Chico Camargo
Senior Lecturer In Computer Science at University of Exeter
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChico Camargo is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Exeter and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, blending a decade of academic research with hands-on data science. He develops computational methods at the intersection of computational social science, complex systems, cultural evolution, and information theory to study how ideas spread and evolve. His background spans theoretical work in network science and statistical mechanics to applied models of public opinion dynamics, information diffusion, and mobility. Chico is also an experienced science communicator, with bylines in Science and HuffPost Brazil and over 50 YouTube videos that translate complex research for broader audiences. Notably, his trajectory began in molecular and evolutionary systems biology, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on cultural and biological evolution. He maintains an active online presence (camargo.cool, cclab.science) that showcases both his research and public engagement.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of OxfordUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
scrape9
thunderbird8
probe8
telemetry8
mozilla7
duckduckgo7
publish7
firefox7
python2
nlp1
matching1
analytics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
evoluchico/artsy
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
evoluchico/cclab.github.io
Mar 2021 - Jan 2025
CC Lab website
Contributions:2 PRs, 69 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
lablab-website
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