Pablo Barros
Lead Research Scientist at Sony
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolPablo Barros is a Lead Research Scientist with 10 years of experience applying deep, self-supervised, and graph neural networks to build adaptive user profiles, recommendation systems, and interactive agents for the entertainment industry. He blends academic rigor—a PhD from Universität Hamburg and roles mentoring students as an external professor—with product-driven research at Sony, turning affective computing and multimodal perception models into real-time, privacy-aware applications. His background spans mental-health sensing from wearables to human-robot interaction on platforms like iCub, giving him rare expertise at the intersection of affective AI, time-series physiological modeling, and real-world deployment. Based in Brussels, he is passionate about ethical, explainable AI and frequently bridges cross-disciplinary teams to move cutting-edge models from lab prototypes into scalable industry solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Engineering at Universidade de PernambucoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Magna cum laude at Universität HamburgUFRPE, Information Technology, UFRPE, Information Technology at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Portuguese, Spanish, German, English
Github Skills (28)
emotion-recognition10
emotion10
emotion-analysis10
deep-learning10
emotion-detection10
python-interface9
bots7
dlib6
q-learning6
agent6
face-recognition6
hat6
face-detection6
python6
reinforcement-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pablovin/AffectiveMemoryFramework
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
pablovin/ChefsHatGYM
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contains the GYM environment for the Chefs Hat game
Contributions:2 releases, 65 commits, 201 pushes in 1 year 7 months
chefsgymgym-environmenthat
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