Clarissa Xavier
Técnico Em TI II at Banrisul
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolClarissa Xavier is a PhD computer scientist and computational linguist with 11+ years building NLP and knowledge-representation solutions for multicultural teams across industry and academia. She has led technical teams and R&D projects—from ASR and intent classification to ontology engineering and LLM optimization—translating research into production systems at companies like Meedan, Lojas Renner and SiDi. Currently combining teaching and research as a postdoctoral AI researcher and university instructor, she designs courses and mentors students in extraction of unstructured data and applied NLP. Her background spans hands-on engineering (Python, TensorFlow, ElasticSearch) and system architecture, and she frequently bridges academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery. Notably, she has contributed to multilingual semantic graph work and production-grade translation/memory systems that support independent journalism workflows.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Pós-doutorado Ciência da Computação, Pós-doutorado Ciência da Computação at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulEnsino Técnico Processamento de Dados, Ensino Técnico Processamento de Dados at Colégio Técnico IndustrialPós-graduação Stricto Sensu - Doutorado Ciência da Computação, Pós-graduação Stricto Sensu - Doutorado Ciência da Computação at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (16)
similarity-search10
language-detection10
fact-checking10
digital-humanities10
image-classification10
natural-language-processing9
development-environment9
creative-commons9
api8
journalism8
rest-api7
api-management4
content-management4
infinity2
machine-learning1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
meedan/dysl
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:64 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
meedan/nlp-tools
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:81 pushes in 3 months
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