I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo. For the most part, my research has focused on the computational aspects of discrete probabilistic graphical models (e.g., Bayesian networks, credal networks, sum-product networks) and their use in classification, robust inference and planning under uncertainty. More recently, I became very enthusiastic about probabilistic logic programming and its connection to deep learning. My group is currently building a neuro-symbolic reasoner supported by such techniques.
I am an Area Editor of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, and Senior Associate Editor of the new ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning Journal. I serve regularly in the Program Committee of top AI conferences (AAAI, IJCAI, etc). Between 2020 and 2023 I was part of the editorial board of the Artificial Intelligence Journal.
PhD in Informatics, 2013
University of Lugano
MEng in Mechatronics, 2009
University of São Paulo
Electrical Engineering, 2007
University of São Paulo