Antônio Theóphilo

Ph.D. Student

Institute of Computing/University of Campinas - UNICAMP

I am a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Computing/University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing under the supervision of professor Anderson Rocha and member of RECOD Lab.

The title of my Ph.D. project is “Fighting Fake News Through Authorship Attribution and Phylogeny Analysis”. During the year of 2020, I am at the Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting scholar, working on my research over phylogeny analysis at the Language Technologies Institute/School of Computer Science, under the supervision of professor Yulia Tsvetkov.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Machine/Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Information Forensics
Information Security

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, 2018 - present

University of Campinas - UNICAMP

GPA 4.0/4.0
M.Sc. in Informatics - Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, 2005

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio

GPA 9.5/10.0
B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2002

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN

GPA 9.14/10.0

Skills

Machine/Deep Learning

Natural Language Processing

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Programming

Scientific Writing

Scientific Research

System Administration

Information Security

System/Project Development

Teaching

Experience

Visiting Research Scholar

Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute

Mar 2020 – Present Pittsburgh/USA

Research in the fields of Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing under the supervision of Prof. Yulia Tsvetkov

Ph.D. Intern

Microsoft/Bing

Dec 2019 – Feb 2020 Redmond/USA

Research and development of models in the fields of Machine/Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing to improve the Bing user experience. The models were deployed in production, with excellent results, increasing the queries coverage to a great extent.

Responsibilities included:

Analysis
Modelling
Development
Testing

Head of Information Systems Security Division

CTI Renato Archer

Feb 2015 – Aug 2017 Campinas/Brazil

Management of Information Systems Security Division. The division conducts projects and researches in the information security field and its expertises are: collection and analysis of cyber attacks and social media data, IT risk analysis, security tests, malware analysis and development of systems to support these activities using agile methodologies.

Researcher

CTI Renato Archer

Jul 2013 – Present Campinas/Brazil

On leave for Ph.D. studies - Research in the fields of machine learning, pattern recognition, digital forensics and information security. Management of systems development.

Head of Information Security and Computer Infrastructure

Freeddom

Aug 2005 – Jul 2013 São Paulo/Brazil

Start-up company of mobile payment business. I have helped to create and manage the team responsible for all the network, hardware and software infrastructure (+350 physical servers, +150 desktops), as well as responsible for the information security.

Major responsibilities of this team:

Keep production environment up and secure 24x7
Support other teams and their environments (development, homologation, QA, business)
Develop infrastructure applications and solutions