Roney Santos
Professor Adjunto at UFBA - Universidade Federal da Bahia
Bahia, Brazil
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Top SchoolRoney Santos is an assistant professor and NLP researcher with a decade of experience focused on automatic detection and filtering of fake news in Portuguese. He holds a PhD from USP São Carlos and built his expertise through roles at UFPI, Estácio, and now UFBA's Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation. His work spans Natural Language Processing, AI, and deception detection, blending academic research with hands-on tool development for real-world misinformation problems. A former visiting researcher at the University of Sheffield, he brings international collaboration experience to his projects. Beyond academia, Roney’s background as a software technician informs pragmatic, implementation-oriented approaches to NLP systems that prioritize language-specific challenges.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mestre em Ciência da Computação, Mestre em Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal do PiauíTécnico em Informática (Desenvolvimento de Software), COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Técnico em Informática (Desenvolvimento de Software), COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí - IFPIVisiting Researcher, Computer Science, Visiting Researcher, Computer Science at The University of SheffieldUniversity of São Paulo
English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
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Github Skills (1)
corpus10
Github contributions (5)
roneysco/Fake.br-Corpus
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
We introduce the Fake.Br Corpus, which is composed of aligned true and fake news written in Brazilian Portuguese.
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 2 months
portuguese-braziliancorpusintroducebrazilianfake-news
roneysco/TopX
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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