Marcelo Dos Santos
Senior Researcher at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcelo Dos Santos is a Senior Researcher with eight years of experience building and optimizing numerical, statistical, and machine-learning solutions for scientific and industrial problems. He has led international collaborations and managed teams to deliver reproducible, scalable software and data pipelines—work that contributed to nearly 20 peer-reviewed publications and an international telescope experiment. Marcelo bridges academic rigor and industry impact, having implemented FEM-based geomechanical simulations for oil prospecting and developed Monte Carlo and synthetic-data generators for large-scale astrophysical analyses. He is pragmatic about tools, fluent in the Python data stack, and skilled at profiling and productionizing research code. Known for mentoring junior researchers and coordinating cross-team projects, he prioritizes documented, maintainable solutions that anticipate future needs. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he is actively seeking data science and technology opportunities that leverage his statistical and simulation expertise.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Física, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Física at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroSpecialist Statistics for Data Science, Specialist Statistics for Data Science at PUC Minas
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
monte-carlo5
ipython4
jupyter-notebook4
python4
sampling4
bayesian3
scientific-computing3
bayesian-inference2
pythonic2
machine-learning2
visualization2
inference2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mvsantosdev/scientific-python-lectures
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 29 pushes in 2 years 2 months
pythonjupyter-notebookipython-notebooksscientific-computingscientific-computing-with-python
mvsantosdev/mvsantosdev
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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