Ulisses M. Braga Neto (born Feb 12 1971) is a Brazilian-American electrical engineer and is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

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. His main research areas are statistical pattern recognition,

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and image processing, and systems biology. He has worked extensively in the field of error estimation for pattern recognition and machine learning, having published with Edward R. Dougherty the first book dedicated to this topic. He also made contributions to the field of

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in signal and image processing.

Biography

Braga Neto was born in

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in 1971. He received the baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1992, and the master's degree, also in Electrical Engineering, from the

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(UNICAMP) in 1994. He received an M.Sc. degree in Mathematical Sciences in 1998 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, from

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. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the

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, under the supervision of Louise Strong and Edward R. Dougherty. He worked at the Recife regional center of the

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from 2004 to 2007. He moved back to the U.S. in 2007, when he became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2013.

Work

Braga-Neto introduced, along with Edward R. Dougherty the notion of Bolstered Error Estimation. He also invented the Boolean Kalman Filter algorithm for partially-observed boolean dynamical systems (POBDS). In 2015, Braga Neto published, in collaboration with Edward R. Dougherty, the first book dedicated to the topic of error estimation for pattern recognition and machine learning. He also made contributions to the field of

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in signal and image processing, particularly on the topic of image connectivity and connected operators.

References

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