Sidney Pontes-filho
Assistant Professor at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSidney Pontes-Filho is an Assistant Professor and researcher in Oslo with a decade of experience bridging academia and applied research across complex systems, unconventional computing, computational neuroscience, and artificial general intelligence. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from NTNU after master's work in Germany and began his career developing hardware-accelerated graph processing and low-cost digital systems in Brazil. Sidney has held research and postdoctoral roles at Simula and OsloMet, teaching courses on evolutionary AI, robotics, and machine learning for images and 3D data while leading the SOCRATES self-organizing computational substrates project during his PhD. He combines hands-on systems and analog design experience from early industry and lab roles with theoretical work on emergent computation, making him comfortable moving between hardware, algorithms, and biologically inspired models. Less obvious: his background includes GPU-accelerated graph processing and analog circuit automation projects, reflecting a rare blend of low-level engineering and high-level computational theory.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-LandauBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal da ParaíbaNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Portuguese, English, German, Norwegian
Github Skills (4)
c1710
c1110
disassembly10
makefile9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sidneyp/bidirectional
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
SocratesNFR/neat-nagi-python
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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