Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Full Professor

Head of the Multidisciplinary Computing Group
Coordinator of Cybernetic Vision Research Group

Luciano da F. Costa got BSs in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, a MSc in Applied Physics (Univ. of Sao Paulo), and a PhD in Electronic Engineering (King's College, Univ. of London). He is a full professor at the Institute of Physics at Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, where he coordinates the Interdisciplinary Computing Group.

Luciano's work has appeared in over 200 articles in magazines and indexed journals including Nature Communications, Scientific American, NewScientist, Advances in Physics, Physical Review Letters, Bioinformatics, Journal of Neuroscience, Interface, among many others. His publications have been cited over 2500 times in ISI/Web of Science. He is also the author of the book Shape Analysis and Classification (CRC Press, 2nd Edition), and is writing a book on the Multidisciplinary of Complex Networks for Cambridge University Press. He belongs to the Editorial Board of Neuroinformatics and Complex Networks (proposed to Oxford Univ. Press).

Luciano has been a Visiting Scholar at St Catherine's College, Univ. of Cambridge, a Visiting Professor at the University of Bourgogne, and a Member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute (Austria). He participated in a Human Frontier project with the Salk Institute and University of Vienna. His areas of interest include complex systems, complex networks, vision, image analysis, music, philosophy, arts, and pattern recognition.

Main research interests:

Complex Systems.
Complex Networks.
Image and Shape Analysis.
Pattern Recognition.
Biological and Computer Vision.

Contact Information:

Luciano da Fontoura Costa
(ldfcosta at gmail.com)
Institute of Physics at São Carlos
University of São Paulo
PO Box 369, São Carlos, São Paulo
13560-970, Brazil
Phone: +55 16 3373 9858
Fax: +55 16 3373 9879\n

Recent Main Publications:

Rafelski, M.S.; Viana, M.P.; Zhang, Y.; Chan, Y.-H.M.; Thorn, K.S.; Yam, P.; Fung, J.C.; Li, H.; Costa, L.da F. and Marshall, W.F.
Mitochondrial Network Size Scaling in Budding Yeast
Science, Volume 338, Issue 6108.
Journal Impact Factor: 31.2. (Nov, 2012)

Cristino, A S; Williams, S.M.; Hawi, Z.; An, J.-Y.; Bellgrove, M.A.; Schwartz, C.E.; Costa, L.da F. and Claudianos, C.
Neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders represent an interconnected molecular system
Molecular Psychiatry, 1476-5578.
Journal Impact Factor: 13.668 (Fev, 2013)

Escudero, L.M.; Costa, L.da F.; Kicheva, A.; Briscoe, J.; Freeman, M. and Madan Babu, M.
Epithelial organisation revealed by a network of cellular contacts
Nature Communications, Volume 2.
Times Cited: 1, Journal Impact Factor: 7.3 (Nov, 2011)

Perez-Reche, F.J.; Taraskin, S.N.; Otten, W.; Viana, M.P.; Costa, L.da F. and Gilligan, C.A.
Prominent Effect of Soil Network Heterogeneity on Microbial Invasion
Physical Review Letters, Volume 109, Issue 9.
Journal Impact Factor: 7.3 (Aug, 2012)

Handford, T.P.; Perez-Reche, F.J.; Taraskin, S.N.; Costa, L.da F.; Miazaki, M.; Neri, F.M. and Gilligan, C.A.
Epidemics in networks of spatially correlated three-dimensional root-branching structures
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Volume 8, Issue 56, Pages 423-434.
Times Cited: 2, Journal Impact Factor: 4.4 (Mar, 2011)

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Recent Publications:

Silva, F.N.; Rodrigues, F.A.; Oliveira Jr, O.N. and Costa, L.da F.
Quantifying the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals and fields
Journal of Informetrics. Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 469-477 (Apr, 2013)

de Arruda, G.F. and Costa, L.da F.
A complex networks approach for data clustering
Physica. A., Volume 391, Issue 23. (Dec, 2012)

Zawadzki, K.; Feenders, C.; Viana, M.P.; Kaiser, M. and Costa, L.da F.
Morphological Homogeneity of Neurons: Searching for Outlier Neuronal Cells
Neuroinformatics, Volume 10, Issue 4. (Oct, 2012)

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Books:

Costa, L.da F. and Cesar-Jr., R.M.
Shape Classification and Analysis: Theory and Practice, Second Edition
CRC Press, 2 edition. (2009)

Software:

Silva, F.N.; Travencolo, B.A.N.; Viana, M.P.; Antiqueira, L.; Rodrigues, F.A. and Costa, L.da F.
Concentric Properties of Networks Software (Aug, 2008)

Silva, F.N. and Costa, L.da F.
Network 3D Visualization Tools (Jun, 2012)

Fabbri, R. and Costa, L.da F.
Scilab Image Processing (2003)

Estrozi, L.F. and Costa, L.da F.
The Scale Space Skeletonization (1999)