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Name | Thales Bertaglia |
Role | Postdoctoral Researcher |
contact@thalesbertaglia.com | |
Summary | Postdoctoral researcher for the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads at Utrecht University. |
Work
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2024.01 - Present Postdoctoral Researcher
Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University
Working for the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads.
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2020.01 - 2023.12 PhD Researcher
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University
Worked at the Institute of Data Science & Studio Europa.
My research focused on developing computational methods and data resources to analyse the interaction between monetisation, regulation, content creators, and social media users. -
2019.06 - 2019.12 Applied Data Scientist Intern
Microsoft, Munich
Member of the Microsoft Search Technology Center. Worked on Intelligent Search, exploring approaches for improving search relevance for Microsoft Teams.
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2018.07 - 2019.01 Speech Scientist Intern
Amazon Research, Cambridge
Member of the Natural Language Understanding Team for Alexa. Worked on Multilingual Transfer Learning for Intent Classification and developed approaches for leveraging English data (highly available) to train models for under-resourced languages.
Education
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2020.01 - 2023.12 Maastricht, Netherlands
PhD
University of Maastricht
Thesis: Decoding Digital Influence Computational Insights into Monetisation, Controversy, and Compliance in the Creator Economy.
Supervised by Prof. Adriana Iamnitchi and Prof. Catalina Goanta -
2016.03 - 2017.08 São Carlos, Brazil
MSc
University of São Paulo
Computer Science and Computational Mathematics – Natural Language Processing Track
Thesis: User-generated Content Textual Normalization.
Supervised by Prof. Graça Nunes -
2011.02 - 2015.12 Cascavel, Brazil
BSc
Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
Computer Science
One year exchange program at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Awards and Scholarships
- 2018
Postgraduate Researcher Experience Programme Award
Awarded by the University of Sheffield
Awarded to PhD students to visit a company and gain industry experience.
- 2015
Best Computer Science Graduate of 2015
Awarded by Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
Recognised as the top Computer Science graduate with the highest GPA in the class of 2015.
- 2015
Outstanding Student in 2015
Awarded by the Brazilian Society for Computing
Selected by a committee of professors for exceptional academic trajectory.
- 2017
Doctoral Award Studentship
Granted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sheffield
Fully funded PhD scholarship and stipend.
- 2016
Master’s Degree Scholarship
Granted by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CNPq)
A scholarship providing full funding for a Master's degree.
- 2013
Science Without Borders Undergraduate Scholarship
Granted by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CNPq)
Full funding to study a year abroad at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.