Summary
Hallison Paz is a founder and applied AI research scientist with 11 years of experience building human-centered machine learning systems and educational tech initiatives from São Paulo. He combines a PhD-level background in computer graphics and deep learning with hands-on applied research—developing multimodal foundational models for sign language translation and scalable pose-data pipelines on multi-GPU clusters. As creator of Programação Dinâmica and co-founder of ALFORRIAH, he blends science communication, community building and ethical advocacy to promote humanized AI and practical learning paths for future data leaders. His career spans industry research at Meta and product-focused engineering roles, plus lecturing and course coordination at IMPA and Instituto Infnet, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor, production engineering and public-facing content creation. Notably, he has translated advanced generative and representation-learning ideas into deployable tooling and curricula that prioritize social impact and transparency.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Curso de Formação de Aspirantes, High School and Military School, Curso de Formação de Aspirantes, High School and Military School at Colégio Naval
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Auditeur Libre (1 semestre), Domaine des images, Auditeur Libre (1 semestre), Domaine des images at Télécom Paris
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Computer Graphics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Computer Graphics at IMPA
Curso Livre, Data Modeling and Data Mining, Curso Livre, Data Modeling and Data Mining at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Portuguese, English, French