Carlos Alberto Alves Meira

Biography

Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - Embrapa and Deputy Head of Technology Transfer at Embrapa Informática Agropecuária. Technological Development Productivity Scholar and Extension of CNPq and Member of its Advisory Committee of the Technology and Innovation Program for Agriculture. President of the Brazilian Association of Agroinformatics - SBIAgro. Doctor of Agricultural Engineering from Unicamp (2008), MSc in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from USP and Mathematics from Unesp. Associate Professor accredited in the Graduate Program of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering of Unicamp, in the area of ​​concentration Systems Management in Agriculture and Rural Development and in the topic Data Mining for Knowledge Discovery in Agriculture. Coordinates and participates in projects of research, development and innovation in information technology and informatics for agriculture. Experience in Computer Science, with emphasis in Computational Intelligence, working mainly in the subjects: knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), data mining, decision support systems and modeling and alert for diseases and pests of plants, especially agricultural crops. 

Research Interest

Agronomy