History



  • imperial college

    1992-1995

    Initial Works in the Area

    Prof. Braga completes his PhD on Storage Capacity of Recurrent Neural Networks at Imperial College London, England.

  • 1996-2000

    LITC is Created

    LITC is founded and first graduate students were supervised in the area.

  • 2000s

    Private Funding

    First joint projects with private companies, which funded scholarships and lab infrastructure.


    Multi-objective learning

    Initial publications of the pioneer work on multi-objective learning of neural networks. Concerns with network design and complexity functions.

  • industry

    2000-2007

    Application-Oriented Problems

    Increased proximity with private companies and application-oriented works.

  • 2007-2015

    International Cooperation

    Consolidation of international cooperations, which included University of Alberta (Canada), Université Paris-Est (France), Université Catholique de Louvain and University of Linköping (Sweden).

  • Graph Plot

    2014-2018

    Initial Works on Graph-Based Neural Networks

    First publications and development of basic principles of graph-based classifiers.

  • 2018-Present

    New Projects with Private Companies

    LITC is mainly funded by projects supported by private companies, which provide many scholarships for students and lab infrastructure.

  • 2019-Present

    Increase in Publications Throughput

    Better organization of lab infrastructure and within group interactions resulted on the increase of publications.