in front of the Leonardo campus of Politecnico, proudly holding up a Brazilian flag
My name is Tomaz (pronounced tou-MAS), and I’m a master’s student in Computer Science and Engineering taking the Artificial Intelligence specialisation at Politecnico di Milano. Previously, I was a bachelor’s student in Computer Engineering at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (Poli-USP). I was born in and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, before moving to study in Milan, Italy, where I’m currently based.
I was a research assistant for 1 year at Poli-USP, working with neural network models for time series prediction and classification along a group with which I published two conference papers. I also have 1 year of full-time work experience in data analytics and data engineering. Check out my LinkedIn or my CV if you’d like to know more.
I’m deeply interested in all aspects of computing, but especially on how we can make AI systems more efficient, explainable and available in a way that benefits the most people possible. I’m always trying to approach things with curiosity in mind, trying to challenge assumptions about how things are done so we can do them even better. Some might also say I’m a bit of an idealist, but I find it hard not to uphold the strong values I live by: curiosity, independence, transparency, honesty, to name a few.
In my spare time, I’m usually playing around with computers (as any good computer nerd would). I also enjoy travelling, and meeting new people and cultures along the way; photography (though I’m no more than just the next guy with a DSLR); and listening to music from a bunch of my favourite artists (diehard fan of Sara Bareilles here!).
About this site
I’m still not sure what I’ll make of this just yet. It’ll be where I write up about the behind the scenes of my projects and research as they come up, as well as post about any interesting thing I decide to do or come across.
For now, the main improvement I’d like to make is set up some page where I can share my pictures and explain a bit of the story behind them as well. I also want to play a bit around with Hugo taxonomies so I can get series of posts rolling.