Marcelo De Souza
Professor at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolMarcelo De Souza is a professor of artificial intelligence and PhD candidate in Computer Science at UFRGS with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and teaching in Brazil. His research focuses on automatic configuration of optimization algorithms, building on prior work in bi-objective traffic assignment for electric vehicles and international collaborations as a visiting researcher at The University of Manchester. He teaches in the Software Engineering department at UDESC while maintaining active research roles, demonstrating a rare combination of classroom impact and hands-on experimental optimization. Having studied both in Spain and Brazil, he brings a multicultural perspective to algorithmic design and applied AI for transport problems. Beyond academia, Marcelo’s profile signals a practical orientation toward reproducible, configurable optimization tools that can be deployed in real-world engineering contexts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program - Ingeniería Informática, Exchange Program - Ingeniería Informática at Universidad de LeónBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Systems at Universidade do Estado de Santa CatarinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, Spanish, English, galego
Github Skills (35)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
souzamarcelo/souzamarcelo.github.io
Apr 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
souzamarcelo/course-or
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:110 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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