Pedro Ruas
Tech Lead at ArcelorMittal
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Ruas is a tech lead and data scientist with a PhD and postdoc in computer science, bringing eight years of experience turning advanced analytics and NLP/text-mining expertise into business impact across academia and industry. He has led ML research and productionization—from fairness-aware HR models and custom transformers to time series forecasting and Streamlit dashboards—at companies like Rocketmat AI, Encora, and now ArcelorMittal. Pedro combines deep research chops (postdoc and assistant professor roles) with hands-on engineering in Python, AWS, and model orchestration, making him fluent at translating complex models into actionable insights for nontechnical stakeholders. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he has a track record of teaching graduate data science courses while shipping production ML pipelines, a blend that keeps his work both rigorous and pragmatic.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral, Computer Science, Postdoctoral, Computer Science at Université du Québec en OutaouaisBachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais / PUC MinasThe Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (22)
biomedical9
text-mining9
entity-extraction7
prediction7
information-extraction6
natural-language-processing6
machine-learning-algorithms5
synonym4
named-entity-recognition4
transformers4
deep-learning3
representations3
entity-linking3
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lasigeBioTM/REEL
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
REEL: Relation Extraction for Entity Linking
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
lasigeBioTM/MultiNEL-corpus
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
A multilingual silver standard corpus containing English, Portuguese and Spanish clinical case reports annotated with medical diagnostic codes
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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