Mateus Pestana
Data Scientist
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorMatheus 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
Github Skills (58)
speech-to-text10
selenium10
instagram10
whisper10
timestamps10
script10
speech10
asr10
timestamp10
diarization10
arxiv10
pytorch9
python9
automatic-speech-recognition9
stable-diffusion9
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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