Joel Arrais, PhD
Joel P. Arrais is a computer scientist with leading research interests in Deep Learning applied to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Laboratory of Artificial Neural Networks at CISUC. He has authored about 100 works, including journals and conference papers, including participation on reference conferences (ISMB/ECCB, BIBE, ICANN, and ESANN) and journals (Bioinformatics (Oxford), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Journal of Cheminformatics). He has been involved in several national and FP7/HORIZON2020 European funded projects.