Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira

[Home page: http://professor.mackenzie.br/pedrob/] Main research topics: computational and dynamical aspects of automata networks, specially cellular automata; applications of evolutionary computation; and multi-agent cellular systems. For 6 years (from 2016 until 2021), chair of IFIP WG-1.5: the working group on ''Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems'' of the Technical Committee 1, on ''Foundations of Computer Science'', of the Int. Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Holder of a research grant from CNPq Bolsa PQ (2020-2026); Brazilian coordinator of a grant from CAPES STIC-AmSud (2023-2025); and researcher of Mackenzie's CAPES PrInt project (2019-2024). Since 2001: faculty member of the School of Computing and Informatics (FCI), Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, and of its Postgraduate Programme in Electrical Engineering and Computing (PPGEEC). From 2016: invited professor in the PhD Programme in Engineering of Complex Systems, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile. Presently supervises 4 PhD, 2 MSc and 4 undergraduate students, participates in the editorial boards of the Journal of Cellular Automata, Complex Systems, and of the Int. Journal of Natural Computing Research, is a member of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and of the Brazilian Society for Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC), and is actively involved with the AUTOMATA Workshops on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems. Degree in Electronics Engineering at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, 1981, MSc in Applied Computing at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), 1986; DPhil in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, England, 1994; and in 2011-2012 took a sabbatical semester as a visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)