and I also was part of the software developers teams at Neolog S.A. and Nexxto S.A. (São Paulo / Brazil).I received the bachelor's degree in Computer Science by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computation of the University of Havana (Havana / Cuba, 2007), where I worked as lecturer and researcher after finishing the studies. I also received the MSc and PhD degrees in Computers Science respectively by the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Goiás (Goiânia / Brazil, 2011) and the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (São Paulo / Brazil, 2016). I also researched as postdoctoral student at the Institute of Computing (IC) of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). As a researcher, the areas of interest include Combinatorial Optimization, Operational Research, Mathematical Programming, Computational Complexity, Graph Theory, Approximation and Exact Algorithms, Heuristics, Metaheuristics and Matheuristics. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)