Moacir Ponti
Machine Learning Senior Expert (Senior Staff) at Mercado Livre Brasil
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolMoacir Ponti is a Machine Learning Senior Expert and academic who blends 11+ years of research and industry experience to build fair, explainable, and human-centered AI at scale. At Mercado Libre he leads technical and scientific decisions across marketplace, fintech, and social network domains, delivering foundation models, multimodal systems, and fraud-prevention solutions with multi-million-dollar impact across Latin America. As an associate professor at Universidade de São Paulo he has published 50+ papers, co-authored a book on statistical learning theory, and supervises advancing research in deep and representation learning for multimodal data. Recognized by a Google Latin America Research Award, a long-standing CNPq fellowship, and a top-2% global scientist ranking, he uniquely bridges academic rigor with product-driven ML engineering. Known for operationalizing state-of-the-art methods under noisy, adversarial constraints, he also builds shared tooling and standards for large teams, acting as a technical reference for 160+ practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology - 3D Image Restoration and Frequency Extrapolation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology - 3D Image Restoration and Frequency Extrapolation at UFSCar - AlumniBachelor's degree, Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician at Universidade de Franca
Github Skills (13)
science7
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
python6
data-science5
classification1
pytorch1
computer-vision1
extraction1
image-generation1
tensorflow1
feature-extraction1
image-classification1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maponti/imageprocessing_course_icmc
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
maponti/deeplearning_intro_datascience
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
Minicurso Deep Learning: Introduction to Data Science
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learning
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