Dr. Roche‐Lima earned his MS. from the University Federal de Santa Catarina and his PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Manitoba, Canada.  He has a broad background in applying computer science to complex biological data.  He joined the Medical Science Campus, University of Puerto Rico (MSC, UPR), where he works as an Assistant Professor teaching topics such as data science, bioinformatics and biomedical informatics. His research areas are focused on the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for the prediction, analysis, and interpretation of biomedical data.  He is also the Director of the Integrated Informatics Service Core (IIS) and Coordinator of the Research Infrastructure Core (RIC) of the Center for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities, which is a federally funded center for minority institutions at MSC, UPR. The goals of these cores are to provide one point of contact to assist researchers with the general aspects of biomedical informatics (i.e. bioinformatics, health informatics, and operational informatics) and other related areas (e.g. genomics and proteomics) as they apply to the biomedical science research.