Rion Correia
Data Science Senior Manager
Sintra, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRion Correia is a Data Science Senior Manager and complexity scientist with a PhD in Complex Networks & Systems and an MBA, combining a decade of interdisciplinary research and product leadership to improve human health and commercial analytics. He leads R&D and automation teams at NielsenIQ, driving research-intensive product enhancements in FMCG non-cooperator estimation and deploying Generative AI/LLMs to automate complex analytical reasoning. His background spans computational biology, network science, and population-level data work—ranging from Boolean gene networks and EHRs to social media and crowd-sourced retail signals—giving him rare fluency across micro-to-macro health systems. An experienced founder and CEO of a tech consultancy, he translates academic advances into operational products for industry and government while serving as an elected Portuguese delegate to the European Works Council. Notably, he blends hands-on model innovation with organizational strategy, repeatedly turning heterogeneous, messy data into actionable, scalable insights.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Organizational Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Organizational Management at Universidade Regional de BlumenauDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Complex Networks & Systems track of Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Complex Networks & Systems track of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
boolean9
redundancy9
information-theory7
doc2vec7
python-interface6
word2vec6
python6
csv5
json4
yaml4
theory4
effort4
cli3
fact2
fact-checking1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rionbr/rionbr.github.io
Feb 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
CASCI-lab/CANA
Mar 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 8 months
pythonnetworksboolean-networksbooleanredundancy
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