Eduardo Cortes
Senior AI Scientist at SAP
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolEduardo Cortes is a Senior AI Scientist with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UFRGS and a decade of experience building and researching NLP and deep learning systems, especially Question Answering and language generation. He has bridged academia and industry through a long-running collaboration with SAP at UNISINOS, moving research prototypes toward enterprise-grade solutions. His work emphasizes transformer-based models and generative approaches for tackling complex, non-factoid questions, informed by years of hands-on scholarship during his PhD and MSc. Eduardo also has teaching experience at technical and graduate levels, sharpening his ability to communicate complex ideas and mentor teams. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he combines rigorous research credentials with practical R&D execution in commercial NLP deployments—often focusing on problems where standard retrieval or classification methods fall short.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science Natural Language Processing | Question Answering, PhD in Computer Science Natural Language Processing | Question Answering at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulGraduação Ciência da Computação, Graduação Ciência da Computação at Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (19)
in-progress10
named-entity-recognition9
machine-translation9
language-processing9
datasets9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
bert6
binding5
fact4
normalization4
claims4
fact-checking3
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vwoloszyn/claim2features
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes in 4 months
eduardogc8/qa-chave
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:69 commits, 30 pushes in 2 years
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