Bruno Iochins Grisci

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.

Adjunct 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 II
  INF05027 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
Interdisciplinary Department
  CREAD049 - Artificial Intelligence in Education
Postgraduate Program in Computing
  CMP626 - Theory of Computation
  CMP633 - Machine Learning Interpretability

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.

8ª chamada pública de apoio à ciência
Instituto Serrapilheira 🇧🇷

Grantee in the 8th Public Call.

8ª Chamada Pública de Apoio à Ciência – CONFAP - Serrapilheira
Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul 🇧🇷

Grantee in the 8th Public Call.

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.

CT-Mon/RNP Scholarship
RNP - Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa 🇧🇷

Scholarship awarded by the Comitê Técnico de Monitoramento de Dados (CT-Mon) of RNP in the context of the first Data Challenge CT-Mon/RNP.

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) 🇧🇷

Top Reviewer
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Recognized as a Top Reviewer for service as a Main Reviewer at NeurIPS 2026, receiving a complimentary registration to the conference.

Gold Technical Reviewer
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

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.

Data Challenge CT-Mon/RNP winner
RNP - Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa 🇧🇷

Supervisor of one of the three winning teams of the first Data Challenge CT-Mon/RNP, a competition involving 15 teams from 11 Brazilian universities, focused on innovative solutions for network monitoring and content delivery optimization.

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.

Multi-Objective Computer Infrastructure Vulnerability Priorization
United States Patent Office, US 12,556,568 B2

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