Hi there! I am a Computer Scientist with interests in distributed computing, software development and data. I have done work on distributed debugging, parallel simulators, fault-tolerant and large-scale computing, but as of late have shifted my focus to projects that allow me to develop knowledge in statistics and machine learning.
I enjoy studying stuff, and find motivation in gaining deeper insight on things. For this reason, I am a slow learner.
I started this website mainly as a way to publish my R Notebooks in a controlled fashion. I may end up turning it into a real personal website as time passes. :-)
PhD in Distributed Systems, 2013
University of Trento
MSc in Distributed Systems, 2008
University of São Paulo
BSc in Computer Science, 2003
University of São Paulo
I have been doing some Ruby programming as part of my recent work ventures, and I think a nice way to learn a new language is trying to understand how to map your previous way of doing things into this new environment, and discovering new things along the way. Having been programming in Python for the best part of the last 4 years, I got used to as a convenient way of structuring certain computations.