Matheus Saldanha
MEXT Scholarship Student - Doctoral Program at The Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Tsukuba, Japan
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Top SchoolMatheus Saldanha is a doctoral researcher in computer science on a MEXT scholarship in Tsukuba, combining rigorous mathematics, statistics and computation across interdisciplinary problems from earthquake forecasting to low-resource machine translation. With nine years of research experience and top academic honors from his undergraduate studies in Brazil, he has contributed high-performance computing methods for protein structure problems, developed theoretical learning guarantees for time series, and published work linking solar and tidal data to short-term earthquake forecasts. His dual master’s training in Statistics (USP) and Computer Science (Tsukuba) informs a toolkit that spans extreme value theory, dynamical systems embeddings, statistical learning theory, and neural networks. Recent work at KIT explored cross-lingual transfer and language-distance metrics for multilingual translation, reflecting a growing interest in practical NLP under data scarcity. Colleagues praise his ability to learn new tools quickly and to bridge theory and application—an asset for postdoctoral or research internship roles starting in 2026.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at USP - Universidade de São PauloDoctor's Degree, Computer Science, Doctor's Degree, Computer Science at University of TsukubaUniversity of São Paulo
Japanese, English, Portuguese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
recurrent-neural-networks8
echo7
ascii7
reservoir7
tron6
python6
regex6
java6
algorithm6
machine-learning-algorithms5
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence5
rust4
deep-learning3
architectures3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matheushjs/ElfScripts
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch, 7 issues in 3 years 4 months
matheushjs/ElfProbTET
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:180 commits, 54 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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