Luis M Rocha

Director, Complex Systems Program

Professor of Informatics
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science

Education

• Ph.D. in Systems Science and Computer Science at State University of New York at Binghamton, 1997
• Licentiate in Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 1990

Courses Taught at SICE

• I101 Introduction to Informatics
• I485 Bioinspired Computing
• I501 Introduction to Informatics
• I585 Biologically Inspired Computing
• I601 Introduction to Complex Systems
• I609 Complex Systems Seminar I
• I709 Advanced Seminar II in Informatics, Topic: Complex Systems

Biography

Luis M. Rocha is Professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he is director of the NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary Training Program in Complex Networks and Systems, director of the Complex Networks and Systems track of the Informatics PhD Program, member of the advisory council of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, and core faculty of the Cognitive Science Program. Dr. Rocha is a Fulbright Scholar and is Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia, Portugal, and has been a Visiting Professor of the Neuroscience Program, at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal, and the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Aix-Marseille University, France. His research is on complex networks & systems, computational & systems biology, and computational intelligence. He received his Ph.D in Systems Science in 1997 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. From 1998 to 2004 he was a permanent staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he founded and led a Complex Systems Modeling Team during 1998-2002, and was part of the Santa Fe Institute research community. He has organized major conferences in the field such as the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife X) and the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007). He has published many articles in scientific and technology journals, and has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards. At Indiana University, he has received the Indiana University, School of Informatics & Computing, Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2015 after developing the complex systems training program.

Research Areas

• Biomedical Informatics
• Complex Networks and Systems
• Computational and Systems Biology
• Intelligent Interactive Systems
• Network Science
• Animal Informatics

Centers

• Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research
• Center for Data and Search Informatics
• Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence Lab