Dr Marcos Barreto

Marcos is an Associated Professor (Education) in Data Science, teaching Databases and Distributed Computing for Big Data, and coordinating capstone projects in the MSc in Data Science programme. 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. He is affiliated with the LSE Data Science Institute, involved with teaching and research initiatives related to data science and generative AI in education across LSE. He is also an Associate Researcher at CIDACS (Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health), in Salvador, Brazil, where he contributes to bespoke data linkage tools supporting the design of massive population-based cohorts. Over the last 13 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.

Before joining LSE, Marcos worked for 10 years as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), preceded by another 12 years as Assistant Professor in private universities in south Brazil. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (2010, UFRGS, Brazil) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Data Science (2018, UCL, London), where he also worked as a Newton International Postdoctoral Researcher (2016-2018, The Royal Society, UK). He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2020.