Jhonata Emerick

BIO

Holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the São Carlos School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo (USP). Holds a Master’s in quantitative finance from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and is currently preparing to defend his Ph.D. thesis at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Poli-USP) on Machine Learning with a focus on medical imaging. Author of “Econometrics with Eviews – An Essential Guide to Concepts and Applications”. Machine Learning Professor in the Administration Institute Foundation’s MBA and graduate courses on Data Mining and Big Data. Started his career at Embraer modeling aerodynamic phenomena, then moved on to the financial market. Worked as an analyst at Rio Bravo Investments and the Ambipar Group, as well as a Data Scientist at Itaú. Developed predictive credit, anti-fraud, and insurance-focused models for Itaú. Founded an urban logistics startup called 99motos in October 2014, which went on to merge with Rapiddo in 2016 and was eventually sold to iFood in September of 2018. Co-founder of two startups focused on Machine Learning: DataRisk (risk analysis) and RadSquare (medical applications).