Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro

Dr. Carlos Pinheiro is a Distinguished Data Scientist at SAS, USA., a Visiting Professor at Data ScienceTech Institute, France, and a Lecturer at SKEMA Business School, USA. He has been working in analytics since 1996 for some of the largest telecommunications providers in Brazil, in multiple roles, from technical to executive. He worked as a Senior Data Scientist for EMC in network analytics, optimization, and text analytics projects in Brazil, and as a Lead Data Scientist for Teradata in machine learning projects in South America. Dr. Pinheiro has a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, a M.Sc. in Computing and holds a D.Sc. in Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2005). He has accomplished a series of Post-Doctoral research terms in different fields, such as in Dynamic Systems at IMPA, Brazil (2006-2007), in Social Network Analysis at Dublin City University, Ireland (2008-2009), in Transportation Systems at Université de Savoie, France (2012), in Dynamic Social Networks and Human Mobility at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2013-2014) and in Urban Mobility and Multi-modal Traffic at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil (2014-1015). He has published several papers in international journals and conferences, he is recipient of U.S. Patents, and author of Network Science: Analysis and Optimization Algorithms for Real-World Applications (forthcoming in 2022, Wiley), Introduction to Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Data Science (2021, SAS), Heuristics in Analytics: A Practical Perspective of What Influence Our Analytical World (2014, Wiley) and Social Network Analysis in Telecommunications (2011, Wiley).