Pedro Da Costa Avelar
Postdoctoral Research Associate
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPedro Da Costa Avelar is a research-focused machine learning scientist with 11 years of experience, currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester after completing a PhD in Bioinformatics at King's College London. His work blends deep learning, graph neural networks and multimodal integration to tackle biomedical challenges such as cancer prognosis, single-cell cell-type identification and ALS patient stratification, and he has applied nucleotide LLMs to DNA sequences. He has a track record of translating cutting-edge research into practical tools—building core GNN libraries, optimizing COVID-19 forecasting pipelines to run 10× faster, and deploying radiomics workflows with U-Net segmentation. A seasoned educator and mentor, he has taught machine learning at LSE and KCL and co-supervised student projects on NP-complete problems, reflecting a rare mix of theoretical depth and applied systems engineering. Notably, his background spans industry and academia across Brazil, the UK and Singapore, giving him a global perspective on deploying ML in regulated and clinical contexts.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulEngineer's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineer's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFUDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at King's College LondonExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Catalan, Italian
Github Skills (30)
video-production6
optimization6
arxiv6
openshot6
editing5
video-quality5
bayesian5
video-editing5
ffmpeg5
machine-learning5
python5
dedicated5
animation4
gradient4
deep-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phcavelar/cifar-superpixel
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
machine-reasoning-ufrgs/typed-graph-network
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes in 9 months
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