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About Me

Alexandre is a Research Staff Member in the Natural Resources group at IBM Research – Brazil. He joined IBM in December 2012.

Prior that, Alexandre was adjunct professor at the Applied Mathematics School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (EMAp/FGV) and he was also lecturer at PUC-Rio. Alexandre has taught many graduate and undergraduate courses: logics, data structures, programming, formal languages and automata theory. During his Ph.D., Alexandre was international fellow at Microsoft Research and SRI International. At MSR, in 2008, he worked with the Z3 SMT Solver team under supervision of Leonardo Moura and Nikolaj Bjørner developing a distributed environment for testing and optimizations of Z3. At SRI International, in 2009, he worked under supervision of Natarajan Shankar in different research projects.

At FGV, Alexandre worked for more than 16 years. He began as an IT staff and in the last three years, after complete his Ph.D., joined the EMAp team as adjunct professor. Besides all the experience as programmer, software architect and manager, as a researcher, Alexandre participated in several research projects like: MIST (using natural language processing and description logics for Knowledge modeling), ANUBIS (database consistency check) and Ontology and Context (investigating the problem of ontology alignment).

Alexandre is the author/co-author of 28 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. His areas of expertise are logics, proof theory, knowledge representation and reasoning. He has also worked with natural language processing and Category Theory. During his PhD, he proposed new deduction systems for description logics with aims to provide support for proof explanations under supervision of Edward Hermann Haeusler. Springer published his thesis titled "A proof theory for Description Logics" in 2012 as a book of the series Springer Briefs. His currently researches are: logics for law formalization and legal reasoning, ontology alignment and instance matching, but he is also interested in theorem provers, proof theory, NLP for Portuguese, inconsistency and integrity checking of RDF datasets and ontologies.

Alexandre holds a Ph.D. (2010) in Computer Science from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and M.Sc. (2005) in Computer Science from Fluminense Federal University, and B.Sc. (2001) in Computer Science from Federal University from Rio de Janeiro.

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