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Andre Osório e Cruz de Azerêdo Falcao. Concluiu o(a) Doutoramento em Engenharia Florestal em 2001 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Doutoramento em Engenharia Florestal em 2001/10 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Naturais em 1998 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Mestrado em Mestrado em Engenharia Informática em 2005 pelo(a) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia e Licenciatura em Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Florestal em 1993 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Publicou 28 artigos em revistas especializadas. Recebeu 1 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Andre Osório e Cruz de Azerêdo Falcao

Citation names

  • Falcao, Andre

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3B16-7D60-E667
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3588-8746

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2005
Concluded
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Ambiente Interactivo de Visualização para apoio à decisão em modelos de gestão florestal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
2001/10
Concluded
 Engenharia Florestal (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"implementação de métodos heurísticos para modelação da gestão em ecossistemas florestais" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 N/A
2001
Concluded
 Engenharia Florestal (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Implementação de Métodos Heurísticos para Modelação da Gestão em Ecossistemas Florestais. Integração num Sistema de Apoio À Decisão" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1998
Concluded
 Gestão de Recursos Naturais (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Estruturação e implementação de uma base de dados de informação biométrica florestal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores
1993
Concluded
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Florestal (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 14 Valores
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2007/10/01 - 2020/08/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2004/02/01 - 2007/09/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2002/01/01 - 2004/01/31 Post-Doctoral Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
1999/01/01 - 2001/10/08 Doctoral Student Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/06/01 - 2019/11/30 MIMED - Mining the Molecular Metric Space for Drug Design (PTDC/EEIESS/ 4923/2014)
PTDC/EEIESS/ 4923/2014
Principal investigator
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Duarte, C.; Costa, D.; Carriço, L.; Falcão, A.; Tavares, L.. "Welcoming gesture recognition into autism therapy". 2014.
    10.1145/2559206.2581337
  2. Bastos, H.P.; Pesquita, C.; Faria, D.; Falcão, A.O.. "BOLOS: BLAST & ontology linked-hOmologue stars". 2008.
    10.1145/1363686.1363982
  3. Falcao, A.O.; Faria, D.; Ferreira, A.. "Peptide programs: Applying fragment programs to protein classification". 2008.
    10.1145/1458449.1458459
Journal article
  1. Samina Kausar; Andre O. Falcao. "A visual approach for analysis and inference of molecular activity spaces". Journal of Cheminformatics 11 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-019-0386-z.
    10.1186/s13321-019-0386-z
  2. Kausar, S.; Falcao, A.O.. "Analysis and comparison of vector space and metric space representations in QSAR modeling". Molecules 24 9 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85065666066&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/molecules24091698
  3. Menden, M.P.; Wang, D.; Mason, M.J.; Szalai, B.; Bulusu, K.C.; Guan, Y.; Yu, T.; et al. "Community assessment to advance computational prediction of cancer drug combinations in a pharmacogenomic screen". Nature Communications 10 1 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85067453487&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41467-019-09799-2
  4. Canato, S.; Santos, J.D.; Carvalho, A.S.; Aloria, K.; Amaral, M.D.; Matthiesen, R.; Falcao, A.O.; Farinha, C.M.. "Proteomic interaction profiling reveals KIFC1 as a factor involved in early targeting of F508del-CFTR to degradation". Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 75 24 (2018): 4495-4509. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85052053838&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00018-018-2896-7
  5. Kausar, S.; Falcao, A.O.. "An automated framework for QSAR model building". Journal of Cheminformatics 10 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040791307&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s13321-017-0256-5
  6. Keller, Andreas; Gerkin, Richard C.; Guan, Yuanfang; Dhurandhar, Amit; Turu, Gabor; Szalai, Bence; Mainland, Joel D.; et al. "Predicting human olfactory perception from chemical features of odor molecules". Science 355 6327 (2017): 820-+. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000395127600037&KeyUID=WOS:000395127600037.
    10.1126/science.aal2014
  7. Sieberts, Solveig K; Zhu, Fan; Garcia-Garcia, Javier; Stahl, Eli; Pratap, Abhishek; Pandey, Gaurav; Pappas, Dimitrios; et al. "Crowdsourced assessment of common genetic contribution to predicting anti-TNF treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis.". Nature communications 7 (2016): 12460-12460. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=MEDLINE&KeyUT=MEDLINE:27549343&KeyUID=MEDLINE:27549343.
    10.1038/ncomms12460
  8. Clarke, Luka A.; Botelho, Hugo M.; Sousa, Lisete; Falcao, Andre O.; Amaral, Margarida D.. "Transcriptome meta-analysis reveals common differential and global gene expression profiles in cystic fibrosis and other respiratory disorders and identifies CFTR regulators". Genomics 106 5 (2015): 268-277. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000364053900003&KeyUID=WOS:000364053900003.
    10.1016/j.ygeno.2015.07.005
  9. Eduati, Federica; Mangravite, Lara M.; Wang, Tao; Tang, Hao; Bare, J. Christopher; Huang, Ruili; Norman, Thea; et al. "Prediction of human population responses to toxic compounds by a collaborative competition". Nature Biotechnology 33 9 (2015): 933-U172. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000360990900021&KeyUID=WOS:000360990900021.
    10.1038/nbt.3299
  10. Siqueira, J. M.; Paco, T. A.; Silvestre, J. C.; Santos, F. L.; Falcao, A. O.; Pereira, L. S.. "Generating fuzzy rules by learning from olive tree transpiration measurement - An algorithm to automatize Granier sap flow data analysis". Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 101 (2014): 1-10. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000331686000001&KeyUID=WOS:000331686000001.
    10.1016/j.compag.2013.11.013
  11. Teixeira, Ana L.; Falcao, Andre O.. "Structural Similarity Based Kriging for Quantitative Structure Activity and Property Relationship Modeling". Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 54 7 (2014): 1833-1849. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000339647000003&KeyUID=WOS:000339647000003.
    10.1021/ci500110v
  12. Marques, A. F.; Rosset, C.; Rasinmaki, J.; Vacik, H.; Gordon, S.; Nobre, S.; Falcao, A.; et al. "Collaborative development of a semantic wiki on forest management decision support". Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 29 (2014): 30-43. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000345373600004&KeyUID=WOS:000345373600004.
    10.1080/02827581.2013.832791
  13. Teixeira, A.L.; Leal, J.P.; Falcao, A.O.. "Random forests for feature selection in QSPR models - An application for predicting standard enthalpy of formation of hydrocarbons". Journal of Cheminformatics 5 2 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876743796&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1758-2946-5-9
  14. Teixeira, A.L.; Falcao, A.O.. "Noncontiguous atom matching structural similarity function". Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 53 10 (2013): 2511-2524. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887067689&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1021/ci400324u
  15. Martins, I.F.; Teixeira, A.L.; Pinheiro, L.; Falcao, A.O.. "A Bayesian approach to in Silico blood-brain barrier penetration modeling". Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 52 6 (2012): 1686-1697. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862890235&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1021/ci300124c
  16. Faria, D.; Schlicker, A.; Pesquita, C.; Bastos, H.; FerreiraAntó, A.E.N.; Albrecht, M.; Falcão, A.O.. "Mining GO annotations for improving annotation consistency". PLoS ONE 7 7 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864674779&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0040519
  17. Zhang, H.; Constantino, M.; Falcão, A.. "Modeling forest core area with integer programming". Annals of Operations Research 190 1 (2011): 41-55. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80053132251&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10479-009-0517-4
  18. Madureira, L.; Nunes, L.C.; Borges, J.G.; Falcão, A.O.. "Assessing forest management strategies using a contingent valuation approach and advanced visualisation techniques: A Portuguese case study". Journal of Forest Economics 17 4 (2011): 399-414. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80054789382&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jfe.2011.04.001
  19. Bettinger, P.; Cieszewski, C.J.; Falcao, A.. "Perspectives on new developments of decision support systems for sustainable forest management". Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resource Sciences 3 1 (2011): 15-17. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84860313136&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  20. Pesquita, C.; Faria, D.; Falcão, A.O.; Lord, P.; Couto, F.M.. "Semantic similarity in biomedical ontologies". PLoS Computational Biology 5 7 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-68249087607&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000443
  21. Faria, D.; Ferreira, A.E.N.; Falcão, A.O.. "Enzyme classification with peptide programs: A comparative study". BMC Bioinformatics 10 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-68949098339&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1471-2105-10-231
  22. Pesquita, C.; Faria, D.; Bastos, H.; Ferreira, A.E.N.; Falcão, A.O.; Couto, F.M.. "Metrics for GO based protein semantic similarity: A systematic evaluation". BMC Bioinformatics 9 SUPPL. 5 (2008): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-47149083877&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1471-2105-9-S5-S4
  23. Falcão, A.O.; Santos, M.P.d.; Borges, J.G.. "A real-time visualization tool for forest ecosystem management decision support". Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 53 1 (2006): 3-12. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33745458657&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.compag.2006.03.003
  24. Falcão, A.O.; Langlois, T.; Wichert, A.. "Flexible kernels for RBF networks". Neurocomputing 69 16-18 (2006): 2356-2359. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33748593939&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.neucom.2006.03.006
  25. Falcão, A.O.; Borges, J.G.. "Designing decision support tools for Mediterranean forest ecosystems management: A case study in Portugal". Annals of Forest Science 62 7 (2005): 751-760. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-28444454938&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1051/forest:2005061
  26. Falcão, A.O.; Borges, J.G.. "Heuristics for integrating strategic and operational levels in large scale forest management problems,Heurísticas para a integração de níveis estratégico e operacional da gestão florestal em problemas de grande dimensão". Scientia Forestalis/Forest Sciences 63 (2003): 94-102. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0142197645&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  27. Falcão, A.O.; Borges, J.. "Combining random and systematic search heuristic procedures for solving spatially constrained forest management scheduling models". Forest Science 48 3 (2002): 608-621. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036705865&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  28. Falcão, A.O.; Borges, J.G.. "Designing an evolution program for solving integer forest management scheduling models: An application in portugal". Forest Science 47 2 (2001): 158-168. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035037001&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2016/01/01 - 2019/07/01 Computational approaches to virtual screening in human central nervous system therapeutic targets
Supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2014/10/01 Data-Mining Techniques for Prediction of Thermochemical Properties
Supervisor
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2007/01/01 - 2012/06 Automated Knowledge Extraction from Protein Sequence
Supervisor
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Distinctions

Title

2013 DREAM8 Toxicogenetics Challenge 2 - First place using the RMSE as evaluation criteria