Santiago Valdés Ravelo

I am an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics (INA) of the Institute of Informatics (INF) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a member of the Graduate Program in Computing (PPGC). Usually, I lecture courses on linear integer programming and combinatorial optimization for graduate students in Computer Science and on algorithms and programming for undergraduate students in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Before that, I was professor at the Center of Computers Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande (Rio Grande / Brazil), and I also was part of the software developers teams at Neolog S.A. and Nexxto S.A. (São Paulo / Brazil).I received the bachelor's degree in Computer Science by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computation of the University of Havana (Havana / Cuba, 2007), where I worked as lecturer and researcher after finishing the studies. I also received the MSc and PhD degrees in Computers Science respectively by the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Goiás (Goiânia / Brazil, 2011) and the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (São Paulo / Brazil, 2016). As a researcher, the areas of interest include Combinatorial Optimization, Operational Research, Mathematical Programming, Computational Complexity, Graph Theory, Approximation and Exact Algorithms, Heuristics, Metaheuristics and Matheuristics. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)