I hold a computer engineering degree, a master's degree in electrical engineering and a PhD degree in computer engineering, all earned from the State University of Campinas, Unicamp, Brazil. From July/2006 to February/2021, I was affiliated with the Graduate Program in Applied Informatics at University of Fortaleza (lately, as a full professor), investigating novel approaches in the broad area of intelligent systems.Currently, I am much interested in the application of machine learning, deep learning, data science and optimization to areas such as finance (aka quantitative finance), business analytics, and decision making.My updated CV (in Portuguese) is available here: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8377890158420707. You can also access my personal home page (in English) by this link: https://sites.google.com/site/coelhoalvIf you wish a PDF version of my CV in English, please drop me a message.Key words: Machine learning, data mining & data science, optimization, pattern recognition, time series forecasting, computational finance, game theory.