Ronnie Alves received his PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Minho at Braga (Portugal) in April'2008, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Orlando Belo. While pursuing his PhD studies, he also served as a Visiting Researcher in the Data Mining Group at DAIS Lab in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) led by Prof. Dr. Jiawei Han and in the Bioinformatics Research Group at Pablo de Olavide University ? Sevilla, Spain) led by Prof. Dr. Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz.
Before starting his Ph.D, he also worked as IT Consultant on several industrial data mining projects (From Retail to Telecommunications) in Brazil and Portugal. He was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship (Transcriptomics) from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Virtual Biology Lab at the Institute of Biology Valrose (iBV) at Nice from September'2008 to March'2010. Followed by another two-year postdoc position on Machine Learning and Bioinformatics at the Institute of Informatics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Being also a Collaborating Professor in the Department of Theoretical Informatics.
He worked as Researcher Fellow (Jeune Chercheur) in the Lab. of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM), being a member of the Computational Biology Institute (IBC) at the Université Montpellier (UM) from September'2014 to February'2016.
He is an Adjunct Researcher in the Biodiversity and Biotechnology Research Group at the Instituto Tecnologico Vale (ITV).
He holds the position of Collaborating Professor in the Computer Science Master's Program of UFPA (PPGCC-UFPA). He supervises graduate students in the research area of Intelligent Systems, focusing on Machine Learning and Bioinformatics. He was also a member of the Special Committee on Computational Biology (CE-BioComp) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), from 2014 to 2015.