Professional

Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Florida Polytechnic University (2025–2026): Awarded a visiting scholar position at Florida Poly to conduct a research project in the field of Engineering and Data Science. Check the Linkedin post and university's introductory post.

eLife Innovation Sprint 2020 project leader: A collaborative gathering of researchers, developers and technologists, creating prototypes to drive forward open research. Conducted online September 2–3, 2020 with the project entitled "Crawling data portals for improving research communication" in partnership with Kellyton Brito.

2020 faculty cohort for the AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador Program: AWS Educate Faculty Cloud Ambassadors are top-tier cloud educators who serve as ambassadors and evangelists for AWS Educate. As Ambassadors, they share their knowledge and experience in teaching cloud computing with other educators at their institution, in their community, and around the world. If you are an educator, be part of this amazing initiative by enrolling with this personalized link referred to me. Thanks!

Benchmarking open data automatically: A series of works to automatically access, obtain and compare data portals worldwide towards building an independent, reliable and up to date repository as a single source of open data portals operated around the world. Main outcomes:

Postdoctoral research at Department of Computer Science in Institute of Mathematics and Statistics/University of Sao Paulo: Project entitled "Development of method supported by fuzzy metrics for the evaluation of open government data repositories from automated access mechanisms and content classification". CNPq grantee from July/2017 to July/2018. Supervised by Professor Flavio Soares Correa da Silva. Main outcomes:

Academic Mobility to Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark: An Erasmus Mundus - AMIDILA Action 2 grant. Mobillity carried out in June and July 2017 and supervised by Professor Pär-Ola Zander. Main outcome:

Architecture for Open Government Data: A series of works to define and implement an API-based reference architecture for Open Government Data. Main outcome:

Github
Extended abstract "Implementação de infraestrutura de API para extração de dados tabulares a partir de documentos PDF" at 7º CONICT (ISSN 2178-9959). 2016. Students: A. P. Rozado
Poster entitled "Implementação de infraestrutura de API para extração de dados tabulares a partir de documentos PDF" at OpenCon 2016 Campinas (ISSN 2526-4826). 2016. Students: A. P. Rozado
Extended abstract and Poster entitled "Ferramenta para extração de informações de portais de transparência pública dispostas em formato não aberto" at IFSP Innovation Day Special Track of the 7th Internacional Conference on Management of computacional and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems - MEDES 2015). 2015. Students: E. H. C. Paula, P. H. P. Cardoso
Extended abstract "Métodos de extração de dados tabulares a partir de HTML e PDF" at 5º CINTEC (ISSN 2178-9959). 2014. Students: F. G. Lopes, E. H. C. Paula, F. R. Santos

Promessometro: System for monitoring election campaign promises at local level of governments using an Open Data infrastructure. Main outcome:

Openness Brazil 2014: A wide national assessment of data openness in 561 Brazilian local governments.

Nebulosus: An open fuzzy-based system to measure interoperability level of government agencies

Campus Campinas
Informatics/Computing Department

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