MSc Intelligent Information Systems
School of Computer Science
Pittsburgh, PA
B.Eng. + M.Sc. Computer Science & Mathematics
Paris, France
B.Eng. Aeronautical Mechanics
S.J. Campos, Brazil
Good experience: Java, C++, MATLAB, JS/JQuery, PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS
Some experience: Python, C#, Scope, Groovy, Grails, VBA
Google Research - Strategic Technologies
Machine Learning & NLP Software Engineer.
Designed and built end-to-end diagnostics tool for data visualization, trend forecasting, and anomaly detection for Amazon’s A/B Testing team.
Worked with the Xbox Music team on the research and development of a one-class collaborative filtering engine for personalized music recommendation.
Data mining and business strategy project for CPIC, a major Chinese insurance group. Created a machine learning pipeline for clustering customers, products, and vendors in order to understand their profile and recommend optimal sales strategy.
Worked with the research team on data analysis and modeling for market penetration.
Worked with pricing of securities and with profitability computation of credit funds dealing with real estate receivable certificates (CRI) and real estate credit certificates (CCI).
Created NGO`s current MKT structure, with the elaboration of several projects, publicity material and donation platforms & funds. Raised, through several projects, more than R$ 40.000 (around USD 25.000) and was the winner of Embraer Institute`s Social Project Contest.
Taught mathematics at CASD Vestibulares for classes with over 120 students.
Designed and built a tool used by law enforcement agents that uses NLP and machine learning for detecting prostitution networks based on a daily updated database of millions of scraped online escort ads. The tool also tracks in near real-time how the prostitution networks move across the country, displaying relevant analytics and migration patterns.
Worked on development of an image descriptor combining both local and global features that envisaged the construction of a classifier to assess the aesthetic quality of photographs. Research topics included image descriptors, dimensionality reduction, clustering, image representation and statistical classification.
drsilva@cs.cmu.edu
