Ítalo Santana
Senior Research Scientist at Dell Technologies
Greater Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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Top SchoolÍtalo Santana is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of Operations Research and Machine Learning, currently driving research and IP development at Dell Technologies. His PhD work and internships applied graph neural networks and ML-guided heuristics to NP-hard routing and combinatorial optimization problems, yielding multiple peer-reviewed papers. He bridges theory and practice by using ML to speed OR solvers and conversely applying OR techniques to accelerate ML training, with hands-on expertise in C/C++, Python, Julia (JuMP), and CPLEX. Past roles span data science in production cloud environments (AWS, Spark, NLP) and full-stack/system analyst work, reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic research and engineering delivery. Notably, his research has produced tangible solver improvements for vehicle routing and minimum latency problems, making him effective at translating academic advances into business-facing technologies.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad program, Computer Science, Study Abroad program, Computer Science at The University of Western AustraliaMaster's degree, Combinatorial Optimization, Master's degree, Combinatorial Optimization at Universidade Federal FluminensePontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Tocantins
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (20)
greedy5
quantum-mechanics4
benchmarking4
rio4
ising-model4
simulated-annealing3
python3
python-bindings3
quantum-computing3
optimization3
depth3
cmake2
vehicle-routing-problem2
computational-science2
tlaplus2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
italogs/italogs.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
italogs/HGS-CVRP
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Modern implementation of the hybrid genetic search (HGS) algorithm specialized to the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP). This code also includes an additional neighborhood called SWAP*.
Contributions:102 pushes in 2 years
swapgeneticcvrpadditionalneighborhood
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