Summary
Alan Guedes is a Computer Science lecturer at the University of Reading with 13 years of research and engineering experience bridging multimedia systems, video technologies, and applied machine learning. He earned a PhD focusing on multimodal, multiuser multimedia scene descriptions and has led industry- and government-funded projects that turned research into deployable TV and video solutions used by manufacturers and low-income communities. His postdoctoral work at UCL advanced 360-degree video streaming and profile-based delivery methods, while earlier roles combined leadership, software development and anomaly-detection systems for finance and content moderation. Comfortable moving between academia and applied R&D, he has a track record of supervising students, organizing community workshops, and delivering award-winning interactive TV platforms. An understated strength is his ability to translate standardization-oriented research into practical conformance suites and production-ready implementations.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Portuguese, English, Spanish