Working as a Data Scientist at Americanas s.a. I'm always looking to grow my personal and professional network. Feel free to connect via LinkedIn or contact me directly at ggnicolau@usp.br.

I've 8 years of experience as a science researcher at the university. I have a PhD degree and master degree in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral internship at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). I studied at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra (FEUC) on Erasmus Mundus program. Currently I'm enrolled in a MBA in Artificial Intelligence at ICMC-USP (a reference center for computational science in Latin America). Member of C4AI - a partnership between USP, FAPESP and IBM. I was Student Representative of the Political Science Department at USP and also Student Representative at FFLCH-USP.

I'm italo-brazilian (dual nationality) current living in Brazil and with a family background part of the history of Brazil and São Paulo. Working in between Academic Career and Private Sector, with science and technology. Working with machine learning engineering, using Python, R, Julia, PostgreSQL, Atom, Jupyter and Cloud services. I'm trained at ETL, data cleaning, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, Data Mining, Web Scraping, Data Visualization, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Google Cloud (GCP).

As a major area of research in political science I studied the progressive securitization of social life since the end of the USSR, more specifically since the 1994 UNDP. In my master's degree I studied the relations between European Union international security for the Mediterranean along with policies for immigrants and refugees. In my PhD I studied the relationship between public security and social assistance in the city of São Paulo, more specifically for the homeless people. I've studied the Municipal Funds and the outsourcing of public services to religious organizations. I studied urbanism in São Paulo focusing on participatory councils. Now I'm studying new security technologies incorporated in São Paulo's public administration.

Field of knowledge: political ethnography, computational linguistics, statistics, data science, public documentation (speeches, shorthand notes, minutes, security councils, participatory councils, institutional news, public budgets), contemporary social movements, political theory, discourse theory, public security, international security, european studies, transnational immigration, human development; state and society; political economy.