Adriana Bechara Prado

Adriana graduated from UFF, Brazil, in 1998, where she majored in Computer Science. She obtained an M.Sc. degree in Data Mining from UFF, Brazil, in 2005, and a PhD in Data Mining from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2009. She is a researcher of Dell EMC?s Brazilian R&D Center (BRDC), where she is working with the rest of the research team in the development of breakthrough solutions for relevant Big Data problems in industries such as Oil & Gas, Entertainment, and Telecommunication. Before joining Dell EMC, Adriana worked as a system analyst, for five years. After returning to the academia, she engaged in many R&D projects, in areas such as Sentiment Analysis (Universidade Federal Fluminense, UFF, Brazil), Integration of Data Mining into Database Systems (University of Antwerp, Belgium), and Graph Mining applied to Videos (Université Jean Monnet, France).

Possui graduação em Informática pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1998), mestrado em Computação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (2005) e doutorado em Informática pela Universiteit Antwerpen, Antuérpia, Bélgica (2009). Em 2010 e 2011, realizou pós-doutorado na França, em sua principal área de interesse: mineração de dados. Após seu retorno para o Brasil, trabalhou na Universidade Federal Fluminense pelo Programa Nacional de Pós Doutorado (PNPD) da CAPES, na área de Mineração de Opiniões. Atualmente, trabalha como pesquisadora no centro de pesquisa da Dell EMC.