Biography:
Symone Gomes Soares Alcalá received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2015; and her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO), Brazil, in 2009. She was a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Portugal) from 2010 until 2015, working in the field of computational intelligence modeling for industrial processes. Since 2016, she is a professor at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. In 2024, she joined at the Cátedra of Industria Conectada of the IIT as a postdoctoral researcher.
Current research interests:
Artificial intelligence applied to industry, machine learning, forecasting, vision systems, and distributed production systems.
JCR: 11,648 Q1 (2021); 12,300 Q1 (2022) - SJR: 4,333 Q1 (2021); 4,002 Q1 (2022) 
