Summary
Jose De Jesus Filho is a professor and researcher who applies statistical learning and NLP to legal data, leveraging 14 years of prior practice as a lawyer to ground his analyses in real-world judicial processes. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and advanced legal training from USP and Brasília, and currently teaches at PUC-SP while serving as jurimetrista at the São Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Office. Over the past eight years he has developed multiple R packages and pipelines to scrape, clean, and analyze hundreds of thousands of Brazilian judicial decisions, enabling evidence-based insights for universities, NGOs, companies, and courts. His work sits at the intersection of law, machine learning, and public security, with a practical focus on criminal justice metrics and policy-relevant outcomes. Colleagues value him for turning complex legal texts into reproducible datasets and for bringing academic rigor to operational decision-making. Based in São Paulo, he combines scholarly publication and hands-on consulting to translate jurimetrics into measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Criminal Justice and Corrections, Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Criminal Justice and Corrections at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Fundação Getulio Vargas
University of São Paulo
Master of Laws - LLM, Criminal Justice and Corrections, Master of Laws - LLM, Criminal Justice and Corrections at Universidade de Brasília