Biography

Dr. Cristiano André da Costa is a Full Professor and researcher at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil. He has been working at the Applied Computing Graduate Program and directing the SOFTWARELAB, Unisinos Laboratory of Software Innovation. Dr. Costa is the founder of SOFTWARELAB, which develops many Research, Development & Innovation (R, D & I) projects with the industry. His research interests include distributed and mobile computing, Internet of Things, semantic interoperability, and artificial intelligence, mainly applied to the health area.
Dr. Costa obtained his Ph. D. and M. Sc. in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. In 2016, he was a visiting professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU, Germany) in the Pattern Recognition Lab. He is a Researcher of Productivity at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil).
Professor Costa is a senior member of the ACM and IEEE. He is a member of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS), the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS), and the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).