Curriculum Vitae

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Personal Information

Name: Israel Mendonça dos Santos
名前: メンドンサ　ドス　サントス　イスラエル
Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
email: israel at cs dot kumamoto-u dot ac dot jp
Office: Big Data Science and Technology, Division of Informatics and Energy, Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University 2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
住所:〒860-8555 熊本市中央区黒髪2-39-1 熊本大学大学院先端科学研究部情報・エネルギー部門先端工学第四分野（ビッグデータ）
Phone: +81-96-342-3632

[2015-2019] Doctor of Engineering - Kyushu University, Japan.
[2011-2014] Master in Systems Engineering - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
[2007-2011] Bachelor in Computer Science - Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[2025-current] Associate Professor at Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
[2020-2025] Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
[2019-2020] Researcher at Team AIBOD, Fukuoka, Japan.
[2015-2019] Research Intern at Team AIBOD, Fukuoka, Japan.
[2014] Java Developer at Nova OWSE Informatica ,Brazil.
[2011] Intern at Nova OWSE Informatica, Brazil.
[2009-2010] Founder and Software developer at BitWebJr, University Level Company, Brazil.

Runner-Up (Best Paper Award) - Edge-Driven Water Quality Monitoring and Prediction: A Spatio-Temporal GNN-based IoT Approach for Environmental Sensing - BDCAT2025 - Lia Anggraini, Elisha Elikem Kofi Senoo, Israel Rodrigues Soares, Thanda Shwe, Israel Mendonça, Masayoshi Aritsugi
Best Paper Award - Optimizing Wireless Sensor Network Topology With Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Source/Destination Scenarios - BDCAT2024 - Kosei Kobayashi, Pedro Henrique González, Masayoshi Aritsugi, Israel Mendonça
Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award (Third Place) - Disaster Image Tagging Using Generative Al for Digital Archives - JCDL 2024 - Kotaro Yasuda, Masayoshi Aritsugi, Yukiko Takeuchi, Akihiro Shibayama, Israel Mendonça
Best Poster Award - Not Seeing is a Flower: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Making IoT Platforms for Small-Scale Farms in Japan - IoT 2023 - Israel Mendonça, Angeline Chong, Masayoshi Aritsugi
Best Presentation Award - The 6th IIAE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Image Processing 2018

[2024-2029] Co-investigator — Elucidating the history of plant use through carbonized material embedded in pottery, and disseminating X-ray CT methods for the DX era (PI: Hiroki Obata). JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).
[2024-2027] Co-investigator — Research and development of low-cost smart IoT systems to promote DX in small-scale agriculture (PI: Masayoshi Aritsugi). JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
[2022-2024] Co-investigator — Development of an AI ultrasound (echo) system for elderly bowel-care (PI: Junko Yotsuya). JST A-STEP.
[2021-2023] Principal Investigator — Development of AI models for the classification of seed and insect impressions. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A).
[2020-2025] Co-investigator — Development of impression detection and identification methods using X-ray equipment (PI: Hiroki Obata). JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A).

[2024-current] Program Committee — ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
[2024-current] Senior Program Committee — ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
[2024-current] Technical Program Committee — IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
[2022-current] Program Committee — Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS)
[2021-current] Member — Kumadai-Hub Information Committee, Kumamoto University

Programming Languages: Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java, Scala, C, C++, Verilog
Database Languages: MongoDB, Sql, Postgres
Frameworks: React, Springboot
Machine Learning: Pytorch, Keras, Tensorflow
Others: Docker, Kubernetes (only basic), Kafka, Redis

When I was living in Brazil I often helped collecting and distributing food for poor communities in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.