Sherlon Da Silva
Machine Learning Engineer at Epic Games
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolSherlon Da Silva is a Machine Learning Engineer and PhD candidate at USP with nine years of experience applying deep learning to computer vision and 3D scene understanding. He was a visiting researcher at NYU Courant in 2024 working on stereo vision and now contributes ML expertise at Epic Games, blending academic rigor with production-focused engineering. His background spans visual analytics, NLP, HCI and recommendation systems from his master’s work, and he has hands-on experience building skin color classification systems and performance-optimized numerical code in C/C++ with OpenMP and CUDA. Comfortable in Python and C, he also codes across web and scripting stacks and has taught multiple university courses, demonstrating strong communication and mentoring skills. A Laureate Academic Award recipient, Sherlon pairs research-driven problem solving with practical system implementation and a creative side—he’s a musician and gamer who brings curiosity and user-centered thinking to technical challenges.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Visiting Researcher (Exchange Program), Visiting Researcher (Exchange Program) at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Pampa
English, PortugueseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SherlonAlmeida/Fingerprint_Recognition
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
SherlonAlmeida/Repositorio
Aug 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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