Dr Marcos Barreto

Marcos is an Associate Professor (Education) in Data Science, teaching Databases and Distributed Computing for Big Data. He also teaches a LSE's Summer School course on Machine Learning and is involved with University of London’s BSc Data Science and Business Analytics degree.

His research interests comprise big and multimodal data linkage and analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to healthcare and socioeconomic data, and generative AI tools in education. Over the last 15 years, he has been involved in international cooperation projects funded by NVIDIA, Google, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, MRC UK, HDR UK, Wellcome Trust, Royal Academy of Engineering, The British Academy, and The Royal Society.

Marcos holds a PhD in Computer Science (UFRGS, Brazil, 2010), followed by postdoctoral research and specialisation in Health Data Science (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, 2016-2018). He also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (LSE, 2021) and is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).