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Data science, Big data, Health informatics, High-performance computing, Artificial intelligence
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Biography

PhD in Computer Science (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 2010). Post-doctoral research (Newton International Fellow, The Royal Society) on Health Data Science at the Institute of Health Informatics (University College London, UK, 2016-2018). PG Certificate in Data Science for Research on Health and Biomedicine (University College London, UK, 2017-2018). Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Data Science at the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2010 to 2020, I was an associate professor at UFBA (Federal University of Bahia). My research interests comprise big data linkage and analytics, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing applied to healthcare and socioeconomic data. More information at https://marcosebarreto.github.io/

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Employment (3)

London School of Economics: London, GB

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London School of Economics & Political Science

London School of Economics and Political Science: London, Greater London, GB

2020-12-15 to present | Assistant Professor of Data Science (Education) (Statistics)
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Federal University of Bahia (UFBA): Salvador, BA, BR

2010-08-02 to 2021-02-03 | Associate professor (Computer Science)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University College London: London, London, GB

2017-09-02 to 2018-11-01 | Postgraduate Certificate with Merit in Data Science for Research in Health and Biomedicine (Institute of Health Informatics)
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University College London: London, London, GB

2016-10-09 to 2018-10-09 | Post-doctoral (Newton International Fellow - The Royal Society) (Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research)
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: Porto Alegre, RS, BR

2006-04-02 to 2010-05-04 | PhD in Computer Science (Informatics Institute)
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Funding (1)

Integrating socioeconomic and health data to combat malaria

2016-11 to 2018-04 | Grant
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (WA, WA, US)
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Exploring machine learning algorithms in sickle cell disease patient data

PLOS ONE
2024-11-11 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Tiago Fernandes Machado; Francisco das Chagas Barros Neto; Marilda de Souza Gonçalves; Cynara Gomes Barbosa; Marcos E. Barreto
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London School of Economics & Political Science

Approach Generative AI Tools Proactively or Risk Bypassing the Learning Process in Higher Education

LSE Public Policy Review
2024-11-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Dorottya Sallai; Jonathan Cardoso-Silva; Marcos Barreto; Francesca Panero; Ghita Berrada; Sara Luxmoore
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To improve their courses, educators should respond to how students actually use AI

2024-05-22 | Interactive resource | Author
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Contributors: Dorottya Sallai; Jonathan Cardoso-Silva; Marcos E. Barreto
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London School of Economics & Political Science

Data challenges for international health emergencies

The Lancet Digital Health
2024-05-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Sally Boylan; Catherine Arsenault; Marcos E. Barreto; Fernando A Bozza; Adalton Fonseca; Eoghan Forde; Lauren Hookham; Georgina S Humphreys; Maria Yury Ichihara; Kirsty Le doare et al.
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London School of Economics & Political Science

K-means DTW Barycenter Averaging

International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
2024-04-14 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Jonatas Silva do Espirito Santo; Jackson Santos da Conceição; Lilia Carolina Carneiro da Costa; Rosemeire Leovigildo Fiaccone; Marcos E. Barreto; Maria Yury Ichihara; Anderson Ara
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A fundamental problem at the heart of data science teaching

2023-06-13 | Interactive resource | Author
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Main and moderated effects of multimorbidity and depressive symptoms on cognition

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
2022 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1809452X 15164446
Contributors: de Araujo, J.A.P.; Xavier, É.F.M.; Rodrigues, E.S.; Machado, D.B.; Barreto, M.E.; Kanaan, R.A.; Barreto, M.L.; Castro-De-araujo, L.F.S.
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Malaria-VisAnalytics: a tool for visual exploratory analysis of Brazilian public malaria data

ResearchSquare
2022 | Other
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Contributors: Sironi, A.P.; Bertoldo, J.; Sampaio, V.; Coimbra, D.; Rasella, D.; Barreto, M.E.
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Malaria-VisAnalytics: a tool for visual exploratory analysis of Brazilian public malaria data

Malaria Journal
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85135242396

Part of ISSN: 14752875
Contributors: Sironi, A.P.; Bertoldo, J.; Sampaio, V.; Coimbra, D.; Rasella, D.; Barreto, M.E.
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Prioritizing nurturing care at the municipal and district level with the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index (IMAPI)

Maternal and Child Nutrition
2022 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 17408709 17408695
Contributors: Buccini, G.; Pimentel, J.L.; Pedroso, J.; Coelho Kubo, S.E.D.A.; Bertoldo, J.; Sironi, A.; Barreto, M.E.; Pérez-Escamilla, R.; Gubert, M.B.
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Malaria-VisAnalytics: A Tool for Visual Exploratory Analysis of Brazilian Public Malaria Data

ResearchSquare
2021 | Other
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Contributors: Sironi, A.P.; Bertoldo, J.; Barreto, M.E.; Simpaio, V.; Coimbra, D.
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Cohort profile: The 100 Million Brazilian Cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology
2021-12-18 | Journal article
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Birthweight, gestational age and familial confounding in sex differences in infant mortality: a matched co-twin control study of Brazilian male-female twin pairs identified by population data linkage

International Journal of Epidemiology
2021-11-29 | Journal article
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Gamification Frameworks and Models for Health Contexts

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research
2021-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Murilo Guerreiro Arouca; Isa Beatriz da Cruz Neves; Marcos Ennes Barreto; Carlos Daniel Santana Cruz; Ricardo Lustosa Brito
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Sociodemographic inequities in nurturing care for early childhood development across Brazilian municipalities

Maternal & Child Nutrition
2021-07-06 | Journal article
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Nurturing care indicators for the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Municipal Index (IMAPI)

Maternal & Child Nutrition
2021-05-04 | Journal article
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BioMeT and Algorithm Challenges: A Proposed Digital Standardized Evaluation Framework

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
2020 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2168-2372
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Inteligência artificial e COVID-19

Construção de conhecimento no curso da pandemia de COVID-19 : aspectos biomédicos, clínico-assistenciais, epidemiológicos e sociais
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9786556300757
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CIDACS-RL: a novel indexing search and scoring-based record linkage system for huge datasets with high accuracy and scalability

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
2020-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1472-6947
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Sex Differences in Infant Mortality: A Population Data Linkage Study of Brazilian Male-Female Twin Pairs

International Journal of Population Data Science
2020-12-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2399-4908
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Convolutional Support Vector Models: Prediction of Coronavirus Disease Using Chest X-rays

Information
2020-11-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Mateus Maia; Jonatha S. Pimentel; Ivalbert S. Pereira; João Gondim; Marcos E. Barreto; Anderson Ara
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Local Processing of Massive Databases with R: A National Analysis of a Brazilian Social Programme

Stats
2020-10-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Hellen Paz; Mateus Maia; Fernando Moraes; Ricardo Lustosa; Lilia Costa; Samuel Macêdo; Marcos E. Barreto; Anderson Ara
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Matched-Pair Analysis Using Machine Learning to Predict 1-year Mortality in Newborn Twins

Anais Principais do Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Aplicada à Saúde (SBCAS 2020)
2020-09-15 | Conference paper
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Wearables beyond borders: A case study of barriers to gait assessment in low-resource settings

Maturitas
2020-07 | Journal article
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Ontological concepts for information sharing in cloud robotics

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
2020-06-10 | Journal article
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Abstracts

Maternal & Child Nutrition
2020-02 | Journal article
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A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy

The Knowledge Engineering Review
2019 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1469-8005
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Providing Malaria Analytics as a Service

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
2019 | Conference paper
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The Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS)

International Journal of Population Data Science
2019-11-20 | Journal article
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K-Fact: Using the Frequency Factor for Clustering Categorical Data

2019 8th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)
2019-10 | Conference paper
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Prototyping and Validating the CORA Ontology: Case Study on a Simulated Reconnaissance Mission

2019 Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2019 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR) and 2019 Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE)
2019-10 | Conference paper
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Administrative Data Linkage in Brazil: Potentials for Health Technology Assessment

Frontiers in Pharmacology
2019-09-23 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1663-9812
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Exploring hybrid parallel systems for probabilistic record linkage

The Journal of Supercomputing
2019-03 | Journal article
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Applying term frequency-based indexing to improve scalability and accuracy of probabilistic data linkage

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
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Part of ISSN: 16130073
Contributors: Pita, R.; Menezes, L.; Barreto, M.E.
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Linking surveillance and climate data to combat malaria

International Journal of Population Data Science
2018-09-11 | Journal article
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On the Accuracy and Scalability of Probabilistic Data Linkage Over the Brazilian 114 Million Cohort

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
2018-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Robespierre Pita; Clícia Pinto; Samila Sena; Rosemeire Fiaccone; Leila Amorim; Sandra Reis; Mauricio L. Barreto; Spiros Denaxas; Marcos Ennes Barreto
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A Machine Learning Trainable Model to Assess the Accuracy of Probabilistic Record Linkage

Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery
2017 | Book chapter
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Accelerating Docking Simulation Using Multicore and GPU Systems

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017
2017 | Book chapter
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uStorage - A Storage Architecture to Provide Block-Level Storage Through Object-Based Storage

Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
2017 | Book chapter
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Ontology for autonomous robotics

2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
2017-08 | Conference paper
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Probabilistic Integration of Large Brazilian Socioeconomic and Clinical Databases

2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
2017-06 | Conference paper
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Towards a Robot Task Ontology Standard

Volume 3: Manufacturing Equipment and Systems
2017-06-04 | Conference paper
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Treating heterogeneity and uncertainty in data integration: study on Brazilian healthcare databases.

International Journal of Population Data Science
2017-04-19 | Journal article
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Assessing the accuracy of probabilistic record linkage of social and health databases in the 100 million Brazilian cohort

International Journal of Population Data Science
2017-04-18 | Journal article
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Design and evaluation of probabilistic record linkage methods supporting the Brazilian 100-million cohort initiative.

International Journal of Population Data Science
2017-04-18 | Journal article
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Auto-tuning TRSM with an asynchronous task assignment model on multicore, multi-GPU and coprocessor systems

Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA
2016 | Conference paper
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Contributors: Pinto, C.; Barreto, M.; Boratto, M.
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A Spark-based workflow for probabilistic record linkage of healthcare data

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2015 | Conference paper
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Part of ISSN: 16130073
Contributors: Pita, R.; Pinto, C.; Melo, P.; Silva, M.; Barreto, M.; Rasella, D.
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Automatic routine tuning to represent landform attributes on multicore and multi-GPU systems

The Journal of Supercomputing
2014-11 | Journal article
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Support for bioinformatics applications through volunteer and scalable computing frameworks

2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)
2014-09 | Conference paper
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Auto-tuning methodology to represent landform attributes on multicore and multi-GPU systems

Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores - PMAM '13
2013 | Conference paper
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