About Me

Hey! 👋🏽 I’m Aécio (pronounced as in: ah-eh-see-oh).

Professional Experience

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Database Architectures group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. Previously, I was a Research Engineer at New York University (NYU) in New York City, where I worked on multiple research and development programs, including DARPA’s Memex, D3M, ASKEM and ARPAH-H's Biomedical Data Fabric Toolbox. Before that, I worked as a Software Engineer at a Brazilian start-up called Zunnit Technologies, where we built a scalable news recommendation platform used by major Brazilian media companies.

Education

I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University's Tandon School of Engineering, advised by Prof. Juliana Freire. Throughout my Ph.D., I've been fortunate to have been mentored by Chris Musco and Flip Korn. 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.