Summary
Eric Dos Santos is a postdoctoral researcher and AI practitioner with a decade of experience bridging research and production in XAI, data engineering, and business intelligence. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Dublin City University and has led projects applying explainable AI to medical imaging, recruitment, and video classification through collaborations with Insight Research and Imperial College London. With a background in systems architecture, ETL, and AWS data pipelines, he moves fluently between research on deep representations and hands-on implementation of scalable data systems. He has taught business intelligence and programming, acted as a technical coordinator/Scrum Master, and brings practical product-side experience from roles in data science and engineering. Notably, his doctoral work focused on extracting concepts, relations, and rules from CNN representations—reflecting a rare blend of symbolic and deep learning expertise.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
English Interchange, English Language and Literature/Letters, English Interchange, English Language and Literature/Letters at ISI Dublin
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
University of California, San Diego
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Dublin City University
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Gama Filho
Portuguese, English