Danilo Barbosa Coimbra

Danilo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia. He obtained a double degree PhD in Computer Science with emphasis on Information Visualization at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (ICMC), University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, Netherlands (2016). His main research interests include Multidimensional Visualization techniques, Visual Data Analysis applications, and more recently, Explainable AI (XAI) and Sports Visualization topics.

Main research area: Visualization Contact: coimbra<dot>danilo<at>ufba<dot>br

Islame Felipe da Costa Fernandes

Felipe is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia. He received his B.Sc (2016), M.Sc (2018), and D.Sc (2022) degrees in Computer Science, with emphasis on Operations Research, from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN/Brazil). His current research interests include, but are not limited to, Single- and Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization, Evolutionary Computation, Hybrid Metaheuristics, and Graph Theory.

Main research area: Optimization Contact: islamifelipe<at>gmail<dot>com

Maycon Leone Maciel Peixoto

Maycon Leone Maciel Peixoto is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science with emphasis on Distributed Systems at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (ICMC), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research interests are on Computer Systems, with emphasis on Virtualization Technology, Resource Metascheduling, Performance Evaluation and Cloud Computing.

Main research area: Systems Contact: mayconleo<at>gmail<dot>com

Rafael Augusto de Melo

Rafael is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia. He obtained a PhD in Engineering Sciences with emphasis on Operations Research at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He was a consultant at OM Partners, Belgium, and a research fellow at the Computing Institute, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil. His research interests include discrete and combinatorial optimization, mixed-integer programming (MIP), MIP based heuristics, logistics optimization, graph theory and sports scheduling.

Main research area: Optimization Contact: melo<dot>rafael<at>ufba<dot>br

Ricardo Araújo Rios

Ricardo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science with emphasis on Computational Intelligence at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (ICMC), University of São Paulo, Brazil, including research stays at the Complex Systems Laboratory, Université de Montréal, Canada, and at the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. His research interests include time series analysis, dynamical systems, chaos theory and machine learning.

Main research area: Computational Intelligence Contact: ricardoar<at>ufba<dot>br

Tatiane Nogueira Rios

Tatiane is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computing, Federal University of Bahia. She obtained a PhD in Computer Science with emphasis on Computational Intelligence at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (ICMC), University of São Paulo, Brazil, including a research stay at the McGill University, Canada, and at the Department of Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain. Her research interests include logic and semantics of programs, fuzzy logic, clustering and text mining.

Main research area: Computational Intelligence Contact: tatiane<dot>nogueira<at>gmail<dot>com

Tiago de Oliveira Januário

Tiago is a full-time Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University and an Assistant Professor on Leave at the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Bahia. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science with an emphasis on Operations Research at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, including a research stay at the Università degli Studi di Udine. His research interests include discrete optimization, sports scheduling, local search, neighborhood analysis, and graph theory.

Main research area: Optimization and Graph Theory Contact: januario<at>dcc<dot>ufba<dot>br