My Curriculum Vitae is provided below in Markdown.

Personal Information

  • Name: Paulo Ricardo Branco da Silva
  • Civil Status: Single
  • Date of Birth: 02/09/1987
  • Residential Address: Rua Alba Dias Cunha, 100, apto. 31
  • City: Santo André, Brazil
  • Mobile: +55 11 95585-5725

Professional Experience

  • University Vector Calculus Professor at Uniasselvi
    • From September 2017 to March 2019
    • Double and triple integrals, gradient, divergence, curl, Stokes’ Theorem
  • Lab Assistant at Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia
    • From January 2012 to December 2012
    • Kalman filters
    • Testing of the LEON 3 softprocessor implemented on a Xylinx FPGA
    • Tests with low-energy networks, including ZigBee
  • Internship as Telecommunications Engineer at Invensys
    • From February 2011 to January 2012
    • Implementation of a SCADA-based control system
    • Relay of sensitive data via web queries and GPRS signals
  • Internship as PLC Engineer at Siemens
    • From January 2011 to March 2011
    • Sales of Programmable Logic Controller units and technical assistance

Education

  • Ph.D. in Information Theory at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
    • From March 2016 to September 2020
    • Research internship in Imperial College London
    • Design of lattices
  • Master’s in Information Theory at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
    • From March 2013 to November 2015
    • LDPC Codes applied to cooperative networks using the Compute & Forward communication scheme
    • Use of multilevel coding for spectral efficiency
  • Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering majoring in Electronics at Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia (IMT)
    • From February 2007 to January 2012

Skills

  • Programming: C, Python, Java, R, MATLAB
  • Webpage Development
  • Probability and statistics
  • Optimization
    • Convex
    • Linear Programming
    • Genetic Algorithms
  • Machine learning
  • Data science
    • SciKit Learn
    • pyTorch
    • Keras
    • Pandas
    • Graphing Tools: Matplotlib, Seaborn
  • Databases
    • MySQL

Academic Articles Published

Events

Languages

Language Proficiency
Portuguese Native
Spanish C2
French C2 (conferred TCF Tout Public)
Italian A2
English C2 (TOEFL iBT - Score: 117)
German C2 (conferred by TestDaF)
Russian A1

A PDF copy of my curriculum is available here.

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