Summary
Marcelo Viridiano is a senior visual designer and researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of design, linguistics, and multimodal AI. He leads visual identity and event design for major ACL conferences while advancing Frame Semantics research toward practical multimodal machine translation through image-text processing. His background spans academic research (PhD work and visiting positions at Case Western Reserve and Universität Leipzig), design-led product work for public health and language tools, and repeated mentorship in Google Summer of Code projects. Comfortable moving from branding and UI to dataset-driven annotation pipelines, he pairs meticulous design craft with a taste for uncertainty that drives experimental solutions in multimodality. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he blends scholarly rigor with hands-on delivery for research platforms and large-scale academic events.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado Sanduíche, Linguistics, Doutorado Sanduíche, Linguistics at Universität Leipzig
Doutorado, Linguistics, Doutorado, Linguistics at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora