Summary
Guilherme Ranoya is a design researcher and professor with a PhD from the University of São Paulo and over a decade of experience leading interdisciplinary research and teaching at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He coordinates MSc/PhD programs, the Visualization & Sense Making Lab (VISSE), and several university councils while organizing Brazil’s creative coding symposium Compoética, blending design, data science, and programming in curricula. His work investigates formative processes in design, visualization for work, and how experience and meaning shape interaction, often treating computational thinking as a core design tool. Known for bridging practice and theory, he leads the D+C research group and collaborates across information design, art-technology innovation, and education-for-innovation initiatives. Outside academia he dubs himself a creative technologist—and, playfully, a “hitman” in his spare time—hinting at a hands-on, experimental approach to design and code.
10 years of coding experience
Portuguese, English