About Me

Hey! I’m Aécio.

Professional Experience

I am a Research Engineer at New York University (NYU) in New York City. At NYU, I've been working on multiple research and development projects (including DARPA's Memex and D3M programs) which require a good combination of knowledge and skills in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval (Web Search). Previously, I worked as a Software Engineer for a Brazilian start-up called Zunnit Technologies, where we built a scalable news recommendation platform used by the major Brazilian media companies.

Education

In 2024, I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University's Tandon School of Engineering under supervision of Prof. Juliana Freire. Previously, I received a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and a Technology Degree in Analysis and Development of Systems from Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI).

Research Experience

I've had the opportunity to work in several research projects which resulted in various publications in top-tier research venues, which include VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, PODS, The Web Conference (WWW), SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, SPIRE, and Information Retrieval Journal. I'm interested in solving complex problems (which usually involve dealing with large amounts of data) that lie in the intersection of research areas such as Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Data Management, and Information Visualization.