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 visualization—authoring 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
Bachelor’s Degree Statistics, Bachelor’s 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 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do SulMaster’s Degree Statistics, Master’s Degree Statistics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (151)
measurement10
python10
springer10
forge10
geography10
geopandas10
statistics10
dplyr10
pysal10
spatial-interpolation10
decomposition10
conda10
census10
meta10
sparklyr10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
renanxcortes/VisualizaFEE
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes in 3 years 6 months
pysal/segregation
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Segregation Measurement, Inferential Statistics, and Decomposition Analysis
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 655 commits in 1 year
statisticsgeospatialpythonspatial-analysisdecomposition
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