Joao F. L. de Oliveira received the PhD degree in Computational Intelligence in 2016 from the Federal University of Pernambuco. He joined the University of Pernambuco in 2014, where currently he is a Professor and Head of the Automation and Control Engineering undergraduate program. He is the Head of the Data Science laboratory at the Innovation Institute of Technology at UPE (IIT/UPE). His research interests include artificial neural networks, pattern recognition, hybrid intelligent systems, evolutionary computation and time series forecasting.