Matheus Pestana
Professor at Grupo de Estudos dos Novos Ilegalismos (GENI-UFF)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolMatheus Pestana is a political scientist and data scientist with eight years of experience blending academic research, applied data work, and political advising in Brazil. He holds a master's and PhD in Political Science from IESP/UERJ and currently teaches data science at FGV ECMI while serving as professor at FGV Direito Rio. Matheus has led data efforts across research institutes and consultancies—coordinating data at GENI-UFF, founding Aether Inteligência Artificial, and driving analytic projects at ISER and Quaest. His expertise spans extraction, cleaning, exploratory analysis and modeling with practical applications in elections, government relations and the study of new illegalisms. Comfortable at the intersection of scholarship and applied analytics, he frequently turns complex political questions into reproducible data workflows and classroom-ready insights. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he brings a rare mix of rigorous academic training and hands-on product-focused data work.
8 years of coding experience
Doutorado Ciência Política, Doutorado Ciência Política at UERJBacharelado Ciência Política, Bacharelado Ciência Política at Federal University of the State of Rio de JaneiroEnsino Médio Ensino Médio Completo, Ensino Médio Ensino Médio Completo at Colégio de São Bento
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Russian
Github Skills (54)
pytorch10
instagram10
script10
arxiv10
selenium9
python9
text2image9
machine-learning9
stable-diffusion9
statistics9
ai9
image-generation9
deep-learning9
react9
deepface9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mateuspestana/curriculum_vitae
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
mateuspestana/mateuspestana.github.io
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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