Diego Pinheiro
Professor Permanente at PPGEC UPE - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia da Computação
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolDiego Pinheiro is a Professor and research leader specializing in computational intelligence, data science, and network science with a decade of experience bridging academia, health care, and industry. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Florida Tech and completed a postdoc at UC Davis focused on applied computing for medicine and public health, later co-founding Vitally Health to translate ML-driven insights into digital therapies for heart failure. At UNICAP he directs LoyolaLab and leads interdisciplinary projects funded by NSF, Pfizer, CAPES and Brazilian state agencies, including AI systems for anti–money laundering and anomaly detection in industrial machinery. An active IEEE leader and conference chair, he combines grant-winning research with hands-on startup CTO experience and international collaborations across Latin America and Europe. Notably, his work spans from supervising NSF-backed undergraduate research to deploying data-driven solutions in clinical and industrial settings, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and translational impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Scholarship Computer Science in Medicine and Public Health, Postdoctoral Scholarship Computer Science in Medicine and Public Health at University of California, DavisMaster's Degree Swarm Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, Master's Degree Swarm Intelligence and Computational Intelligence at Universidade de PernambucoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (13)
swarm-intelligence9
particle-swarm-optimization9
swarm7
mongodb7
pymongo7
network6
python6
graph-theory5
odm5
orm4
mapper4
health1
community-detection1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
diegompin/data_science
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
diegompin/acs_wrapper
Oct 2018 - May 2019
American Community Survey (ACS) Wrapper
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
acsamerican-community-surveysurveyamerican
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