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Pedro O.S. Vaz de Melo is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department (DCC) of FederalUniversity of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He has degree (2003) and Masters (2007) in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2003). He got his Ph.D. at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) with a one year period as a visiting researcher in Carnegie Mellon University and a five months period as a visiting researcher at INRIA Lyon. His research interest is mostly focused on knowledge discovery and data mining in complex and distributed systems. Pedro has published more than ninety peer reviewed papers in journals, magazines and conferences, such as ACM SIGKDD, Neurips, WWW, NAACL, ICWSM, ACM TKDD, PLOS ONE and IEEE Commag. He has also received several grants from CNPq and Fapemig, two Google Research Awards for Latin America and the 2020 CNIL-Inria Privacy Award.
olmo at dcc at ufmg dot br
pedro dot olmo at gmail dot com