Summary
André Lage-freitas is a Head of Innovation and Associate Professor with 11+ years bridging academic research and product-driven AI engineering, leading R&D teams to deliver ML and NLP solutions for industry. At Code 55 he builds AI products for energy and document understanding while driving business development and tech transfer from university labs to market. His academic work includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science, leadership of large institutional research programs, and publications on court decision prediction and cloud big-data tooling. He has co-founded legaltech and proptech startups, consulted for national and international research agencies, and held EU and Microsoft-funded projects. Known for turning complex distributed-systems research into production prototypes (ETL, language models, OCR, and X-ray analysis), he pairs technical depth with a knack for securing grants and partnerships. Based in Maceió, Brazil, he blends international research collaborations with hands-on prompt engineering and startup execution.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at INSA Rennes
M.Sc., Computer Science - Distributed Systems, M.Sc., Computer Science - Distributed Systems at Université de Rennes I
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Universidade Federal da Bahia
Short Course: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, Artificial Intelligence, Short Course: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, Artificial Intelligence at deep learning AI
Colégio Mendel
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish