Roberto Medeiros de Souza

Dr. Roberto Souza

Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Associate Professor and Interim Associate Head of Research

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering

Full Member

Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Associate Member

McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health

Contact information

Phone number

office: 403.210.6544

Location

Office: ICT352C
Graduate students lab space: ENA227

Background

Educational Background

PhD Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 2017

MSc Computer Engineering, UNICAMP, 2014

BSc Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Pará, 2012

Biography

Roberto Souza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he also serves as the Interim Associate Head of Research. Since joining the faculty in 2020, Dr. Souza has established a distinguished research program at the intersection of medical imaging and artificial intelligence and has received funding from several provincial, national, and international funding agencies.

His excellence in both domains has been recognized with the Schulich School of Engineering Early Research Excellence Award (2022) and the Teaching Excellence Award (2023). Before his faculty appointment, he completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Calgary’s Department of Radiology. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Pará, as well as an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). With international experience at the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Souza’s current research focuses on innovative data integration and mining strategies for imaging (stroke, concussion, cancer) and prehospital applications.

Research

Areas of Research

Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Ageing and Dementia

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ENEL 645 Data Mining & Machine Learning Fall 2024
ENEL 645 Data Mining & Machine Learning Winter 2024
ENEL 645 Data Mining & Machine Learning Winter 2023
ENSF 619.2 Advanced Topics in Image Analysis and Machine Learning Winter 2023
ENDG 233 Programming with Data Fall 2022
ENEL 645 Data Mining & Machine Learning Winter 2022
ENSF 619.2 Advanced Topics in Image Analysis and Machine Learning Fall 2021
ENEL 645 Data Mining & Machine Learning Winter 2021

Awards

  • Teaching Excellence, Schulich School of Engineering. 2023
  • Early Research Excellence, Schulich School of Engineering. 2022
  • UNICAMP Inventor’s Award, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). 2016
  • Engineering Kawaguchi Award , Albras S.A.. 2012

Publications