Lygia Da Costa
Software Engineer
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolLygia Da Costa is a software engineer and medical doctor with 12 years of experience bridging AI-driven engineering and clinical practice, currently working in an Emergency Care Unit in Rio de Janeiro while preparing for surgical residency. She holds an M.Sc. in Systems and Computer Engineering with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and an engineering degree in Computer and Information Engineering, complementing her medical degree from UFF and training at ICBAS. Passionate about machine learning in healthcare, she focuses on applied AI for surgery and emergency medicine, bringing rare domain depth to technical projects. Open to international opportunities, she is actively improving her German to broaden clinical and research collaborations. Colleagues value her ability to translate clinical needs into technically sound ML solutions and to communicate across interdisciplinary teams. Her background—starting medicine after an AI-focused MSc—gives her a distinctive perspective on integrating research-grade algorithms into real-world medical workflows.
12 years of coding experience
Graduação, Medicine, Graduação, Medicine at Universidade Federal FluminenseMedicine, Medicine at ICBAS- Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical SciencesM.Sc Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação, Artificial Inteligence, M.Sc Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação, Artificial Inteligence at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (4)
linux1
windows1
cross-platform1
windows-gui1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NiltonDuarte/rc
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:38 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
lygiamarina/Mestrado---HPC
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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