Renan Cortes
Full-time Professor (Tenure Track) at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolRenan Cortes is a data science leader and tenure-track statistics professor with nine years of industry and academic experience, combining a Ph.D. in Economics and a postdoc in Spatial Statistics from UC Riverside. He builds production-ready ML systems and recommendation engines using PySpark, Python, R, and cloud-native tools, and has led cross-functional teams at Sicredi and Agi. An active open-source core developer of PySAL and the main author of the Python segregation library, he bridges rigorous spatial/econometric research with practical BI and visualizationâauthoring public Shiny platforms like VisualizaDEE. Comfortable from low-level SQL and data lakes to reinforcement-learning bandits in production, he also teaches and develops curriculum, reflecting a rare mix of applied engineering, reproducible research, and public-sector analytics.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelorâs Degree Statistics, Bachelorâs Degree Statistics at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulPostdoctorate Spatial Statistics/Software Development, Postdoctorate Spatial Statistics/Software Development at University of California, RiversideDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Economics at PontifĂcia Universidade CatĂłlica do Rio Grande do SulMasterâs Degree Statistics, Masterâs Degree Statistics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (116)
python10
springer10
geography10
spatial10
geopandas10
statistics10
pysal10
spatial-interpolation10
conda10
interpolation10
census10
spatial-data10
sparklyr10
geospatial10
spatial-analysis10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
renanxcortes/tobler
Aug 2019 - Apr 2026
Areal interpolation
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
interpolationareal
renanxcortes/VisualizaFEE
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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