Ivan Gesteira Costa Filho

Lecturer at

Biology In Silico Methods for Symbolic and Numerical Data Classification Center of Informatics Federal University of Pernambuco Av. Prof. Luiz Freire, s/n Recife - Pernambuco - Brazil phone: 55-81-2128-8430 igcf at cin.ufpe.br

Research Group:

Research Interests:

• Computational Biology: gene expression, gene regulation, developmental processes, cell commitment and differentiation, epigenetics
• Machine Learning: model based clustering, cluster validation, graphical models, semi-supervised learning

Education:

• 2004-2008: Ph.D in Bioinformatics
  Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Computational Molecular Biology , Berlin, Germany.
  Supervisors: Martin Vingron and Alexander Schliep
  

  Mixture Models for the Analysis of Gene Expression

• 2002-2003: M.Sc. in Computer Science
  Centro de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;
  Supervisors: Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho, Marcilio C. P. de Souto
  

  Comparative Analysis of Clustering Methods for Gene Expression Data

• 1996-2001: Bachelor in Computer Science, Centro de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;