Prof. Patrick Letouze
Professor Patrick Letouze
Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil
Patrick Letouze is an Engineer of Control and Automation from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. He received his Master Science degree in Electrical Engineering in the field of Telecommunications applied to Signal Processing, and his Doctor of Science degree in Telecomunications applied to Health Informatics, both at the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
In the years of 2002 and 2003, he worked as an analyst of Science and Technology at the Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil. From 2004 to 2008 worked in his own company as a consultant of Research and Development for companies beneficiaries of the Informatics Law of Brazil.
Currently, he is a professor of the Department of Computer Science at the Universidade Federal do Tocantins - Brazil, since 2008. He is the founding director of the Nucleus of Software Development of the University in 2008 and he still holds this position. Additionally, since 2012, he is the founding vice-director of the Graduate Program of Computational Modeling of Systems. From 11/2012 to 05/2014, he was the director of research of the University and he left the position to be the founding director of the Graduate Program of Health and Science Education since 2015, and to be the elected president of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University.