Neurotechnology

Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque [M'17, SM'19] is a professor and senior researcher at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil and director of Data Science at the Superintendency for Research and Public Safety Strategy of Ceara State (SUPESP/CE), Brazil. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Paraiba, an M.Sc. in teleinformatics engineering from the Federal University of Cearaa, and he graduated in mechatronics engineering at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Ceara. He is currently a full professor of the Graduate Program in Applied Informatics of UNIFOR and leader of the Industrial Informatics, Electronics and Health Research Group (CNPq). He is an expert, mainly, in IoT, machine/deep learning, pattern recognition, and robotics.


Alkinoos Athanasiou is a board-certified neurosurgeon and a post-doc researcher at the Medical Physics Lab, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is employed as associated scientific staff at the Hellenic Open University, teaching Neuronal Restoration Engineering. He serves as elected Secretary and member of the administrative board of the Hellenic Society for Biomedical Technology. His research interests lie with neurorehabilitation and neurotechnology. He has been awarded more than 15 research grants and awards in total.


Sidarta Ribeiro is a professor of neuroscience and director of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. He has considerable experience in the areas of neuroethology, molecular neurobiology, and systems neurophysiology. He currently coordinates the Brazilian committee of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences, and is a member of the steering committee of the Latin American School of Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences.