de Castro Silva, Leandro (Ph.D.)
Leandro de Castro has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Goiás (1996), M.Sc. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in Computer Engineering from Unicamp, and an MBA in Strategic Business Management from the Catholic University of Santos (2008). He was a Research Associate at the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent at Canterbury (2001-2002), a Visiting Professor at the Malaysian Technological University (2005), a Visiting Professor at Unicamp (2012), and a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Salamanca (2014). He was an Assistant Professor at the Master's Program in Informatics at Unisantos (2003-2008), an Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering and Computing at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2008-2022), and the Chief Executive Officer at In.lab (Center for Research, Development, and Innovation of AI Applied to Health) (2022-2023). His main lines of research are Artificial Intelligence, Natural Computing and Machine Learning, with applications in Data Science and Optimization. Leandro de Castro is the main author of the book “Artificial Immune Systems: A New Computational Intelligence Approach” (Springer-Verlag, 2002); one of the organizers of “Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing” (Idea Group Publishing, 2004); author of “Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications” (CRC Press, 2006), author of the book “Natural Computing: An Illustrated Journey” (Livraria da Física, 2010), organizer of the book “Nature-Inspired Computing Design, Development, and Application” (IGI-Global, 2012) and main author of the book “Introduction to Data Mining: Basic Concepts, Algorithms and Applications” (Saraiva, 2016, in Portuguese). He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR) between 2010 and 2015, published by IGI-Global. He has more than 250 papers published in national and international journals and conferences. Leandro also has extensive entrepreneurial experience, having already participated in the founding of three Artificial Intelligence startups and invested, as an angel investor, in other three. Over the past three years (2020-2022) he was recognized as among the 2% most influential researchers in the world based on scientific impact indices monitored by PLoS Biology. He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Technology at Unicamp, a Principal Investigator in the Center of Science, Technology and Development for innovation in Medicine and Health hosted at the University of São Paulo, and a Full Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU).
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