PhD in Computer Science
Professor at UFRGS
Professor at the Theoretical Informatics Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. I am a Computer Science PhD in the Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics fields at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, with MSc and BSc in Computer Science at the same institution and four study abroad periods at the University of Birmingham (BSc), the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) (MSc), the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (PhD), and the Dalhousie University (PhD). I am a member of the AlumNode.org network. My main research focus is on Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Evolutionary Computation. Outside the academia, I have experience as freelancer journalist and writer. I worked as Research Assistant II at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) and as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Theoretical Computer Science Department of UFRGS.
PhD in Computer Science
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Thesis: Knowledge discovery in biological tabular data through machine learning interpretability and visualization.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Márcio Dorn.
Visiting Graduate Research Student
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Evangelos E. Milios.
Exchange Student at Doctoral Program in Applied Mathematics
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany 🇩🇪
Advisor: Dr. Mathias J. Krause.
MSc in Computer Science
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Thesis: N3O: A NEAT expansion for improving classification and feature selection applied to microarray data.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Márcio Dorn.
Exchange Student at Doctoral Program in Engineering Sciences
Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Mario Inostroza-Ponta.
BSc Computer Science
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Thesis: Prediction of amino acids flexibility using NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Márcio Dorn.
Exchange Student BSc Computer Science
University of Birmingham , Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧
Advisor: Dr. Shan He.
Associate Professor
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Departament of Theoretical Informatics
INF05008 - Foundations of Algorithms
INF05512 - Graph Theory and Combinatorics
INF05501 - Theory of Computation N
Interdisciplinary Department
CREAD049 - Artificial Intelligence in Education
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Departament of Theoretical Informatics
INF05501 - Theory of Computation N
Research Assistant II
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos.
Database Security: a smart model to deal with vulnerabilities in dataservers.
Teacher Training: Tech Culture in the Classroom
Instituto Ling and Unisinos , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 40h.
Teacher Training: World Literature in the Classroom
Instituto Ling , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 40h.
Innovation and Science Diplomacy School on Global Circulation of Research Data
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) , São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 60h.
Machine Learning Data Lifecycle in Production
DeepLearning.AI
Coursera
Introduction to Machine Learning in Production
DeepLearning.AI
Coursera
IX Course in Neuroscience
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 68h.
IV Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology
Postgraduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology (PPGMB)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 20h.
Introduction to Systems Biology and Network Analysis
II Escola Gaúcha de Bioinformática
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 15h.
Processing and Generative Art
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 10h.
Introduction to Python
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre, Brazil 🇧🇷
Credit hour: 4h.
Fapergs 08/2023 Auxílio Recém-doutor ou Recém-contratado – ARD/ARC
Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul 🇧🇷
Grant for newly graduated PhD or newly hired aid (ARD/ARC) for the execution of research projects in science, technology, and/or innovation.
Postdoctoral Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 🇩🇪
The Postdoc-NeT-AI is a DAAD initiative funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research that offers scientific talents from all over the world a personalized gateway to the German AI research community.
Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program
Global Affairs Canada 🇨🇦
To attend Dalhousie University (January 2023-June 2023) as Visiting Graduate Research Student
PhD Scholarship
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) 🇧🇷
EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme Registration Fee Waiver
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 🇩🇪
Accessibility program to attend the virtual EMBL Conference: Visualizing Biological Data in March 2021.
Program CAPES/DAAD - PROBRAL
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) 🇧🇷 🇩🇪
To attend Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) for a year (September 2019 - September 2020) as an exchange PhD student.
EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme Registration Fee Waiver
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 🇩🇪
Accessibility program to attend the 21st EMBL PhD Symposium in November 2019.
PhD Scholarship
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) 🇧🇷
Programa ESCALA de Estudiantes de Posgrado
Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) 🇧🇷 🇨🇱
To attend Universidad de Santiago de Chile (April 2018 - June 2018) as an exchange MSc student.
MSc Scholarship
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS) 🇧🇷
Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) 🇧🇷
Science Without Borders Scholarship
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) 🇧🇷 🇬🇧
To attend University of Birmingham (UK) for a year (September 2014 - September2015) as an exchange undergraduate student.
Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) 🇧🇷
Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Fundação de Apoio da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (FAURGS) 🇧🇷
Honorable Mention for the 2024 Capes Thesis Award in the field of Computing
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes) 🇧🇷
Considered the most important award of Brazilian Science, the CAPES Thesis Award recognizes the best doctoral dissertations defended in Brazil in 2023, in the evaluation areas defined by the Foundation and that are part of the National Graduate System. In 2024, the award received 1,632 submissions. The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) is an agency linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC).
Young Bioinformatician Award for Best Doctoral Thesis
Associação Brasileira de Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional (AB3C) 🇧🇷
The Thesis and Dissertation Competition Committee of the X-Meeting 2024 awards the best doctoral thesis in the field of Bioinformatics in Brazil, defended and approved between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. The theses and dissertations are evaluated based on the scientific and technological results already generated by the work, as well as their potential impact on society and the state of the art in the field of Bioinformatics.
Vote of Praise
PPGC UFRGS 🇧🇷
A vote of praise for a PhD Thesis that, in the unanimous judgment of the examination board, constitutes an exceptional work, provided that the candidate for the title meets the criteria established by the Graduate Committee.
Emerging Leaders in the Americas
Global Affairs Canada 🇨🇦
Award to support the development of human capital and the next generation of leaders in the Americas while strengthening the linkages between post-secondary institutions in Canada and the Americas.
Honorable mention for Best Masters Dissertation
Associação Brasileira de Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional (AB3C) 🇧🇷
Top 3 best dissertation in the field of Bioinformatics with the work entitled "N3O:A NEAT expansion for improving classification and feature selection applied tomicroarray data."
Invitation to the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) 🇩🇪
Invited as one of the 200 young Math and Computer Science researchers around the world to attend the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum and present my research.
Highlighted Research
Dean of Research of UFRGS (Propesq) 🇧🇷
Research selected as the highlight of the session "Artificial Intelligence and Foundations of Computing" at the XXVII Undergraduate Research Meeting of UFRGS with a nomination for the Young Researcher Award, given by the Dean of Research of UFRGS.
ConfID - Conformational Identifier
INPI, BR512019001928-8
N3O: A NEAT expansion for improving classification and feature selection applied to microarray data
INPI, BR512019001953-9
Associate Editor
Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada
Matheus Cezimbra Barbieri, Bruno Iochins Grisci, Márcio Dorn
Expert Systems with Applications, 123667, 2024
📚 PDF | Suppl. 1 | ResearchGate
Bruno I. Grisci, Bruno César Feltes, Joice de Faria Poloni, Pedro H. Narloch, Márcio Dorn
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, e1523, 2023
📚 PDF | Suppl. 1 | Suppl. 2 | ResearchGate
Felipe Colombelli, Vítor Kehl Matter, Bruno Iochins Grisci, Leomar Lima, Karine Heinen, Marcio Borges, Sandro José Rigo, Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Cristiano André da Costa, Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2022
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Bruno Grisci, Gabriela Kuhn, Felipe Colombelli, Vítor Matter, Leomar Lima, Karine Heinen, Mauricio Pegoraro, Marcio Borges, Sandro Rigo, Jorge Barbosa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Cristiano André da Costa, Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos
arXiv, 2202.07466, 2022
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Marcio Dorn, Bruno Iochins Grisci, Pedro Henrique Narloch, Bruno César Feltes, Eduardo Avila, Alessandro Kahmann, Clarice Sampaio Alho
PeerJ Computer Science, 7:e670, 2021
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Bruno Iochins Grisci, Mathias J. Krause, Marcio Dorn
Information Sciences, v. 559, p. 111-129, 2021
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
M D Polêto, B I Grisci, M Dorn, H Verli
Bioinformatics , Volume 36, Issue 11, Pages 3576-3577, btaa130, 2020
📚 PDF | Suppl. | ResearchGate
Jonas da Silveira Bohrer, Bruno Iochins Grisci, Marcio Dorn
arXiv, 2002.04634, 2020
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Bruno César Feltes, Eduardo Bassani Chandelier, Bruno Iochins Grisci, and Márcio Dorn.
Journal of Computational Biology, 376-386, Apr 2019
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Pablo R. Arantes, Marcelo D. Polêto, Elisa B. O. John, Conrado Pedebos, Bruno I. Grisci, Marcio Dorn, and Hugo Verli
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123, 5, 994–1008, 2019
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Bruno Iochins Grisci, Bruno César Feltes, Marcio Dorn
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 89, Pages 122-133, January 2019
📚 PDF | Suppl. | ResearchGate
Bruno César Feltes, Bruno Iochins Grisci, Joice de Faria Poloni, Márcio Dorn
Molecular Omics, 14, 289-306, 2018
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Bruno Iochins Grisci, Bruno César Feltes, Marcio Dorn
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2018
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Marcelo D. Polêto, Victor H. Rusu, Bruno I. Grisci, Marcio Dorn, Roberto D. Lins, Hugo Verli
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 9:395, 2018
📚 ResearchGate
Bruno Grisci and Márcio Dorn
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 15, No. 03, 1750009, 2017
📚 ResearchGate
Bruno Grisci and Márcio Dorn
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2016
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
Bruno Borguesan, Mariel Barbachan e Silva, Bruno Grisci, Mario Inostroza-Ponta, Márcio Dorn
Computational Biology and Chemistry, Volume 59, Part A, Pages 142-157, December 2015
📚 PDF | Suppl. | ResearchGate
Lucas E. P. Mizusaki, Willian B. Esperandio, Nelso G. Jost, Dante A. C. Barone, Bruno I. Grisci, Ana Carolina Ribeiro
Anais do XLI Congresso Brasileiro de Educação em Engenharia (COBENGE), Gramado, 2013
📚 PDF | ResearchGate
EMBL Conference: Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI)
Visualization of gene selection results from cancer data using weighted t-SNE 🇩🇪
📜 PNG
4th Spring School Lattice Boltzmann Methods
Selection of Biological Features by Ranking the Relevances of Neural Networks Inputs 🇩🇪
21st EMBL PhD Symposium
Selection of Biological Features by Ranking the Relevances of Neural Networks Inputs 🇩🇪
7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Ranking Relevances from Neural Networks for the Selection of Biological Features 🇩🇪
XXVIII Scientific Initiation Meeting of UFRGS
Predição da Flexibilidade Conformacional de Resíduos de Aminoácidos através de Neuroevolução 🇧🇷
PhD Thesis, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Knowledge discovery in biological tabular data through machine learning interpretability and visualization
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Márcio Dorn.
MSc Dissertation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
N3O: a NEAT expansion for improving classification and feature selection applied to microarray data
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Márcio Dorn.
Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr. Mario Inostroza-Ponta.
BSc Final Project, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Predição da flexibilidade de aminoácidos utilizando neuroevolução de topologias crescentes
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Márcio Dorn.
Co-Advisor: Dr. Shan He.
The SBCB Lab has a solid history of research in Bioinformatics, with several publications in the area. The group has vast knowledge in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Metaheuristics, and Massively Parallel Processing.
An essential aspect of the analysis made by our group is the potential integration of data of different natures. In this sense, for example, expression data can be applied in System Biology protocols and machine learning algorithms. We have experience dealing with the analysis and manipulation of data from the different sources listed above in a single integrative protocol that has been increasingly sought after and demanded in Brazil and worldwide.
We are also working in protein structure prediction, molecular docking, molecular dynamic simulation, analysis of transcriptomic data, systems biology, including analysis of co-expression networks, regulatory networks, and protein-protein interaction post-translational gene regulation (alternative splicing, miRNAs, and lncRNAs).
Besides doing science I like taking photos and writing. Some of my pictures can be seen here and here. Some of them are even adorning this website.
I have short stories (in Portuguese) published on this book and on this other book.
I also contributed several texts (in Portuguese) to GameBlast, PlayReplay, and Revista Nintendo World.
Feel free to contact me through the e-mail below:
Email bigrisci@inf.ufrgs.br