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- Professor Alex Freitas
Alex obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex, UK, in 1997, doing research on machine learning (or data mining), and he has continued to do research on machine learning up to the present. In terms of application areas, since about 2005 his research has been focusing on creating new machine learning methods for bioinformatics and life sciences data, including the prediction of protein functions, analysing data about ageing-related genes and proteins, predicting the occurrence of age-related diseases, predicting the effects of medical drugs or chemical compounds, etc. In 2011 he obtained a research-oriented master's degree (MPhil) in Biological Sciences from the University of Liverpool, UK, doing research on the biology of ageing, using machine learning and bioinformatics methods.
Alex belongs to the following research groups:
His main research interests involve the following areas:
Alex is currently teaching Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (a master-level module) and Natural Computation (evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence).
Senior Member of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
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