Prof. Dr. Igor Zwir received an M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1997 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Granada,
Granada, Spain, in 2001. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Granada and at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. He has been applying all of his original background in computational intelligence to system biology and bioinformatics problems for seven years, resulting in several publications in high-profile interdisciplinary journals His research interests in the biological field include genetic networks, transcriptional regulation, and gene expression dynamics. He also develops computational methods based on knowledge discovery based on conceptual clustering and evolutionary algorithms, genetic fuzzy systems, and control systems.
