Rodrigo Ferreira
Senior Research Scientist, Quantum Applications
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRodrigo Neumann is a Senior Research Scientist with a PhD in Computational Physics and over a decade at IBM translating advanced computational methods into real-world materials and sustainability solutions. He leads quantum applications for materials science, driving client-facing projects and cross-organizational initiatives that produced multiple publications, patents, and awards for carbon capture, energy storage, and semiconductor simulation. Fluent in Python, C++ and cloud engineering, he builds cloud-enabled toolkits and multimodal AI systems that accelerate end-to-end materials discovery. Rodrigo combines deep academic output—45+ publications and 32 patent grants—with hands-on program leadership and talent development, having recruited and mentored new teams and organized working groups and conferences. Based in Yorktown, NY, he uniquely bridges foundational ab initio simulation expertise with emerging quantum computing use cases to tackle climate-relevant materials challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French
Github Skills (170)
network-graph10
modeling-tool10
truncation9
armadillo9
intellisense9
modeling9
api8
itsdangerous8
scientific-computing8
python8
flask-restful8
solver8
neopixel8
expression-template8
prediction-model8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/iot-cloud-ai-tutorial
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 7 days
edge-computingcloud-computingartificialmachine-learningtensorflow
neumannrf/electronic-structure-experiment
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Uses the CP2K software package to run DFT simulations on nanoporous materials.
Contributions:15 reviews, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.