Dr. Nicolau Leal Werneck

USP, São Paulo, Brazil

In development

• User:Eugene M. Izhikevich/Proposed/PROLOG programming language
• Nicolau Leal Werneck, Alain Colmerauer

Recognized contributor

• Nelder-Mead algorithm
• (2009) Saša Singer, John Nelder

• MATLAB
• (2007) Rob Schreiber

• Word sense disambiguation
• (2008) Philip Edmonds, Eneko Agirre

• Spike train and point processes
• (2010) Jose Pedro Segundo

• Cascade and scaling
• (2008) Gregory Falkovich

I graduated in Electrical Engineering at UFMG and later got a masters degree at UNICAMP. In 2012 I finished my doctorate at USP, in the area of Computer Vision.

Interests

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, {Probability,Information,Computation} theory, Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Philosophy.

Skills

Human Languages

• Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese...) (native)
• English (very good)
• French, Spanish (weak)
• Japanese (very weak)

Computer Languages

Mostly C and Python, but never afraid of trying new things.