- 🎓 PhD in Political Science (IESP-UERJ)
- 🧠 Research focus: political behavior, authoritarian regimes, religion & politics, public safety, and AI for social sciences
- 🔭 Thesis on party opposition under Russian autocracy
- 👨🏻🏫 Professor of Data Science and AI at FGV Comunicação and FGV Direito Rio
- 👨🏻🔬 Data Scientist and Researcher at:
- ISER (Religion & Politics)
- GENI/UFF (Public Safety & Violence Data)
- 🏢 Consultant on MACAPE Pesquisas e Consultoria em Tecnologia
- Professor of Data Science @ FGV ECMI
- Data Scientist and Researcher @ ISER
- Data Scientist @ GENI/UFF
- Consultant @ MACAPE
- 📊 Political Data Science & Computational Social Science
- 🗳️ Legislative behavior, opposition, and authoritarian politics
- ✝️ Religion & Politics
- 🚔 Public Safety and Violence Data
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Knowledge Graphs
- 🧩 Sociotechnical systems and AI regulation
- RAG systems with Knowledge Graphs (Neo4j + LLMs)
- Dashboards and ETL pipelines for public policy and social research
- Topic models, clustering and narrative monitoring
- Educational tools for AI & Data Science
- Open-source research utilities (scrapers, analyzers, NLP pipelines)
- 👨💻 All of my projects: github.com/mateuspestana
- 📝 Articles: https://religiaoepoder.org.br
- 📧 matheus.pestana@fgv.br
- 📄 CV: cv_ptbr.pdf
Main stack:
Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Pandas, Seaborn, SQL, Neo4j, Docker, Git, Linux
Data & Infra:
AWS, GCP, Spark, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, Nginx
Web & Apps:
Flask, Django, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Qt
Other:
OpenCV, Selenium, Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bash
