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Full Name	Helder C. R. de Oliveira
Nationality	Brazilian
Languages	Portuguese (native), English, and Italian (beginner)
Contact	heldercro[AT]gmail[DOT]com

Medical imaging with a focus on machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition.

2016-2019
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
- WES Canadian equivalent: Doctorate degree.
- Thesis: "New Approaches for Automatic Detection of Architectural Distortion in Digital Mammography and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis".
- Sandwich period at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata, Italy, under supervision of professor Arianna Mencattini and funded by Erasmus Mundus program, from Dec/2016 to Jun/2017.
2014-2015
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
- WES Canadian equivalent: Master’s degree.
- Thesis: "Proposal of Radiation Dose Reduction in Digital Mammography Using New Algorithms for Poisson Noise Filtering".
2009-2013
B.S. in Computer Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil.
- WES Canadian equivalent: Bachelor's degree - four years.
- Thesis: "Desenvolvimento de um Framework para o Reconhecimento Óptico de Caracteres". (PDF) (Slides) (Source Code).

2022-ongoing
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Canada – Instructor.
- CMPS-303 Object Oriented Software Analysis and Design
- CPRG-311 Advanced Object-Oriented Programming
2019-ongoing
University of Calgary, Canada – Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Dept. of Electrical and Software Engineering.
- Biometric Technologies Laboratory.
- I do research on topics related to Bayesian networks.

Programming Languages: Python, MATLAB, R, C, C++, Java...
Libraries: Jupyter Notebook, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, StatsModels, Scikit-Learn, Scikit-Image, Seaborn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyAgrum, Semopy, PyWavelets...

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