Luis Rueda received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carleton University, Canada, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. His current research interests are mainly focused on devising shallow and deep machine learning and representation learning algorithms at the fundamental level and applications in bioinformatics and cybersecurity to problems in protein-protein interaction, transcriptomics, integrative genome-wide analysis, identification of cancer biomarkers, user authentication, spam review detection and social engineering.

Luis Rueda holds four patents on cybersecurity and has more than 200 publications and presentations in prestigious journals and conferences in machine learning, computational biology and data security. He currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the International Society for Computational Biology.

Bioinformatics, Cancer biomarkers, Interactomics, Machine learning, Next-generation sequencing analysis, Transcriptomics

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)