Miguel Rocha

Miguel Rocha studied informatics engineering at the University of Minho, where he received the BSc degree, in 1995, the MSc degree, in 1998 and, finally the PhD degree, in 2004. He is currently an associated professor in the School of Engineering, University of Minho, and also the director of the master course Bioinformatics and coleads the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology team of the Centre of Biological Engineering. He has published over 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, has been the PI of several funded projects, and supervised seven PhD students. The main research interests are related to bioinformatics, mainly in the topics of machine learning, evolutionary computation, computational systems biology, reconstruction and optimization of metabolic models, strain optimization, biomedical text mining, and omics data analysis and mining.