Leandro Alvim
Professor at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLeandro Alvim is a Ph.D. computer scientist and associate professor at the Computer Science Department of UFRRJ, combining over a decade of academic leadership with hands-on experience linking research to industry. His work focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, optimization, graphs and algorithms, and he has coordinated applied research projects with companies like Buscapé. A scholarship-backed researcher (CNPQ, FAPERJ) and journal reviewer for Elsevier and FNRS, he brings rigorous experimental methods and peer-review insight to both teaching and consulting. Beyond academia, Leandro has practical industry experience from roles at Accenture and Synapsis, giving him a pragmatic perspective on deploying data-driven solutions. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he is known for bridging theoretical advances in metaheuristics and optimization with real-world applications in finance and NLP.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidade Federal FluminensePontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroM.S.c., Informatics, M.S.c., Informatics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (32)
regression-analysis10
regression-algorithms10
pls10
regression10
least-squares10
partial10
machine-learning9
machine-learning-algorithms9
meta-tags9
julia9
metadata8
tuning-parameters7
predictive-modeling7
clustering6
pipeline6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lalvim/PartialLeastSquaresRegressor.jl
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Implementation of a Partial Least Squares Regressor
Contributions:4 releases, 139 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 3 months
regressionleastsquaresplsjulia-languagepartial
lalvim/Perceptrons.jl
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 24 commits, 60 pushes in 10 months
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