Lucas Peres
Visiting Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolLucas Peres is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Unicamp and a visiting researcher at CWI, specializing in algorithms and string processing for bioinformatics. With a decade of experience across research, teaching, and industry, he builds efficient pipelines and data structures to enable low-cost analysis of high-throughput DNA/RNA sequencing. His master's work on genome rearrangements informed phylogenetic inference, while his current PhD focuses on algorithmic advances for gene fusion detection in cancer transcriptomes. He has practical bioinformatics experience developing reproducible tools (e.g., UCEasy) and production sequencing pipelines at Scylla Informatics. Lucas also mentors undergraduates through algorithm and theory courses, blending rigorous theoretical foundations with hands-on software development. Based in São Paulo, he combines algorithmic rigor with applied genomics to make large-scale sequencing analysis faster and more reproducible.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de CampinasBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Cesupa - Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (3)
phylogeny6
bioinformatics6
genomics6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lucper/emacs-setup
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
meidanis-lab/rank-indel
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:107 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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