curriculum vitae

PhD in Computer Science

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• Co-advised by Prof. Mirella M. Moro and Prof. Ana Paula Couto da Silva

MSc in Computer Science

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• Co-advised by Prof. Mirella M. Moro and Prof. Anisio Lacerda
• GPA: 92.0 out of 100
• Thesis: Analyses of Musical Success based on Time, Genre and Collaboration

BSc in Computer Science

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• Co-advised by Prof. Mirella M. Moro and Prof. Michele A. Brandão
• GPA: 91.3 out of 100
• Undergraduate thesis: Tie Strength in GitHub Heterogeneous Networks

High School Technical Degree in Computer Networks

Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Data Scientist

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais + Ministério Público do Estado de Minas Gerais

• Member of the Analytical Capabilities Project, conducted jointly by UFMG's Computer Science Department and Ministério Público do Estado de Minas Gerais (MPMG).
• The activities include acting in the construction of audit trails to detect evidence of fraud in public bids, as well as implementing the classification and enrichment of public expenditure data.

Research Assistant

Project Bàde, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• This project aims to define semantic metrics based on data from social networks in order to develop different applications and services for them.

Data Science Intern

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais + Localiza

• Member of the Data Science Residency Program conducted jointly by UFMG's Computer Science Department and Localiza, a specialized company in car rentals in Brazil and Latin America.
• The activities included developing descriptive machine learning models using techniques such as clustering, frequent pattern and association rule mining.

Software Engineering Intern

dti digital crafters, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• I worked on modeling SQL databases, creating APIs in C# .NET and developing interfaces in HTML5/CSS3 and AngularJS.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Project FoRGit, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• The goals of this project include building a heterogeneous social collaboration network from GitHub, analyzing new parameters that measure the interactions between GitHub developers and propose new metrics for their social capital.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• Teaching assistant in Computer Programming classes for Engineering and exact sciences students.

IT Support Intern

Support Center for e-Learning, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• I developed activities in IT support, including network and server management, user support, support to audiovisual content production and web conferencing management.

Best Master's Thesis

5th Contest of Theses and Dissertations on Databases - Brazilian Symposium on Databases

• Prize awarded for my Master's thesis Analyses of musical success based on time, genre and collaboration.

Best Paper Award

11th Workshop on Applied Computing in Electronic Government

• Prize awarded for the paper Análise de Sobrepreço em Itens de Licitações Públicas.

Best Master's Thesis - Runner-up

35th Contest of Theses and Dissertations on Databases - Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society

• One of the ten Master theses selected for presentation at the Theses and Dissertations Contest of the Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society.

Best Paper Award

11th Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining

• Prize awarded for the paper Alertas de fraude em licitações: Uma abordagem baseada em redes sociais.

Best Paper Award

18th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music

• Prize awarded for the paper Hot Streaks in the Brazilian Music Market: A Comparison Between Physical and Digital Eras.

Best Undergraduate Research Work

26th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web

• Prize awarded for the paper Classification and Persistence Analysis of Tie Strength on GitHub.

Best Paper Presentation

21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

• Prize awarded for the paper Detecting Collaboration Profiles in Success-based Music Genre Networks.

Best Graduating Student - 1st Runner-up

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• Prize awarded for the students that graduated with the highest GPA in the Computer Science Undergraduate Program.

Best Paper in Portuguese

24th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web

• Prize awarded for the paper Tie Strength in GitHub Heterogeneous Networks.