Heitor R. Guimarães
heitor.guimaraes at inrs dot ca
Ph.D. candidate & Senior Data Scientist
Montreal, QC, Canada
I’m a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in Telecommunications at INRS under the supervision of Prof. Tiago Falk. My research interest lies in efficient deep learning (e.g., Model compression and Efficient architectures), representation learning, and self-supervised learning for speech and language processing (SLP). In addition, I aim to build efficient speech representation learning algorithms robust to distribution shifts and malicious users.
Previously, I worked as a senior data scientist at Itaú-Unibanco, where I was responsible for developing a wide range of ML solutions to handle tabular data, speech, and NLP, from conception to large-scale deployment, impacting more than 20 million users. In the past, I also had some internship experiences with investment funds and in the O&G fields. On the academic side, I have received my M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at USP, a Specialization in Data Science at ITA, and my B.S. in Computer and Information Engineering from UFRJ.
For more details, please take a look at my CV (last update: 2024/09/22).
Apart from my professional interests, I like to practice Wushu (lineage: Wu Ji Tang Lang Men), and I enjoy the Beat Generation literary movement, mainly the works of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady.
news
Sep 16, 2024 | Joining Meta (Reality Labs) Audio Team as a Research Intern (Fall 2024) |
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Jun 10, 2024 | Joining Adobe Speech AI Team as a Research Intern (Summer 2024) |
Mar 28, 2024 | PhD Milestone: I have passed my Doctoral Exam! |
Nov 8, 2023 | Our paper “Adapting Self-Supervised Features for Background Speech Detection in Beehive Audio Recordings” received the Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher Award at IEEE MetroAgriFor |
Nov 3, 2023 | Received the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Scholarship! |