Research Interests

  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Complex Networks
  • Cellular Automata
  • Bioinformatics

My research work focuses on the development of computational models (mainly using evolutionary algorithms and nature-inspired search heuristics) for complex problems such as combinatorial optimization problems, clustering, classification and problems from bioinformatics.

Computational Intelligence models

  • Evolutionary algorithms
  • Swarm intelligence techniques
  • Local search methods
  • Learning algorithms
  • Hybrid search methods

Some problems of interest

  • Community detection in complex networks
  • Density classification in Cellular Automata
  • Routing optimization problems
  • Gene clustering from microarray data
  • Protein structure prediction

Current research directions (selection)

  • Evolutionary models and learning
  • Analysis of complex networks using computational intelligence tools
  • AI models for medical image analysis
  • Hybrid evolutionary approaches for combinatorial optimization
  • Human activity recognition using Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems