Rafael Calvo is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence applied to automatic document classification (e.g. web site classification). He has taught at several Universities, high schools and professional training institutions. He worked at the Language Technology Institute in Carnegie Mellon University, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) and on sabbaticals at The University of Cambridge and University of Memphis. Rafael also has worked as an Internet consultant for projects in Australia, Brasil, the US and Argentina. Rafael is the recipient of 5 teaching awards, and the author of two books and many publications in the fields of learning technologies, affective computing and computational intelligence. Rafael is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and Senior Member of IEEE.
Dr Rafael Calvo’s contributions are centred around developing data mining algorithms and software architectures that integrate into real world applications. These applications are referred to as Intelligent Information Systems and he has created both web-based and mobile application systems.