Marcos Barreto

Marcos Ennes Barreto

Assistant Professor of Data Science (Education)

London School of Economics and
Political Science (LSE)

What I do:

  • Assistant Professor (Education) - Department of Statistics / LSE.
  • Teaching:
    • Undergraduate level: Databases (current).
    • Postgraduate level: Deep Learning (current), Distributed Computing for Big Data (current), Artificial Intelligence (past).
  • Research:
  • Service:
    • Department Representative in the Working Group on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
    • Strategic Lead in Knowledge Exchange and Impact (Department of Statistics).
    • ST498 (MSc Data Science Capstone Project) coordinator.
    • GTA coordinator (MSc Data Science).
    • Departmental EDI committee member.
    • Head Class Teacher - ST2195 (Programming for Data Science) module / BSc Data Science and Business Analytics / University of London.
    • Editorial Board - International Journal of Population Data Science

Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data Linkage & Analytics
  • Data Science
  • High-Performance Computing

Education

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, 2020-2021

    Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

    London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Health Data Science, 2017-2018

    Newton International Fellow (The Royal Society, UK)

    University College London (UCL)

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2010

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2000

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

  • BSc in Informatics, 1997

    Lutheran University of Brazil (ULBRA)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor (Education)

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Dec. 2020 - current London, UK
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Researcher

Institute of Health Informatics, University College London

Nov. 2016 – Nov. 2018 London, UK
Post-doctoral researcher (Newton International Fellowships - The Royal Society - UK).
Addressing heterogeneity and uncertainty in big data linkage. Prof. Spiros Denaxas (supervisor).
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Researcher

Centre of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS / FIOCRUZ Bahia)

Nov. 2016 - current Salvador, Brazil
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)

Aug. 2010 – Dec. 2020 Salvador, Brazil
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

La Salle University

Mar. 1998 – Apr. 2010 Canoas, Brazil
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Lutheran University

Mar. 1998 – Oct. 2000 Canoas, Brazil

Research

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GENIAL - GENerative AI Tools as a Catalyst for Learning

LSE Eden Centre - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning/Catalyst Fund
(2023-2024)

Alert-early system of outbreaks with pandemic potential

CIDACS/FIOCRUZ & Pandemic Prevention Institute (The Rockefeller Foundation )
(2022-2025)

AI as a service for tackling COVID-19 in Brazil

Google AI for Social Good
(2020-2021)

Design and validation of personalised risk prediction models over Brazilian health care data

The Royal Society (UK) - Newton International Fellowship Follow-on Funding
(2019-2021)

Standardisation of wearable-based algorithms for healthcare applications in developing countries

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) - Frontiers of Engineering - Seed Funding
(2018-2019)

IMAPI - Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index

Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Brazil: Data Science Approaches
(2018-2020)

The 100 million Brazilian linked data and datacentre

Wellcome Trust - Biomedical Resources Grant
(2017-2022)

Treating heterogeneity and uncertainty in data integration: case study on Brazilian databases

The Royal Society (UK) - Newton International Fellowships
(2016-2018)

Integrating socioeconomic and health data to combat malaria

Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Explorations
(2016-2019)

Design of a scientific repository (data lake) for big data applications

FAPESB - Bahia State Research Agency
(2016-2021)

BAMBU - Metropolitan network for trial and innovation on future internet

FAPESB - Bahia State Research Agency
(2015-2020)

Computational infrastructure to support big data applications in Health

UFBA - Early Doctor Research Grant
(2014-2016)

JiT-Clouds: Highly scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Brazilian Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Innovation
(2011-2013)

GT-MC2: My sCientific Cloud

Brazilian Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Innovation
(2011-2013)

GT-UniT: Monitoring the BitTorrent universe

Brazilian Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Innovation
(2010-2012)

PMM: Modular multimedia platform

Brazilian Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Innovation
(2006-2008)

DECK: Parallel programming applied to cluster computing

UFRGS - CAPES MSc Fellowship
(1998-2000)

DPC++: Distributed processing in C++

UFRGS - CNPq Research Fellowship
(1995-1998)

ArMA-GAPP: Study and application of vector architectures

UFRGS - CNPq Research Fellowship
(1993-1994)

Contact

  • m.e.barreto@lse.ac.uk
  • Department of Statistics, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE
  • Columbia House – Office 8.10