Luciano da Fontoura Costa (born December 1962 in

São Carlos São Carlos (Saint Charles, in English, ; named after Saint Charles Borromeo) is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, 254 kilometers from the city of São Paulo. With a population of 254,484 inhabitants, it is th ...

, SP,

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) is a full professor at the Institute of Physics at São Carlos,

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

, where he coordinates the Multidisciplinary Computing Group.

Career

Luciano received his

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Electronic Engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...

in 1984 from the

, his MSc in

Applied Physics Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered to be a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering. "Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination ...

(Univ.

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), and his PhD in Electronic Engineering from King's College,

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. He was elected Visiting Scholar by St Catharine's College,

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, UK (2008), and is a member of the

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Institute, Austria. Costa has participated in several international projects, including a Human Frontiers Grant with the

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and the

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Research

His main research interests include

complex network In the context of network theory, a complex network is a graph (network) with non-trivial topological features—features that do not occur in simple networks such as lattices or random graphs but often occur in networks representing real s ...

s, image analysis,

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...

scientific visualization Scientific visualization ( also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with the visualization of scientific phenomena.Michael Friendly (2008)"Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, stat ...

and

digital signal processing Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations. The digital signals processed in this manner are ...

. He studied the relationship between neuronal shape, connectivity, and dynamics, including percolation studies.

Bibliography

Books

*2001: Luciano da Fontoura Costa; Roberto Marcondes Cesar, Jr. ''Shape Analysis and Classification: theory and practice'', Boca Raton:

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**''Shape Classification and Analysis: theory and practice''; second edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009

Some recent open publications

Complex networks as filters
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 3:1-13, 2009
Outlier motifs in complex networks
Europhysics Letters, 87:18008, 2009.
Characterization of subgraph relationships and distribution in complex networks
New Journal of Physics, 11:013058, 2009.
Edge detection in complex networks
New Journal of Physics, 11:063019, 2009.
What are the best concentric descriptors for complex networks?
New Journal of Physics, 9:311, 2007.
2D pattern evolution constrained by complex network dynamics
New Journal of Physics, 9: 108, 2007. *Studies of aberrant phyllotaxy1 Mutants of Maize Indicate Complex Interactions between Auxin and Cytokinin: Signaling in the Shoot

Apical Meristem The meristem is a type of tissue found in plants. It consists of undifferentiated cells (meristematic cells) capable of cell division. Cells in the meristem can develop into all the other tissues and organs that occur in plants. These cells conti ...

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Plant physiology, Plant Physiology, 150: 205-216, 2009

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