Researcher in Health Data Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), working on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on predictive modelling for stillbirths and neonatal deaths across Sub-Saharan Africa. Visiting Researcher at PROADI-SUS, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (São Paulo). Former Technical Consultant (Epidemiologist & Data Scientist) at PAHO/WHO.
Education: PhD in Public Health – Epidemiology (USP) · MPH (UFBA) · MBA in Data Science & Analytics (USP-Esalq) · MBA in AI & Big Data (ICMC-USP) · BSc Nutrition (Lúrio University)
| Project | Description | Stack | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔬 | Stillbirths & Neonatal Deaths – SSA | Multi-country predictive models using DHS across Sub-Saharan Africa | Deep Learning DHS |
| 🌍 | Federated Learning – 16 African Countries | Privacy-preserving FL with FedProx + DP-SGD on DHS data | FedProx DP-SGD Flower |
| 🇧🇷 | Federated Learning – Brazil | pFedMe + Flower across 5 Brazilian macroregions | pFedMe Flower |
| 🔄 | Transfer Learning – Africa to Brazil | Cross-continent deep learning fine-tuning | Transfer Learning Fine-tuning |
| 📊 | XGBoost Neonatal Mortality | Avoidable neonatal mortality with explainability | XGBoost SHAP TRIPOD-AI |
| Project | Description | Stack | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🗺️ | Municipal Perinatal Clustering | Clustering municipalities by perinatal indicators (2012–2023) | k-means Markov RF |
| 📉 | Maternal Mortality Brazil 2000–2024 | Interrupted time-series of maternal mortality trends | ITS Joinpoint |
| 🦟 | Syphilis Trends – Brazil | Temporal trends and spatial patterns of congenital syphilis | Spatial Joinpoint |
| 📋 | Systematic Review – Neonatal ML | SR of ML models for neonatal death & stillbirth prediction | Meta-analysis R |
| 🏥 | Fetal Weight Estimation with ML | ML models for fetal weight prediction | ML Regression |
| Institution | Role |
|---|---|
| London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) | Researcher in Health Data Science |
| PROADI-SUS, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein | Visiting Researcher |
| MARCH Centre, LSHTM | Research Group Member |
| LABDAPS, University of São Paulo | Research Group Member |
| Rede CoVida, Brazil | Research Group Member |
| UFMS – Epi & Applied Mathematics Group | Research Group Member |
