Current and recent activities

• 2021: Competitions Chair at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2021 (GECCO’21) - GECCO2021 Organizers .
• September, 2020: Organizer of the Electronics and Industrial Automation Seminars (Semana Acadêmica de Eletrônica e Automação Industrial-SEA2020), local conference at UTFPR, Brazil – general chair.
• October, 2019: NASA International Space Apps Challenge Competition – evaluation commitee and opening speaker (Artificial Intelligence: From IoT, Industry 4.0 , Big Data To Smart Cities) - Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil.
• September, 2019: Organizer of the Integrated Academic Week (Semana Acadêmica Integrada-SAI2019) and Electronics and Industrial Automation Seminars (Semana Acadêmica de Eletrônica e Automação Industrial- SEA2019), local conference at UTFPR, Brazil – infra-structure and technical commitee.
• July, 2019- August, 2020: Artificial Intelligence classes - lecturer – exclusively in English. This course introduces basic knowledge representation, techniques, architectures, problem solving and learning methods of artificial intelligence, used to build applied intelligent systems from a computational point of view.
• September, 2018: visiting lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department from at Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey - Graduate Program.
• March, 2018: Paper “On the performance of multi-objective estimation of distribution algorithms for combinatorial problems” shortlisted for the best paper award at IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2018) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• June, 2017: Participated at the The 50 Years of the ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference in San Francisco, California. Read the newsletter here.

Research interests

• Optimization: Numerical and combinatorial optimization, multi and many optimization problems, fitness landscape analysis, modelling, optimizations with simulation;
• Evolutionary Computation: Metaheuristics, local search and extensions, genetic Programming, estimation of distribution algorithms, EA theory;
• Machine learning: Neural networks, bayesian networks, probabilistic models, surrogate models, theoretical machine learning.

Education and Degrees

• 2014-2017: Federal University of Technology – Paraná - CPGEI – Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
• 2008-2011: Federal University of Technology – Paraná - CPGEI – Master Degree in Computer Engineering;
• 2003-2006: Federal University of Technology – Paraná –Technology Degree in Industrial Automation;
• 2002-2006: State University of Ponta Grossa – Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering;

Professional Activity

Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department in Federal University of Technology – Paraná.

Taught classes:

• Artificial Intelligence classes – exclusively in English
• Automation classes
• Programming Languages classes
• Control Systems
• Industrial Automation

Internship Coordinator:

• Company-university agreements
• Monitoring students internship plan and tasks
• Follow-up visits at students work places

Projects coordinator:

• Solving optimization problems using probabilistic models and machine learning: This project aims to develop artificial intelligence methods and computational techniques, based on mathematicals models, specially on probabilistic models, to be applied on image processing, machine learning, and optimization problems. This project has been developed with undergraduating students from UTFPR.
• Sunspot groups classification and recognition using Deep Learning: This project has been developed involving undergraduate students from UTFPR and with international cooperation with Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)
• Detection of COVID-19 deseases based on X-rays images - Co-coordinator. This projetct intends to develop a cloud-based application to the analysis of lung X-ray images using machine learning and deep learning techniques for classification and detection of the COVID-19 deseases. This project has been developed with international cooperation from Aalborg University, Denmark, and Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Supervisions at UTFPR:

• Machine Leaning techniques as surrogate models applied to optimization algorithms - Master student
• Deep learning techniques applied to recognition for assisted vehicles - Master student

Events Organizer and Volunteering

• General Coordinator/Chair of the Electronics and Industrial Automation Seminars (Semana Acadêmica de Eletrônica e Automação Industrial)-SEA2020: This event occurs every year at the UTFPR to promote academic activities and includes seminars, workshops, competitions, tutorials, and papers presentations;
• Infrastructure Coordinator of the Electronics and Industrial Automation Seminars (Semana Acadêmica de Eletrônica e Automação Industrial)-SEA2019
• Infraestructure commitee member of the Integrated Academic Week (Semana Acadêmica Integrada-SAI2019): This event is sponsored by UTFPR in partnership with some local companies and factories to promote the integration among students and sharing knowledge from different courses and universities;
• Volunteering at ACM’s Celebration of 50 Years of the Turing Award conference - 2017
• Volunteering at The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2016
• Volunteering at The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2017

Received Grants and Awards

• 20-days Foreign academic activities in University of Adelaide, Australia –teaching and lectures – May 2021
• 2nd best in Theses Competition (11th edition of CTDIAC (Concurso de Teses e Dissertações em Inteligência Artificial e Computacional) during Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS 2018) in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Award of the Spotlight Doctoral Thesis at the Theses Contest during 5th IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI 2018) in Guadalajara, México.
• I have been selected to the Mevlana Exchange Program in Antalya, Turkey, during 14 days (September,2018) as a visitor lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department from Akdeniz University, giving classes for Graduate Program.
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Travel Grant to attend GECCO 2016 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
• ACM Travel Grant to attend GECCO 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
• ACM Financial support to attend the ACM’s Celebration of 50 Years of the Turing Award conference in San Francisco USA on June, 2017.

Memberships

• Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO)

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Applied Soft Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems"
• IEEE Latin America Transactions

Conference PC member

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2020)
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019)
• Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS 2020)
• IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence (ColCACI 2020)

External links

• Google scholar
• DBLP
• ResearchGate

Publications

Journal papers

• Martins, M. S., El Yafrani, M., Delgado, M., Lüders, R., Santana, R., Siqueira, H. V., ... & Ahiod, B. (2021). Analysis of Bayesian Network Learning Techniques for a Hybrid Multi-objective Bayesian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm: a case study on MNK Landscape. Journal of Heuristics, 1-25.
• Oliva, D., Martins, M. S., Osuna-Enciso, V., & de Morais, E. F. “Combining information from thresholding techniques through an evolutionary Bayesian network algorithm.” Applied Soft Computing, pp.106-147, 2020
• Martins, M. S., Delgado, M. R., Lüders, R., Santana, R., Gonçalves, R. and Almeida, C. P. d., “Exploring the probabilistic graphic model of a hybrid multi-objective bayesian estimation of distribution algorithm”, Applied Soft Computing, pp. 328–343, 2018
• El Yafrani M., Martins, M. S., Wagner, M., Ahiod, B., Delgado, M., and Lüders, R. (2017). A hyperheuristic approach based on low-level heuristics for the travelling thief problem. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, pages 1–30.
• Martins, M. S. R., Delgado, M. R. B. S., Lüders, R., Santana, R., Gonçalves, R. A., and Almeida, C. P. d. (2017b). Hybrid multi-objective Bayesian estimation of distribution algorithm: a comparative analysis for the multi-objective knapsack problem. Journal of Heuristics, pages 1–23.
• Martins, M. S. R., Fuchs, S.C., Pando L.U., Delgado M., and Lüders, R. (2013) PSO with path relinking for resource allocation using simulation optimization. Computers & Industrial Engineering , pages 322–330.

Conference papers

• Marcella S. R. Martins, Mohamed El Yafrani, Myriam R. B. S. Delgado, and Ricardo Lüders. 2020. "Multi-layer local optima networks for the analysis of advanced local search-based algorithms". In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 219–227. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3377930.3390179
• Corrêa, F. C., Eckert, J. J., Silva, L. C., Martins, M., Baroncini, V., Santiciolli, F. M., ... & Dedini, F. G. (2020, August). Rule-based Control and Fuzzy Control for Power Management Strategies for Hybrid Vehicles. In 2020 IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence (IEEE ColCACI 2020) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
• Durasevic, M., Jakobovic, D., Martins, M. S. R., Picek, S., & Wagner, M. (2020). "Fitness Landscape Analysis of Dimensionally-Aware Genetic Programming Featuring Feynman Equations". arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12762. Accepted in PPSN2020.
• Oliva, D., Rodriguez-Esparza E., Martins, M. S., Elaziz M. A., Hinojosa S., Ewees A. A., Lu S. Balancing the Influence of Evolutionary Operators for Global Optimization. In: 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2020, Glaskow. 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2020.
• El Yafrani, M., Scoczynski, M., Delgado, M., Lüders, R., Sung, I., Wagner, M., & Oliva, D. (2019, October). On updating probabilistic graphical models in Bayesian Optimisation Algorithm. In 2019 8th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) (pp. 311-316).
• Premebida S., Pechebovicz D., Camargo T., Nazário H., Soares V., Baroncini V., Morais E. de, Siqueira H., Oliva D., Martins M. S. R. “Sunspot behavior forecast using neural networks approaches”. IEEE 2020 International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT, 2020
• Pechebovicz D., Premebida S., Soares V., Camargo T., Bittencourt J., Baroncini V., Martins M.. “Plants recognition using embedded Convolutional Neural Networks on Mobile devices”. IEEE 2020 International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT, 2020.
• Deina C. ; Prates M. H. A.; Alves C. H. R.; Martins M. S. R. ET AL. Comparação do desempenho entre modelos lineares e redes neurais para previsão do preço do café. In: LI Simpósio Brasileiro De Pesquisa Operacional, 2019, Limeira. Anais eletrônicos. Campinas, Galoá, 2019.
• Oliva D., Hinojosa S., Martins M. S. R., Rodriguez-Esparza E., Ortega-Sanchez N. and Pérez-Cisneros M. “Improving the estimation of parameters in induction motors using an evolutionary computation algorithm”. 2019 IEEE LA-CCI paper
• Jakobovic, D., Picek, S., Martins, M. S. R., Wagner, M. “A characterisation of S-box fitness landscapes in cryptography”. In: the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2019, Prague. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference on - GECCO '19. New York: ACM Press, 2019. p. 285.
• Oliva, D., Martins, M. S. R. “A Bayesian based Hyper-Heuristic approach for global optimization”. In: 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2019, Wellington. 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2019. p. 1766
• Camargo, T. , Pechebovicz, D., Premebida, S. M. ; Soares, V. R., Baroncini, V., Siqueira, H. ; Oliva, D., Martins, M. “Detecting a predefined solar spot group with a pretrained convolutional neural network”. In: 2019 IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence (ColCACI), 2019, Barranquilla. 2019 IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence (ColCACI), 2019. p. 1.
• Martins, M. S., El Yafrani M., Santana R., Delgado M. R., Luders R., and Ahiod B., “On the performance of multi-objective estimation of distribution algorithms for combinatorial problems”, In IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ser. CEC’18, 2018, pp. 1–8 in arXiv:1806.09 935. _Nominated for best paper_
• El Yafrani, M., Martins, M. S., Krari, M. El, Wagner, M., Delgado M. R., Ahiod B., and Lüders R., “A fitness landscape analysis of the travelling thief problem”, In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ser. GECCO’18, 2018, pp. 277–284.
• Soares, Vinícios, Luz, Mathias L., Ribeiro, A. H., Ribeiro, Rafael S., Martins, M. S., Santos, Max. M. D., Mira, Joaquim. “On the Applicability of Deep Learning for Road Signal Recognition”. In 13th IEEE/IAS International Conference on Industry Applications, ser. INDUSCON 2018.
• Borges, F. G., Monteiro L. F., Martins, M. S. R., Correa, F. C., Siqueira H., Kaster, M. “Performance Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization Strategies to Adjust a Nonlinear GAPID Controller ”. In 13th IEEE/IAS International Conference on Industry Applications, ser. INDUSCON 2018.
• Martins, M. S., Delgado, M. R., Lüders, R., Santana, R., Gonçalves, R. and Almeida, C. P. d. (2017a). Probabilistic Analysis of Pareto Front Approximation for a Hybrid Multi-objective Bayesian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS’17, pages 384–389.
• Martins, M. S., Delgado, M. R., Santana, R., Lüders, R., Gonçalves, R. A., and Almeida, C. P. d. (2016). HMOBEDA: Hybrid Multi-objective Bayesian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO’16, pages 357–364, New York, NY, USA. ACM.
• Martins, M. S. R., El Yafrani, M., Delgado, M. R. B. S., Wagner, M., Ahiod, B., and Lüders, R. (2017c). HSEDA: A heuristic selection approach based on estimation of distribution algorithm for the travelling thief problem. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO’17, pages 361–368, New York, NY, USA. ACM.
• Martins, M. S. R., Delgado M., and Lüders, R. (2009). Análise da Otimização com Simulação da Transferência de Petróleo. In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional, XLI SBPO, 2009.
• Martins, M. S. R., Delgado M., and Lüders, R. (2009). Discrete Event Simulation for Petroleum Transfers involving harbors, refineries and pipelines. Rio Pipeline.