Full Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.
Formation
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D.Sc. (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UNICAMP (DCA/FEEC, Campinas, SP, December 1999).
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Graduated in Law (UNI-RN, 2015) and concluded Specialization in Administrative Law (UFRN, January 2018)
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Post Doc (Academic Visitor) - University of Manchester, England, (2009/2010) and UNICAMP (2001).
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M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from USP – University of São Paulo (EESC, São Carlos, SP, January 1996, with honors and distinction).
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Specialization degree in Computer Engineering (UFRN, 1993) and Production Engineering (UFSCar, 1996).
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B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from UFRN (Natal, RN, July, 1992)
Recent activities
Member of the Law and Information Technology Commission of OAB / RN (since 2016) and Member of the Digital Law Commission of OAB / RN (since 2018).
Member of the Board of Directors of UFRN (CONSAD, 2015 – current), Dr. Costa has participated in other higher university councils, such as CONSEPE and CONSUNI. Member of the Permanent Information Security Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
He is currently coordinator of PEP – Graduate Program in Production Engineering (February 2019 – current). He served as adjunct coordinator of PEP / UFRN from January 2015 to January 2019. He was Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering (2004-2006).
He served between 2009 and 2013 as president of SBIC – Brazilian Society of Computational Intelligence (formerly SBRN – Brazilian Society of Neural Networks). He served as a member of SBIC's board of directors from 2013 to 2017. He coordinates the Adaptive Systems Laboratory at UFRN. He is a member of IEEE – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and IEEE CIS – Computacional Intelligence Society.
Dr. Costa usually teaches postgraduate courses including Strategic Organizational Management, Data Mining and Machine Learning related fields. He teaches undergraduate subjects such as Digital Systems, Digital Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence. He has supervised eight doctoral theses and more than thirty master dissertations, as well as more than a hundred undergraduate, internship and scientific initiation works. A list of articles published in the field of computing can be seen at this link. Some articles published on the IEEE Xplore platform can be viewed at this link.
Co-author of the book "An Introduction to Data Mining: Concepts and Applications", Ed. UFERSA (2014), has published several book chapters and full articles in periodicals and conference proceedings.