Currently

Currently

2023 - present Visiting Fellow
King’s College, University of Cambridge

2020 - present Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo

Employment

2016-2020 Permanent Research Scientist
IBM Research Brazil

Visiting Scholar

2015 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan, Computer Science Department

Education

2018 - 2021 Ph.D. in Philosophy
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

2011 - 2015 Ph.D. in Computational Modeling
Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)

2007 - 2009 M.Sc. in Computer Science
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

2002 - 2006 B.Sc. in Computer Science
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

Recognitions & Funding

2023 Visiting Fellowship Grant, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

2016 Nominated for the “Prêmio CAPES de Teses e Dissertações”, LNCC

2014 Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (Science without Borders Program), National Research Council (CNPq)

2013 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award, IBM Research

2013 “Strict A” (Aluno Nota 10) Ph.D. Fellowship Grant, Carlos Chagas Filho Research Foundation (FAPERJ)

Books

2023 The Turing Test Argument. New York and London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003300267

Doctoral Theses

2021 Machines Will Think: Structure and Interpretation of Alan Turing’s Imitation Game. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, doi:10.11606/T.8.2021.tde-10062021-173217

2015 Managing Large-Scale Scientific Hypotheses as Uncertain and Probabilistic Data. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelagem Computacional, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica

Refereeing

Artificial Intelligence Review AI & Society IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Philosophy & Technology

Selected Refereed Publications

2024 “Lady Lovelace’s Objection: The Turing-Hartree Disputes over the Meaning of Digital Computers, 1946-1951”. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2023.3326607

2023 “Irony with a Point: Alan Turing and His Intelligent Machine Utopia”. Philosophy & Technology, doi:10.1007/s13347-023-00650-7

“Galilean Resonances: The Role of Experiment in Turing’s Construction of Machine Intelligence”. Annals of Science, doi:10.1080/00033790.2023.2234912

“The Turing Test Is a Thought Experiment”. Minds & Machines 33(1):1-31, doi:10.1007/s11023-022-09616-8

2022 “Can Machines Think? The Controversy that led to the Turing Test”. AI & Society, doi:10.1007/s00146-021-01318-6

“Para roubar o fogo dos deuses: Alan Turing (1912-1954), Prometeu moderno”, Perspectiva Filosófica 49(3): 283-305, doi:10.51359/2357-9986.2022.254744

2021 (with Fabio Cozman) “The Future of AI: Neat or Scruffy?”. In: Britto A., Valdivia Delgado K. (eds) Intelligent Systems. BRACIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13074. Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91699-2_13

2018 (with H.V. Jagadish) “Bsmooth: Learning from User Feedback to Disambiguate Query Terms in Interactive Data Retrieval”. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2018.06.003

(with Joel Carbonera e Clarisse de Souza) “O problema da explicação em Inteligência Artificial: considerações a partir da semiótica”. TECCOGS: Revista Digital de Tecnologias Cognitivas, doi:10.23925/1984-3585.2018i17p59-75

2016 “A note on the complexity of the causal ordering problem”. Artificial Intelligence, doi:10.1016/j.artint.2016.06.004

2015 (with Fabio Porto) “Managing Scientific Hypotheses as Data with Support for Predictive Analytics”. Computing in Science & Engineering, doi:10.1109/mcse.2015.102

2014 (with Fabio Porto) “γ-DB: Managing scientific hypotheses as uncertain data”. Proceedings of the Very Large Databases Endowment, doi:10.14778/2732967.2732971

2011 (with Giancarlo Guizzardi) “Using an ECG reference ontology for semantic interoperability of ECG data”. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.08.007 Volume 44, Issue 1, February 2011, Pages 126-136

Courses Taught

2021 University Lecturer/Reader, Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo
Graduate Course - “The Future of AI: from the Turing Test to Ultra-intelligent Machines”

2008 University Lecturer/Reader, Computer Science Department, Universidade do Espírito Santo
Undergraduate Course - “Introduction to Computer Science”