Short bio

Robson L. F. Cordeiro received the BSc degree in Computer Science (CS) from the University of Oeste Paulista, Brazil, in 2002, the MSc degree in CS from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2005, and the PhD degree in CS from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2011. His PhD program included a visiting period of one year at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has also earned two Postdoctoral Degrees (2011-2013 and 2021) at USP. His PhD Dissertation won the ’best CS Dissertation Award’ from the Brazilian Computer Society, and generated a book published by Springer, which was later chosen as one of the 'Computing Reviews' Notable Computing Books and Articles' by ACM. Robson is currently an Associate Professor at USP. He has published over 40 refereed articles regarding large-scale data mining, machine learning, and databases, including many articles in world-class international conferences and journals. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, SIAM, and SBC.

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2021

image Award for teaching excellence

Selected among the best professors of the Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program. Award received from the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo - USP in 2021.

2020

image Award for teaching excellence

Selected among the best professors of the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program. Award received from the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo - USP in 2020.

2019

image Best Paper Award

Paper chosen as one of the best of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2019. Award received from INSTICC in 2019. Paper: Detecting Influencers in Very Large Social Networks of Games.

2018

image Best CS Thesis Award (advisor)

Msc Thesis ranked among best nine Brazilian CS Theses of 2017. Award received from the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC in 2018.

2013

image Notable Computing Books and Articles Award

Book chosen as one of the 'ACM Computing Reviews' Notable Computing Books and Articles'. Award received from the ACM Computing Reviews in 2013. Book: Data Mining in Large Sets of Complex Data.

image Best Paper Award

Paper chosen as one of the best of the 6th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications - SISAP 2013. Award received from the SISAP initiative in 2013. Paper: A New Concept of Sets to Handle Similarity in Databases: The SimSets.

2012

image Best CS Dissertation Award

Ranked first among the Brazilian CS PhD Dissertations of 2011. Award received from the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC in 2012.

image Best CS Dissertation Award

Ranked first among the PhD Dissertations of the Graduate Program in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics defended in 2011. Award received from the University of São Paulo - USP in 2012.

2002

image Best Student Award

Ranked first among his undergraduate class. Award received from the University of Oeste Paulista - UNOESTE in 2002.