Summary
Pedro Venâncio is an Associate Director of Artificial Intelligence with 8+ years of experience building AI systems that bridge research and production. He holds a Master’s in Computational Intelligence and is a PhD candidate in Optimization at UFMG, with visiting research ties to the University of Bristol, bringing strong academic rigor to industry problems. At BTG Pactual he leads teams delivering data-driven solutions across Legal, Wholesale Banking, Energy and Credit, with hands-on work in computer vision, NLP, optimization and multi-agent systems. His background includes deploying resource-constrained embedded AI for real-time monitoring and developing an R package for fuzzy spatial analysis, showing a knack for both applied research and production engineering. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Pedro blends operations research and ML to tackle complex, cross-domain challenges and prioritize solutions that scale in the real world.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Doctor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
PhD (Visiting Researcher), Engineering Mathematics, PhD (Visiting Researcher), Engineering Mathematics at University of Bristol
English, Portuguese