Students
I am always keen to supervise highly motivated students in the broad area of information retrieval. Feel free to contact me about current opportunities and to discuss topics of mutual interest.
Current students
PhD students
- Bruno Laporais Pereira
- Leandro Augusto Lacerda Campos
- Rafael Glater da Cruz Machado
MSc students
- Arthur Pontes Nader
- Elves Mateus Rodrigues
- João Victor da Silva Dias Canavarro
- João Vítor Fernandes Dias
- Regis Nogueira Fontes
Former students
PhD students
- Ramon Pereira Lopes (PhD, 2017 — 1st advisor: Renato Assunção)
Similarity-enhanced collaborative filtering
MSc students
- Breno de Sousa Matos (MSc, 2024)
Towards misinformation span detection - Rennan Cordeiro Lima (MSc, 2023)
Extractive summarization of publication profiles for expert search in academia - Pedro Dalla Vecchia Chaves (MSc, 2021)
Efficient exploration and exploitation for sequential music recommendation - Filipe Barreto do Nascimento (MSc, 2021)
On the impact of sample reduction strategies for heterogeneous network representation learning - Karen Stéfany Martins (MSc, 2020 — 1st advisor: Pedro Vaz de Melo)
On the impact of attribute noise on movie review polarity classification - Arthur Barbosa Câmara (MSc, 2018)
Navigating semantically annotated queries for task understanding - Gustavo Penha (MSc, 2018)
Performance prediction for enhancing ensemble learning - Lucas Chaves Lima (MSc, 2018)
Utility models for complex search tasks - Bruno Laporais Pereira (MSc, 2017)
Online music recommendation from implicit feedback - Felipe Moraes Gomes (MSc, 2017)
On effective dynamic search systems - Jordan Silva (MSc, 2017)
On location-based pruning for point-of-interest recommendation - Luiz Raul Sanchez Vazquez (MSc, 2017)
Repurchase intention for lodging recommendation - Rafael Glater da Cruz Machado (MSc, 2017)
Intent-aware semantic query annotation - Vitor Mangaravite (MSc, 2016)
Non-boolean authorship models for expert search in academia - Isac Sandin Ribeiro (MSc, 2015 — 1st advisor: Alberto Laender)
Content-based tag recommendation for expertise profiling - Geraldo Ribeiro Franciscani Jr. (MSc, 2014 — 1st advisor: Raquel Minardi)
An annotation process for data visualization techniques - Thales Filizola Costa (MSc, 2014 — 1st advisor: Nivio Ziviani)
Taxonomy-driven content-based recommendation for new items - Lucas Cunha Miranda (MSc, 2013 — 1st advisor: Alberto Laender)
Characterizing video access patterns in mainstream media portals