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

cmu 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 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 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 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 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

Awards/Grants

 
 
 
 
 

Google LARA - Latin America Research Awards 2020

google

Dec 2020 – Nov 2021
 
 
 
 
 

Research Internships Abroad Grant

FAPESP

Mar 2020 – Mar 2021
 
 
 
 
 

Google LARA - Latin America Research Awards 2019

google

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020
 
 
 
 
 

Google LARA - Latin America Research Awards 2018

google

Oct 2018 – Sep 2019
 
 
 
 
 

Ph.D. Research Grant

FAPESP

Oct 2018 – Dec 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Distinguished Student Award

SBC Brazilian Society for Computing - SBC

Jan 2003 – Jan 2003
 
 
 
 
 

Student Merit Medal - Best Computer Science Undergraduate

UFRN Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN.

Dec 2002 – Dec 2002