Bachelor in Computer Science (2008), master and doctor in Systems and Computer Engineering (2012 and 2017, respectively), all from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. Previously a tenured professor at CEFET-RJ and researcher at Ci2-IPT, he is currently a researcher at CLUP. He is the author of dozens of peer-reviewed articles published in international scientific events and journals. He has supervised doctoral and master's theses as well as final projects by undergraduate students. In a broad sense, his topics of interest are Machine Learning, Data Science, and Complex Networks.