Lauro Lins
Principal Inventive Scientist at AT&T Labs, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauro Lins is a Principal Inventive Scientist at AT&T Labs with ~18–20 years bridging academic research and production software, specializing in visualization, data indexing, and optimization. He holds a PhD in Computational Mathematics and has driven influential research-to-production work—most notably the open-source NanoCube backend contribution (data compression and server improvements) which helped a large real-time visualization project gain broad attention on GitHub. At AT&T he designed and delivered an optimization-driven system that reduced costly control signal volume by aligning human mobility patterns with network partitioning, now being field-deployed. Earlier roles include postdoctoral visualization research at Utah and a research faculty position at NYU, plus hands-on industrial optimization software development at a Brazilian startup. He combines first-principles rigor and a “no shortcuts” mindset, consistently turning mathematical insight into deployable systems that measurably improve large-scale networks.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Mathematics, cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Mathematics, cum laude at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Github Skills (6)
compression10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
compress10
binary-data9
data-handling9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
laurolins/nanocube
Aug 2013 - May 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 443 commits, 202 pushes in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lauro's primary contribution was implementing data compression functionality for binary query results within the NanoCube server. This involved incorporating the zlib library to compress data, improving data transfer efficiency. The commits also included modifications to the build process (adding -lz flag to link the zlib library) and minor bug fixes that improved the sharing mechanism and fixed a problem on the main program.
laurolins/laurolins.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:11442 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
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