Breno de Sousa Matos

Breno de Sousa Matos

Address
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Location
E1 4 - 527
Phone
+49 681 9325 3551
Fax
+49 681 9325 5719

Personal Information

For more information about myself and latest news, see brenomatos.github.io

Publications

Research Interests

My interests lie at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Network Science, focusing on understanding and mitigating online social issues, such as misinformation and hate 
speech. 

Honours & Awards

Google Latin America Research Award - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 2023 
Awarded for my master's research on misinformation detection on videos through audio transcripts 

Invited Talks & Key Notes

Reviewing Activity & Workshop / Conference positions

Reviewer - ACM Transactions on Social Computing - 2024 

Teachings

Head Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Data Science - UFMG - Brazil - 2022 
Responsible for overseeing 80+ students’ semester projects and weekly activities for the Introduction to Data Science course at UFMG. Work included mentoring students and answering questions related to the coursework. 

Recent Positions

September 2025 - current:
PhD Student at MPI for Informatics, in the research group Internet Architecture

July 2024 - August 2025:
Data Scientist - Kunumi - Belo Horizonte, Brazil

January 2020 - July 2025:
Research Development Software Engineer (Part-time consulting) - Public Prosecutor’s Office of Minas Gerais (MPMG) at DCC/UFMG —  Belo Horizonte, Brazil 

July 2022 - October 2022:
Summer Intern - Data Science Lab (DLAB) at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

October 2020 – March 2021:
Full Stack Developer - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) at DCC/UFMG — Belo Horizonte, Brazil

 

Education

2021 - 2024:
M.Sc. in Computer Science - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Brazil

2017 - 2021:
B.Sc. in Computer Science - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil