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General Information

• Languages: Portuguese (native), English, and Italian (beginner)
• Contact: heldercro[AT]gmail[DOT]com

Research Areas

• Medical imaging with a focus on machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition.

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2016-2019), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
  • WES Canadian equivalent: Doctorate degree.
  • Thesis: “New Approaches for Automatic Detection of Architectural Distortion in Digital Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis”.
  • Sandwich period at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata, Italy, under supervision of professor Arianna Mencattini and funded by Erasmus Mundus program, from Dec/2016 to Jun/2017.
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2014-2015), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
  • WES Canadian equivalent: Master’s degree.
  • Thesis: “Proposal of Radiation Dose Reduction in Digital Mammography Using New Algorithms for Poisson Noise Filtering”
• B.S. in Computer Science (2009-2013), São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil.
  • WES Canadian equivalent: Bachelor’s degree - four years.
  • Thesis: “Desenvolvimento de um Framework para o Reconhecimento Óptico de Caracteres”. (PDF) (Slides) (Source Code).

Work Experience

• 2022-ongoing, Full-time Instructor at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in the Software Development Diploma:
  • CMPS 369 Operating Systems for Software Development: 2023 (Winter, Spring/Summer, Fall)
  • CPSY 200 Software Analysis and Design 2023 (Winter, Spring/Summer)
  • CMPS 303 Object-Oriented Software Analysis and Design: 2022 (Fall), 2023 (Spring/Summer)
  • CPRG 311 Advanced Object-Oriented Programming in Java: 2022 (Fall), 2023 (Spring/Summer)
  • CPRG 211 Object-Oriented Programming 2 (C#): 2023 (Winter, Fall)
• 2022-23, Subject Matter Expert (SME) at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). Assisted in the development of the courses:
  • Operating Systems.
  • Algorithms.
• 2019-22: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary, Dept. of Electrical and Software Engineering. Biometric Technologies Laboratory.
  • Research with biometrics and healthcare data using probabilistic graphical models such as, Bayesian networks and Structural Equation Modeling.
  • Co-instructor for two terms (Winter 2020 and 2021) in the course “ENCM 509 - Fundamentals of Biometric Systems Design”

Software Development Skills

• Programming Languages:Python, MATLAB, R, C, C++, C#, Java…
• Libraries: Jupyter Notebook, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, StatsModels, Scikit-Learn, Scikit-Image, Seaborn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyAgrum, Semopy, PyWavelets…

Services

Journals

• Guest Editor:
  • MDPI Cancers: 2023.
  • Springer Trans. on Computational Science (TCSC): 2022-2023.
• Reviewer:
  • Int’l Journal of Medical Informatics: 1x2018, 2x2019, 1x2023.
  • Scientific Reports: 1x2020, 2x2021, 1x2022.
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine (CIBM): 1x2020, 8x2022, 4x2023.
  • IEEE Access: 1x2020, 1x2021.
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM): 1x2021.
  • IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM): 4x2022, 2x2023.
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI): 1x2022.
  • MDPI Biosensors: 2x2021.
  • MDPI Biomolecules: 1x2021.
  • MDPI Big Data and Cognitive Computing: 2x2021.
  • MDPI Int’l Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: 1x2021.
  • MDPI Diagnostics: 1x2021, 2x2022, 7x2023.
  • MDPI Sensors: 4x2022.
  • MDPI Journal of Imaging: 2x2022.
  • MDPI Cancers: 2x2022.
  • MDPI Tomography: 1x2022.
  • MDPI Applied Sciences: 1x2022, 1x2023.
  • MDPI Healthcare: 1x2022.
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI): 1x2021, 1x2023.
  • Physics in Medicine & Biology: 1x2022, 2x2023.
  • Springer Trans. on Computational Science (TCSC): 4x2022.
  • MDPI Biomedicines: 1x2022.
  • MDPI Mathematics: 1x2023.
  • Revista RESI (pt_BR): 1x2021, 1x2023.
  • MDPI Signals: 1x2023.
  • Springer Artificial Intelligence Review: 1x2023.
  • Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing: 1x2023.
  • MDPI Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE): 1x2023.

Conferences

• Reviewer:
  • Int’l Conf. on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services (CENTRIC): 2022.
  • IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI): 2022.
  • IEEE Int’l Conf. on Autonomous Systems (IEEE ICAS): 2021.
  • IEEE Symp. Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI): 2020, 2021, 2022.
  • IEEE Int’l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC): 2020.

Other Interests

• Hobbies:Philately (the art of collecting stamps) and Malware collection.

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