NEEMIASBUCÉLI
Artificial Intelligence Specialist& PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Specialist& PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Remote
GAB is one of Brazil's largest transportation and logistics conglomerates — 25+ companies across passenger, commerce, and logistics divisions. As the Artificial Intelligence Specialist at the holding company, my goal is to drive and standardize AI initiatives to work at scale.
Master Data Specialist
Curitiba, PR
Built and led the inaugural Data & AI division for a global packaging industry client — delivering forecasting models, ML-driven limits generation, automated tendency detection, and end-to-end MLOps pipelines on Vertex AI, driving significant cost reductions. Supported broader tech deployments via GKE and surfaced model insights through Streamlit and TypeScript applications. For an agricultural fintech client, technically led a data team building a production-ready multi-agent system with Google ADK and Agent Engine, with the user-facing front-end deployed on Cloud Run with SSO authentication.
Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer
Remote
Led the development of conversational agents across multiple domains. Designed an enterprise support chatbot using LangGraph and Vertex AI — orchestrated as a modular state machine for context-aware multi-turn conversations, deployed on Cloud Run, with semantic retrieval via Vertex AI vector search and integrated with Google Cloud Functions for Google Chat. Architected a voice- and text-enabled automotive AI assistant using LangChain, LangGraph, and LLMs — with modular pipelines on Azure Databricks and MLflow, RAG grounded in company knowledge, voice transcription, text-to-speech, and serverless APIs via Azure Functions.
Data Scientist
São Paulo, SP
Guided organizations including Renault Group in leveraging data science for business growth. Solved forecasting (sales and stock projections) and anomaly detection problems using supervised and unsupervised approaches. Improved material forecasting accuracy to optimize after-sales planning and stock storage. Reduced automotive warranty costs by identifying cost concentrations through anomaly detection. Delivered a full MLOps NLP pipeline to classify homologation sheet impacts using PyTorch and HuggingFace on GCP and Vertex AI.
Data Scientist
Curitiba, PR
Designed and built ML models for a speech analytics product, including Speech Emotion Recognition, Audio Classification, and Voice Activity Detection. Collaborated on exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and model deployment integrated into the call tracking platform. Worked across NLP and quantitative analytics, using Keras, TensorFlow, MLflow, Docker, BigQuery, and GCP tools.
Scientific Scholarship Holder
Campo Grande, MS
Conducted research on 'Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Plant Leaf Counting' under Dr. Wesley Nunes Goncalves — work that became a peer-reviewed publication.
UTFPR — Joint research exchange at University of Toronto
✦ Scholarship Holder · International Exchange Program
Federal University of Technology — Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, PR
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Campo Grande, MS
da Silva, Scholz, Harrison, Borges, Ávila, Santos, Delgado, Minetto & Silva
Written in Portuguese for the Brazilian academic community — a practical guide to MLLM fundamentals, key models, and hands-on implementation with LangChain and LangGraph. Designed for bachelor's and master's students and junior/mid-level professionals in AI and related fields. Supplementary code available on GitHub.
da Silva, Harrison, Minetto, Delgado, Nassu & Silva
MLLMsent: a framework leveraging MLLMs for visual sentiment analysis through direct classification, description generation, and fine-tuning. Achieves state-of-the-art results outperforming CNN and Transformer baselines.
Osco, Arruda, Marcato, da Silva et al.
CNN approach for counting and geolocating citrus trees from UAV multispectral imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 160, pp. 97–106.
da Silva & Gonçalves
CNN regression for plant leaf counting enabling automated precision crop monitoring. Workshop de Visão Computacional (WVC) 2019.
PhD Research · Artificial Intelligence
Active research at the intersection of AI and human cognition. Details will be disclosed upon publication.
Data science case studies covering regression, classification, clustering, and NLP workflows.
CNN regression for plant leaf counting — the research behind the published paper.
Core ML algorithms implemented from scratch: Regression, Clustering, and Deep Learning.
0-1 Knapsack solved with Dynamic Programming, GRASP metaheuristic, and Tabu Search.
Theory and hands-on practice of Multimodal Large Language Models with annotated notebooks.
Building a custom nano GPT-2 from scratch using PyTorch trained on the FineWeb dataset.
Synthetic Personas Distort the Structure of Human Belief Systems
Barrie & Cerina
OSF Preprint
202602The Prompt Makes the Person: A Systematic Evaluation of Sociodemographic Persona Prompting for LLMs
Lutz, Sen, Ahnert, Rogers & Strohmaier
arXiv
202503Large Language Models that Replace Human Participants Can Harmfully Misportray and Flatten Identity Groups
Wang, Morgenstern & Dickerson
Nature Machine Intelligence
202504Are LLMs Empathetic to All? Investigating Multi-Demographic Personas on a Model's Empathy
Malik, Sabri, Karnaze & ElSherief
arXiv
202505Humans and LLMs Rate Deliberation as Superior to Intuition on Complex Reasoning Tasks
De Neys & Raoelison
Communications Psychology
202506Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People
Park, Zou, Shaw, Hill et al.
arXiv
202407Not Yet: LLMs Cannot Replace Human Respondents for Psychometric Research
Wang, Zou, Yan, Guo, Sun, Xiao & Zhang
OSF Preprint
202408Can Generative AI Improve Social Science?
Bail, Christopher A.
PNAS
202409Position: Evolving AI Collectives Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation
Lai, Potter, Kim, Zhuang, Song & Evans
ICML
202410The Ethico-Political Universe of ChatGPT
Martin, John Levi
Journal of Social Computing
202311Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples
Argyle, Busby, Fulda, Gubler, Rytting & Wingate
Political Analysis
202312Using Large Language Models to Simulate Multiple Humans and Replicate Human Subject Studies
Aher, Arriaga & Kalai
ICML
2023