Roberto Ulloa
Postdoctoral Researcher at GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRoberto Ulloa is a Berlin-based postdoctoral researcher and data scientist with 14 years of experience bridging computer science and social science through agent-based modelling, data analysis, and software development. He holds a PhD focused on cultural diversity in artificial societies and has applied that expertise across academic and research institutions—building simulation models, NLP tools, and research infrastructure from Django/Python stacks to NetLogo and R. At GESIS and the University of Konstanz he combines methodological rigor with practical engineering to turn social-science questions into reproducible computational experiments. His background also includes industry data-science roles and mentoring international interns, reflecting a talent for translating research into applied insights and team capacity building. Notably, his work blends deep domain knowledge of cultural diversity with hands-on experience in OCR, virtual language assistants, and multi-agent security experiments—an uncommon mix that informs both novel research and robust tooling.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Universidad de Costa RicaPhD. Student, Cultural Diversity in Artificial Societies: Case Studies of the Maya peoples, PhD. Student, Cultural Diversity in Artificial Societies: Case Studies of the Maya peoples at The University of Western Ontario
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (200)
graph-algorithms10
python10
windows10
firefox-addon10
automation10
graph-visualization10
graph-theory10
javascript10
pandas10
linux10
webscraping10
firefox10
dom-events10
search-engine10
data-science10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
robertour/CulSim
Nov 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 releases, 168 commits, 180 pushes in 1 year 10 months
gesiscss/WebBot
Jun 2021 - May 2022
Browser extension to simulate browsing behaviour in search engines.
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 14 pushes in 11 months
browser-extensionsearch-engineautomationauditfirefox
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