Lucas Tavares
Data Scientist II
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Tavares is a Data Scientist II at OM1 with nine years of experience bridging neuroscience and machine learning, holding a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and a background in computer science and bioinformatics. He has led large-scale neural electrophysiology analyses—preprocessing terabytes of data across 131 brain regions—and developed state-of-the-art dimensionality reduction and deep learning pipelines achieving near-perfect decoding and strong cell-type classification performance. Comfortable in cloud environments (GCP, plans for AWS), he combines scientific rigor from international research stints (Uppsala, Eötvös Loránd) with production-minded tooling and teaching experience at Neuromatch Academy. Known for extracting sub-second brain dynamics and building deployable cross-animal models, he brings a rare mix of hands-on signal processing, statistical modeling, and scalable ML engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel em Ciência da Computação, Inteligência Artificial, Bacharel em Ciência da Computação, Inteligência Artificial at Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do NorteFederal University of Rio Grande do NorteStudent exchange program, Bachelor of Computer Science, Science Without Borders, Student exchange program, Bachelor of Computer Science, Science Without Borders at Eötvös Loránd UniversityDoctorate (sandwich), Neuroscience, Doctorate (sandwich), Neuroscience at Uppsala University
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (4)
javascript9
open-source9
signal1
neuroscience1
Github contributions (5)
tortlab/SignalAnalysis2020.2
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:31 commits in 2 months
lucaase/lucaase
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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