Focus Period Halmstad University 2026
Full Professor
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sol (Brazil)
Prof. Dante Augusto Couto Barone is a Full Professor at the Institute of
Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil,
and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for New Technologies in
Education (CINTED). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, and completed
postdoctoral training at Aalto University, Finland, and CNET, France. His
research interests include Artificial Intelligence for sustainability,
machine learning, natural language processing, ethics in AI, robotics, and
innovative educational technologies. Prof. Barone has held senior academic
leadership positions at UFRGS and has served as visiting professor or
researcher at leading universities and research centers in Europe and the
United States. He has coordinated and participated in numerous international
research projects, supervised over 40 Ph.D. students, and published
extensively in high-impact scientific venues.