Rafael De Lima
Research Scientist at IBM
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRafael De Lima is a research scientist and senior data scientist with 11 years of experience applying advanced statistical methods and machine learning to large experimental physics datasets. He holds a Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics from Northeastern University and has led teams of 20+ researchers at SLAC and CERN working on CMS analyses of LHC data. His career spans academia and industry—transitioning analytical rigor from searches for Higgs pair production and detector calibration into AI-for-science roles at Sanofi and IBM. Comfortable with data acquisition software, calibration systems and ML-driven object classification, he blends deep domain knowledge of particle detectors with practical engineering to turn complex data into actionable scientific insight. Based in Paris, he brings international experience across Fermilab, CERN, SLAC and industry research labs, often operating at the intersection of research, software development and team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Elementary Particle Physics, Master’s Degree Elementary Particle Physics at Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF)Bachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Universidade Federal de PernambucoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Elementary Particle Physics at Northeastern University
English, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (38)
markdown10
xlsx10
convert10
pdf-to-text10
pdf10
docx10
jekyll10
ai10
html10
documents10
github-pages9
detector9
gitpod9
high-energy-physics8
simulation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rteixeiradelima/rteixeiradelima.github.io
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:2 PRs, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
rateixei/si-mu-lator
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Si-μ-lator: Package for toy muon detector simulation
Contributions:3 reviews, 113 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year
detector-simulationtoysimulationdetectormuon
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