Full Professor – Department of Computing and Mathematics (DCM), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2013 - present
Associate Professor - Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2005 - 2013
Assistant Professor - Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2000 - 2005
Visiting Researcher - Arizona State University (ASU), USA, 2003 - 2005
Post-Doc Fellow, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil, 1999 - 2000
PhD - Aeronautic Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, 1996 - 1998
MSc -Aerona utic Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, 1993 - 1996
BSc - Wuhan University, China, 1984 - 1988
Artificial Neural Networks
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems for Information Processing
Complex Networks
Bioinformatics
Pattern Recognition and Digital Image Processing
Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2009 – 2012)
Associate Editor – Neural Networks (2012 - present)
Editorial Board – International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation
Guest Editor – Soft Computing (Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Volume 13 , Issue 12, July 2009)
Program Co-chair - The 4 th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08) and the 5 th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08)
Bio-Inspired Computation Group