Marcelo Amancio

Work Experience

Machine Learning Specialist at Datamilk.ai | Aug 2021 – Dec 2022

  • Created a model able to rank UI/UX elements.
  • Developed a transformer-based Language Model able to learn navigation context at scale.
  • Deployed ML models into production.
  • Pioneered the development of Language Models (LMs) for e-commerce.

Head of Data Science at Talentify.io | Apr 2020 – Mar 2021

  • Responsible for the NLP pipeline on our recruitment platform.
  • Led a team of 4 engineers and 2 linguists.

Lecturer at Edevo Business School | Dec 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Speaker on the topic of AI for business.
  • Cities attended: Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

AI Developer and Consultant at Inoama Research | Oct 2017 - Nov 2019

Education

PhD - Partial Studies at University of São Paulo | Jan 2023 – Nov 2023

  • AI Methods in Computational Finance.
  • LLMs in Finance.

PhD - All but thesis at The University of Sheffield/UK & DCS | 2012 – 2016

  • Automatic Text Simplification.
  • Crowdsourced text simplifications.

MSc in Natural Language Processing at University of Sao Paulo/BR & NILC | 2009 – 2011

  • Automatic Question Generation using Machine Learning methods.
  • Automatic Question Categorization.

Bsc in Computer Science at University of Sao Paulo/BR | 2004 - 2009

  • Developed a Named Entity System for Portuguese.
  • NLP research to assist Business Plan writing.

Academic Experience & Competitions

Teaching Assistant at The Sheffield University/UK | 2014 - 2015

  • Introduction to Programming using Python.
  • Software Engineering & Projects.

Programming Competitions organized by ICPC and IOI

  • 2004 - International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
  • 2008 - ACM Int. Collegiate Programming Contest.

Awards & Honors

Santander Bank Scholarship at University of Porto FEUP - Porto/Portugal | 2007 - 2008

  • Honored with an international scholarship for outstanding academic performance.

Volunteer Experience

English Teacher Volunteer at Luar: Associação Lugar de Amor e Restauração | Sep 2019 - Feb 2020

  • Teaching English for teenagers that had no previous knowledge on the language.
  • Helped them build their initial spoken and written vocabulary.
  • Inspired them to love the English language with music.

Research Papers

  • Amancio, M.A. and Specia, L., 2014, April. An analysis of crowdsourced text simplifications. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR)@ EACL (pp. 123-130).

  • Amancio, M.A., Duran, M.S. and Aluisio, S.M., 2010. Automatic question categorization: a new approach for text elaboration. In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 46, pp.43-50.

  • Duran, M.S., Amancio, M.A. and Aluisio, S.M., 2010, May. Assigning Wh-Questions to Verbal Arguments: Annotation Tools Evaluation and Corpus Building. In International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

  • Watanabe, W.M., Candido Jr, A., Amancio, M.A., De Oliveira, M., Pardo, T.A.S., Fortes, R.P. and Aluisio, S.M., 2010. Adapting web content for low-literacy readers by using lexical elaboration and named entities labeling. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 16(3), pp.303-327.

  • Raymundo, E.M., Amancio, M.A., Aluisio, S.M., Feltrim, V., 2008. Análise da estrutura retórica da seção Sumário Executivo de Plano de Negócios. In Avanços da linguística de Corpus no Brasil, 419.