Students

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PhD Students (6)

Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino

Preliminary title: "Variações do Problema de Distância de Rearranjos"

Qualifying Exam held on 12/04/2021.

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Ana Paula dos Santos Dantas

Preliminary title: "Problemas de Coberturas Justas e Máximas"

Qualifying Exam held on 24/02/2022.

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Gabriel Bianchin de Oliveira

Preliminary title: "Anotações de Funções de Proteínas utilizando Processamento de Linguagem Natural e Alinhamento Local de Proteínas"

Qualifying Exam held on 21/03/2023.

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Gabriel Henriques Siqueira

Preliminary title: "Generalizações de Problemas Envolvendo Partição de Strings e Eventos de Rearranjo"

Qualifying Exam held on 28/03/2022.

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Lucas Oliveira David

Preliminary title: "Exploring Explaining Methods in Multi-Label Problems and Complementary Regularization Strategies in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation"

Qualifying Exam held on 29/03/2023.

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Vinicius Teixeira de Melo


MSc Students (6)

Giulia Silva Fazzi

Preliminary title: "Predição do Estado de Metilação em Pacientes com Glioblastoma Multiforme Utilizando Aprendizado de Máquina"

Qualifying Exam held on 18/10/2023.

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Ioná Santana

Marcos Vinícius Piaia

Preliminary title: "Identificação de Anomalias em Transações Financeiras e Avaliação de Ações Preventivas no Ecossistema de Pagamentos"

Qualifying Exam held on 29/02/2024.

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Marianna de Pinho Severo

Preliminary title: "Aumentação de Dados para Classificação de Imagens Utilizando Redes Neurais Profundas"

Qualifying Exam held on 10/12/2020.

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Rebeca Padovani Ederli

Preliminary title: "Detecção e Classificação de Estágios do Sono"

Qualifying Exam held on 17/10/2022.

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Wilson Bagni Junior

Preliminary title: "Estudo Comparativo de Autoencoders"

Qualifying Exam held on 25/03/2024.

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Former PhD Students (10)

André Atanasio Maranhão Almeida

Dissertation title: "New approaches for the multiple sequence alignment problem"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/04/2009.

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Doctoral Defense held on 21/02/2013.

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André Rodrigues Oliveira

Dissertation title: "Constrained and Intergenic Models for the Sorting by Reversals and Transpositions"

Qualifying Exam held on 06/10/2016.

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Doctoral Defense held on 09/12/2019.

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Bruno Malveira Peixoto

Dissertation title: "Harnessing high-level concepts, visual, and auditory features for violence detection in videos"

Qualifying Exam held on 20/08/2018.

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Doctoral Defense held on 14/07/2021.

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Carla Negri Lintzmayer

Dissertation title: "The problem of sorting permutations by prefix and suffix rearrangements"

Qualifying Exam held on 25/04/2014.

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Doctoral Defense held on 15/12/2016.

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Christian Baudet

Dissertation title: "Enumeration of traces and breakpoint identification: study of evolutionary aspects"

Qualifying Exam held on 05/09/2008.

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Doctoral Defense held on 13/12/2010.

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Filipe de Oliveira Costa

Dissertation title: "Image and video phylogeny reconstruction"

Qualifying Exam held on 29/11/2013.

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Doctoral Defense held on 14/06/2016.

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Gustavo Rodrigues Galvão

Dissertation title: "Algorithms for sorting by reversals or transpositions, with application to genome rearrangement"

Qualifying Exam held on 25/04/2014.

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Doctoral Defense held on 02/10/2015.

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Javier Alvaro Vargas Muñoz

Dissertation title: "Large-Scale Indexing of High Dimensional Data via Nearest Neighbor Graphs"

Qualifying Exam held on 28/11/2017.

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Doctoral Defense held on 12/03/2020.

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Klairton de Lima Brito

Dissertation title: "Models with a Proportion Ratio between Operations and Rigid and Flexible Intergenic Regions"

Qualifying Exam held on 09/12/2019.

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Doctoral Defense held on 16/12/2022.

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Ulisses Martins Dias

Dissertation title: "Genome comparison problems"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/04/2009.

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Doctoral Defense held on 08/02/2012.

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Former MSc Students (21)

Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino

Thesis title: "Sorting permutations by weighted operations"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/10/2017.

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Master's Defense held on 21/02/2019.

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Ana Paula dos Santos Dantas

Thesis title: "Convex graph recoloring"

Qualifying Exam held on 26/04/2018.

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Master's Defense held on 27/09/2019.

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André Rodrigues Oliveira

Thesis title: "The sorting permutations problem by reversals and transpositions"

Qualifying Exam held on 24/04/2014.

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Master's Defense held on 02/10/2015.

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Bruno Malveira Peixoto

Thesis title: "Classification of sequences and diversity analysis in metagenomics"

Qualifying Exam held on 11/11/2011.

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Master's Defense held on 19/04/2013.

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Caroline Mazini Rodrigues

Thesis title: "Image Representativeness Analysis for Event Description"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/10/2018.

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Master's Defense held on 04/06/2020.

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Christian Baudet

Thesis title: "An approach for artifacts detection and removal on EST Sequences"

Qualifying Exam held on 21/10/2004.

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Master's Defense held on 01/12/2006.

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Gabriel Bianchin de Oliveira

Thesis title: "Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Machine Learning and BLAST"

Qualifying Exam held on 17/10/2019.

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Master's Defense held on 11/03/2021.

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Gabriel Henriques Siqueira

Thesis title: "Heuristics for Genome Rearrangement Problems with Replicated Genes"

Qualifying Exam held on 07/10/2019.

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Master's Defense held on 12/03/2021.

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Guilherme Henrique Santos Miranda

Thesis title: "Sorting permutations by limited-size operations"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/10/2017.

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Master's Defense held on 21/02/2019.

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Gustavo Rodrigues Galvão

Thesis title: "An audit tool for genome rearrangement algorithms"

Qualifying Exam held on 13/05/2011.

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Master's Defense held on 20/12/2012.

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Klairton de Lima Brito

Thesis title: "Sorting signed permutations by reversals and transpositions"

Qualifying Exam held on 29/09/2016.

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Master's Defense held on 12/04/2018.

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Leodécio Braz da Silva Segundo

Thesis title: "Classification of Musculoskeletal Images Using Deep Machine Learning"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/10/2019.

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Master's Defense held on 05/04/2021.

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Lucas Miguel de Carvalho

Thesis title: "Evaluation of de novo RNA-Seq assemblers in a differentially"

Qualifying Exam held on 18/12/2013.

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Master's Defense held on 10/11/2015.

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Maria Angelica Lopes de Souza

Thesis title: "Progressive multiple alignment of protein sequences"

Qualifying Exam held on 22/10/2008.

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Master's Defense held on 23/07/2010.

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Miguel Galves

Thesis title: "A computational approach to the single base polymorphism determination"

Qualifying Exam held on 22/10/2004.

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Master's Defense held on 01/12/2006.

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Pedro Olímpio Nogueira de Oliveira Pinheiro

Thesis title: "Partition of Eulerian Graphs in Circuits"

Qualifying Exam held on 04/10/2019.

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Master's Defense held on 08/10/2021.

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Sergio Jeferson Rafael Ordine

Thesis title: "Protein multiple sequence alignment using genetic algorithms"

Qualifying Exam held on 11/11/2011.

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Master's Defense held on 03/07/2015.

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Thiago da Silva Arruda

Thesis title: "Sorting by length-weighted inversions"

Qualifying Exam held on 19/09/2012.

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Master's Defense held on 28/04/2016.

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Tiago Martinho de Barros

Thesis title: "Employing Transformers and Emoji to Perform Sentiment Classification of Social Media Texts"

Qualifying Exam held on 03/10/2019.

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Master's Defense held on 03/05/2021.

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Victor de Abreu Iizuka

Thesis title: "Constraint programming applied to genome rearrangements"

Qualifying Exam held on 29/10/2009.

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Master's Defense held on 19/12/2012.

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Vinicius Teixeira de Melo

Thesis title: "Multi-Label Classification of Chest X-Rays Using Deep Learning"

Qualifying Exam held on 17/10/2019.

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Master's Defense held on 08/04/2021.

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