Carlos M. Fernandes

 

Research

Carlos M. Fernandes was born in Luanda in 1973 and lives between Lisbon, Portugal, and Granada, Spain. He graduated (Instituto Superior Técnico, 1998) in Electrotechnics   Engineering and owns a master degree in the same field since 2002 (Instituto Superior Técnico). He is currently pursuing a Ph.d. on Bio-inspired Computing. From 2001 to 2005 he teached at Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. (He is also a photographer and photography teacher.)

Bio-inspired Computing is his major field of research: Genetic Algorithms, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization and other metaheuristics. He is particularly interested in the hybridization of Bio-inspired Computing techniques with Self-Organization, Self-Organized Criticality Models and diversity maintenance strategies. In the present, Dynamic Optimization Problems are the mains target for applying such techniques.