Paulo Cortez
Full Professor at University of Minho
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolPaulo Cortez is a Full Professor and researcher at the University of Minho with over 15 years of experience in data science, business analytics, and AI, focusing on data mining, forecasting, neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. He combines deep academic leadership—holding a PhD and habilitation—with practical impact as author of the open-source rminer R package and co-author of the book Modern Optimization with R. An associate editor for Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems, he bridges rigorous research and applied decision-support tools used by practitioners. Notably, he has contributed several widely used datasets to the UCI Machine Learning Repository (including Wine Quality and Bank Marketing), reflecting a commitment to reproducible research and community resources. Based in Braga, Portugal, he blends long-term academic mentorship with sustained open-source and dataset stewardship.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Major, 80% (16 valores), Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Major, 80% (16 valores) at Universidade do MinhoHabilitation, Technologies and Information Systems, Approved unanimously (highest grade), Habilitation, Technologies and Information Systems, Approved unanimously (highest grade) at Universidade do Minho / University of Minho
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
lime6
google-maps-api6
google-maps6
interpretable-machine-learning6
xai5
machine-learning4
fairness-ml4
deep-learning3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
cran/rminer
Nov 2010 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 commits in 9 years 11 months
christophM/interpretable-ml-book
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Book about interpretable machine learning
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
fairness-mlxaideep-learningmachine-learninginterpretable
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