Short Bio

Dr Barros is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, UK. He leads the Unconventional Communications and Computing Laboratory.

He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Walton Institute, South East Technological University, Ireland, in 2016. He has held prestigious academic positions at Tampere University, Finland (MSCA-IF), and Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland (IRC GOI Postdoc). He is an External Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute organizing the Living Systems Interest Group. He is a gourp member of the AI-ready Bioscience Datasets Working Group for the AIBIO-UK network.

Dr. Barros has secured over €1.5M in research funding from the European Commission, BBSRC, Innovate UK, and others. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of EPSRC and BBSRC Engineering Biology Peer Review Colleges, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He received the CONNECT Prof. Tom Brazil Excellence in Research Award in 2020.

With over 90 peer-reviewed publications in top journals and conferences, his research focuses on Neuroengineering, Biocomputing, AI in Biology, Multiscale Biology, and Molecular Communication. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications and a review editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He has also served as a guest editor for Frontier in Cellular Neuroscience and IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications.