
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
- Get email via email

For more information about myself and latest news, see brenomatos.github.io
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.
Google Latin America Research Award - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 2023
Awarded for my master's research on misinformation detection on videos through audio transcripts
Reviewer - ACM Transactions on Social Computing - 2024
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.
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
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