Speaker
Prof.
Marcelo Finger
(Institute of Statistics and Mathematics, IME, USP)
Description
Lecturer: Marcelo Finger is Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo. He received his BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of São Paulo, MSc and PhD (1994) in Computing by the Imperial College, University of London. He was a visiting professor in Computer Science department in Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse (2011) and Cornell University (2012-2013). He currently conducts research involving logical and probabilistic reasoning in order to understand the interaction between these two basic ways of thinking, their computational complexity and their applications in Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities (from FAPESP)
