Thiago De Sousa Silveira
Data Scientist
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolThiago De Sousa Silveira is a Data Scientist with 10 years' experience specializing in NLP, transformers, language models and recommender systems, currently leading NLP research and applied ML at UNICEPTA in Beijing. He has delivered production-ready solutions—RAG frameworks, prompt chains and tree-of-thoughts summarizers—that cut editorial costs and improved relation extraction recall by ~20%, while boosting aspect-based sentiment F1 from 70% to 90%. His background spans big-data engineering (MapReduce, Hadoop) and deep-learning research, with academic roots from Tsinghua and a published record on recommendation unexpectedness and social-media sentiment methods. Comfortable managing interns and cross-disciplinary teams, Thiago combines hands-on PyTorch model fine-tuning with pragmatic data-labeling strategies like Snorkel to accelerate annotation. He brings a rare blend of research rigor and production focus, able to move novel NLP techniques from papers into measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor's degree, Ciência da Computação, Bachelor's degree, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal de Sao Joao del-ReiTécnico em Programacão Comercial, Programação de Computadores - Aplicativos Específicos, Técnico em Programacão Comercial, Programação de Computadores - Aplicativos Específicos at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas GeraisMaster of Advanced Computing, Computer Science, Master of Advanced Computing, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Portuguese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (88)
python9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
data-science9
tensorflow9
jax8
classifier8
neural-network7
java7
factorization7
sparse7
embedding6
quantile6
lime6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ThiagoSousa/ProjectEuler
Jan 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
ThiagoSousa/BERT-Multiclass
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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