Borja Calvo

Background

About Borja Calvo

BC recieved his master's degree in Biochemistry in his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 2004 and his PhD in Computer Science in 2008. Since 2011, BC is lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of the Basque Country. BC's main research areas are Machine Learning and Optimization methods and their applications to Bioinformatics problems. He has supervised two PhD thesis (one in co-supervision with the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour) and is currently supervising four more, two of them in collaboration with the Biodonostia Biomedical Research Institute and Vicomtech. BC has published 25 journal papers and 15 communications in international conferences. In the academic area, BC is currently Vicedean for External Affairs and Research at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of the Basque Country and the director of the Master's degree in Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems from the same university. Beyond the academy, I am also interested in scientific dissemination, photography and cinematography.