Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computational Intelligence, Digital Metropolis Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. 

Level 2 CNPq Researcher

UK Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellow 2019-2022.

Member, Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment. 

Member, IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee

Research interests: 

• computational intelligence 

• bioinformatics

• signal processing

• machine learning

• intelligent systems