computational geometry · topology · applied AI
Two doctorates, Professor, fifteen years a researcher in mathematics, now leading data & bioinformatics in industry — and, on rainy afternoons, a few small apps made with my kids.
I'm a double-PhD executive with about twenty years split between advanced R&D and getting work into the world. I currently lead AI and bioinformatics for next-generation vaccine design at Ceva Santé Animale.
Before that I helped scale BCG Gamma (now BCG X) from its earliest days, and for fifteen years I was a researcher and professor of mathematics at PUC-Rio, working across computational geometry and topology, discrete Morse theory, geometry processing, reservoir modeling and computational fluid dynamics. I was elected an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
A little suite of apps about time & measure, made with my kids. They started as homework helpers and kept growing. Each ships on macOS, iOS and watchOS.
A clock that seeks out the prettiest minute nearby — 12:34, 4:04, 11:11 — and paints it the colour of the pattern it found.
A gentle calendar of reasons to celebrate — your own dates first, then the patterns, holidays and moons around them.
Open the book, tap, and read aloud — a stopwatch that paces the page and follows a child's reading speed.
Takes everyone's day — when they wake, sleep, nap and grow hungry — and finds the meal times that bring the most of the family to one table.
Pivoted the group's AI strategy toward TechBio. Leading AI & bioinformatics for next-gen vaccine design, bridging deep-learning research and experimental immunology, and developing real-world evidence with customers worldwide.
Contributed to the launch and scaling of BCG Gamma (now BCG X). Led AI projects with material ROI: $40M+ in logistics savings, doubled production at a European refinery, +15% margins for a global retailer.
80+ publications (h-index 28), 20 PhD/MSc supervised, a 15-year R&D partnership with a global energy major. Visiting positions in France, Australia, Israel and Germany.
Taught data science & business analytics; honored by students at their graduation ceremony.
Eric Cardona Romani '07 · Daniel Fleischman '07 · Matheus F. F. Maciel '07 · Carlos Simonsen Leal '07 · Bernardo Ribeiro '07 · Raffael Capano de Arruda '08 · Mariana Milazzo '08 · Lucas von Haeling Braune '09 · Victor Hugo M. Ferreira '09 · Cairo P. C. Caplan '09 · Rafael L. A. Martinez '06 · Erick C. S. Talarico '06 · Bianca de C. Lodoli '12–13 · Rafael Farias Cação '12–13 · Victor Hugo de O. da Silva '13 · Yukio Shiota Junior '13 · José Eliton Albuquerque Filho '12 · Leandro dos Reis Lopes '12 · Arthur de Paula Kolblinger '14 · Alexandre Maxinsang '14 · Maximiliano Faria '14 · Romain Faugeroux '14 · Anna-Lívia de Souza Ribeiro '14.
Happy to talk about TechBio, applied AI, doctoral programs, or anything geometric.
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