Hi! I’m Rafael. I’m a data scientist and machine learning engineer focused on Natural Language Processing, Search and Recommendations.
I plan, lead and execute on research, development and deployment of ML and NLP systems, as well as general devops required to run fast, secure and reliable platforms.
Since 2019 I have been at Scribd as an Applied Research Data Scientist focused on Content Modeling.
Between 2017 and early 2019 I was a Machine Learning Engineer at Ross Intelligence where I developed a Natural Language search engine for the legal domain.
My key contributions in industry are in the following domains:
- Question Answering
- Learning-to-Rank
- Information Retrieval
- Item and User Embeddings
- Recommendation Systems
- Entity Extraction and Linking
In 2017 I graduated from the University of Toronto with a MSc in Applied Computing. My focus was the application of Deep Learning methods for Question Answering in the legal domain.
Contact me at my-first-name (at) lacerda.ch