Indiana University Bloomington

School of Informatics and Computing

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Luis Rocha

Luis Rocha

Director of Complex Systems Program
Associate Professor of Informatics

E-mail
Phone
(812) 856-1832
Fax
(812) 856-1995
Office
Informatics East, Room 301
Web Site
informatics.indiana.edu/rocha

Other Titles

  • Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests

Complex Systems Modeling: Network Analysis (Biological, Social and Knowledge Networks), Agent-based Modeling, Collective Knowledge Organization, Dynamical Systems. Computational and Mathematical Biology: Bioinformatics, Microarray Data Analysis, Automatic Functional Annotation, RNA Editing, Network Models, Systems Biology, Evolutionary Systems, Origin of Codes. Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life: Adaptive and Evolutionary Computation, Cellular Automata, Emergent Computation, Embodied Cognition, Models of Cognitive Categorization, Origin of Representations and Symbols. Informatics: Intelligent Information Retrieval, Recommendation Systems, Knowledge Management, Data-Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Bioinformatics, Internet Development. Uncertainty Modeling: Fuzzy Set Theory, Evidence Theory, Measures of Uncertainty, Interval Computation, Evidence Sets, Fuzzy Graphs, Decision-Support Systems.

Research Projects

Education

  • Ph.D. in Systems Science and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton, 1997
  • Licentiate (5 year degree) in Mechanical and Systems Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 1990.

Biography

Between 1997 and 2004 Luis Rocha was a technical staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory with the Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group where he led the Complex Systems Modeling Research team and focus area. He also directs the FLAD Computational Biology Collaboratorium at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência where he also co-directs the Computational Biology Ph.D. program. He joined Indiana University in 2004. More information, including publications and research projects, on his Web site.