Prof. Cristiano Fontes, PhD
Editor
Professor
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA
SALVADOR, BAHIA, 40110150, Brazil.
Specialization: Neural Networks
Address: FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA, SALVADOR, BAHIA, 40110150, Brazil.
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Biography
He was general coordinator of the Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering at Escola Politécnica from 2008 to 2012 and vice-coordinator from 2012 to 2014. He develops, guides and publishes works in the areas of identification, control, optimization, artificial intelligence techniques and pattern recognition applied to production systems. He is a CNPq productivity fellow (level 2) in the area of Production Engineering, more specifically in the subarea Planning, Design and Control of Production Systems. He is an ad hoc CNPq consultant. He has taught in recent years Fundamentals of Heat Transfer to undergraduate courses in chemical and mechanical engineering and Fundamentals of Fuzzy Logic, Clustering and Pattern Recognition to undergraduate and graduate students. In 2015, he did a Post-Doctorate at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) on pattern recognition in univariate and multivariate time series as a tool to support decision making.