I'm a PhD. in physics by Universidade de São Paulo, specialized in bayesian modelling and maximum entropy methods. Through my academic life I worked in mathematical models and techniques for problems ranging from semiconductor physics, financial markets, economics, behavioural finance and sociology.
On the private sector I've been working as a data scientist, applying techniques from machine learning, bayesian statistics and information retrieval to solve problems like complex record linkage, analysis of user behaviour, and recommender systems. My work provided insight into the products where I've worked, inspired and provided data for new features and helped in controlling database qual...