Luis M. Rocha

Luis M. Rocha is the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University (State University of New York). He is also Visiting Professor at the Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where he is the Era Chair of the CBeRa project Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems for Advancing Biomedical Research. Dr. Rocha is a founding partner of the international Center for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences, a Fulbright Scholar, and was director of the NSF-NRT Complex Networks and Systems graduate Program in Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and senior fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal. He received the Lois B. DeFleur Prize for Academic Achievement at Binghamton University in 2025, and the Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2015 at Indiana University. His research is on complex systems and networks, computational and systems biology, biomedical complexity and digital health, and computational intelligence (including Artificial Life and Embodied Cognition). Provided by Wikipedia