Joao Luis Garcia Rosa
João Luís Garcia Rosa is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo (USP) at Sao Carlos, Brazil, where he teaches disciplines such as Neural Networks, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Artificial Intelligence. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering – Electronics and Automation, a Master's degree in Computer Engineering, and a PhD in Computational Linguistics, all from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He is currently with the Bio-inspired Computing Laboratory (BioCom). Dr. Rosa has experience in computer science, with emphasis on artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and biologically plausible artificial neural networks. He presented three 2-hour tutorials in IJCNN 2005 ("Biologically Plausible Artificial Neural Networks"), in IJCNN 2015 ("Noninvasive Electroencephalogram-based Brain-Computer Interfaces”), and in IJCNN 2017 ("Event-Related Potentials: Cognition in Brain-Computer Interfaces"). He has published three books and several papers in journals and peer-reviewed proceedings.