Professor at the Center for Informatics, UFPE. Works with agentic artificial intelligence and with strategy in organizations: researches AI adoption at the FAROL Institute, chaired the CESAR Board of Directors (2020–2026), is a board member of ARIES, and provides consulting to companies on AI strategy and adoption.
and also chargé de travaux dirigés for Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at Sorbonne / Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), in 2005 · Music Production, Faculdades Integradas Barros Melo (2009–10) · ProfLab, teacher training (2016–19)
alsoAlumni CIn, executive president (2022–25) · president of the SBC Special Committee on Computer Music, steering committee (2021–2023) · coordination of several national events (SBCM 2009 and 2021, National Science and Technology Week) · CITi, CIn's junior enterprise, executive president and board member (1997–2000) · FEJEPE, Federation of Junior Enterprises of Pernambuco, founder and first president
also Advisory Board member of PRAISE, a European FP7 project (2012–14), with CSIC, Sony CSL Paris, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Goldsmiths College London
The research group created in 2025 becomes, in 2026, the Instituto FAROL de Fluência Agêntica (FAROL Institute of Agentic Fluency): it measures how organizations and people work with agentic artificial intelligence, using a scale of six axes and five levels. Open instruments derive from the scale: the AI Index for companies, the Agentic Fluency Map, the AI adoption Observatory, the Agentic Fluency Map (264 items) and a set of digital tools to help people and companies use AI.
Consulting for companies and institutions on strategy and transformation through agentic artificial intelligence, in sectors such as legal, health, circular economy, third sector, public sector, engineering, software, sports, education, finance and startups.
2026
Instituto Caldeira · Innovation hub in Porto Alegre, founded in 2019 by 42 companies from Rio Grande do Sul. Technical-scientific council.
2026
Arena das IAs · A line of public experiments with students: for example, in the World Cup pool, 124 AI models predicted all 104 matches in the same ranking as people (pool · essay).
2025
FAROL, research group
Created with Filipe Calegário at CIn/UFPE to measure fluency in agentic artificial intelligence. The scale of six axes and five levels and the first instruments come out of the group.
2025
CES 2025, Las Vegas · As Chair of the Board of CESAR, presented at the CES Pepcom the Smart Lipstick, a prototype developed by CESAR with a cosmetics company, which received the People's Choice at the SXSW Innovation Awards 2025.
2007–2024
AI, creativity, and strategy
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AI, creativity, and strategy2007–2024
2023
CESAR and Generative AI · Texts authored by CESAR on generative AI and the reform of courses in light of it (June and July 2023).
2019–
Porto Digital, internationalization · Internationalization consultant for the Porto Digital Management Core since 2019, with Cais do Porto, the park's internationalization program. Participant and curator of several technology, creativity and innovation events.
2019–
Recife–Nantes cooperation
Coordinates, on the Brazilian side, the Recife–Nantes cooperation, with SAMOA, ADN Ouest and Nantes Métropole, and the economic development group of FICOL 2 (AFD, 2025–2028).
ARIES · Agência Recife para Inovação e Estratégia (Recife Agency for Innovation and Strategy): an association to think about the city over the long term. One of the five founding members; board member since 2021. The agency coordinated the Plano Recife 500 Anos, the city's strategic plan through 2037 (2nd edition, Cepe, 2022), and the Plano do Centro do Recife (2025); it carried out, in CITinova, the Filtering Gardens of Parque do Caiara, the first in Pernambuco (2023), and, with the Urban95 methodology, the Praças da Infância (Childhood Squares); since 2025 it has carried out the nature-based solutions of CAJULab, in Cajueiro, and the delegated management, in Recife, of the Recife–Nantes cooperation.
2017
Brazyle and Flow Machines
Brazilian part of the Flow Machines project, by Sony CSL, on artificial intelligence for music creation, the result of three years of cooperation with the team at Sony, Flow Records and, later, Spotify. Flow Machines produced the album Hello World, one of the first albums created with artificial intelligence in the world (2018).
CESAR, Board of Directors · Chair of the Board of Directors from 2020 to 2026 and vice-chair from 2015 to 2020. A private, non-profit innovation institute and anchor of Porto Digital, CESAR has more than 1,000 employees and CESAR School, which opened its professional doctorate in 2019. From 2015 to 2025: the Women on Board certificate for the Board (2021); the operation in Aveiro, Portugal (2023); the book O futuro das organizações pela perspectiva Design-Driven (2023), with a preface by Cabral; Florescendo Talentos (2024), with the Government of Pernambuco, SENAI and SENAC, for more than 26,000 students in about 170 state schools; the Smart Lipstick, People's Choice at the SXSW Innovation Awards 2025, an award for which CESAR had been a finalist in 2024; the magazine Horizontes Seguros and the first Socio-Environmental Impact Report (2025).
2014
PsyFun
Digital games as instruments for scientific experiments in cognitive psychology, from the Special Visiting Researcher project (CNPq), in collaboration with Boston University. Slingshot Challenge and Star Mines, tested with 162 children aged 6 to 12, proved to be valid instruments for measuring cooperation (Behavior Research Methods, 2021).
Why Is Brazilian Guitar Interesting?, invited session at ISMIR 2013 (Curitiba), the main world conference on music information retrieval, and at the 14th SBCM (Brasília). On the same circuit: ISMIR 2005 (London) and 2016 (New York), IJCAI 2015 (Buenos Aires, application demo), HCI International 2014 (Crete), FLAIRS 2006 and IEEE ISM 2008–2009.
Member of the Advisory Board of PRAISE (Practice and peRformance Analysis Inspiring Social Education), of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme: €2.3 million, coordinated by IIIA-CSIC, in Barcelona, with Sony CSL Paris, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Goldsmiths College, in London, on intelligent tutors for communities of practice.
2nd place among the six national nominees for the INFO Exame magazine award, for D'Accord and MusiGames. This is the year the studio is presented at Nokia World and the company exhibits at the BETT Show in London (2011 and 2012), after Game Connection (Lyon and Paris, 2008–2010), Macworld (San Francisco, 2010) and the agreement with Manaccom for Australia and New Zealand (2006). In the press of the period: Edge, MacMagazine, Exame, Instituto Claro and Revista Brasileiros.
Research and innovation group in Music, Technology, Interactivity and Creativity, created and coordinated with Geber Ramalho and Filipe Calegário, along five axes: digital musical instruments, sound and music analysis, automatic accompaniment, creativity support and educational systems. In 2019 it brought together 21 projects and 42 researchers, collaborated with Sony CSL Paris, McGill and Inria, and had a hub of companies that included Daccord, MusiGames and Audio Alerta. The group produced Sketchument and Illusio (2013), Batebit (2015), the toolkit with McGill and Inria (IEEE MultiMedia, 2017), the basis of the Probatio kit, and TumTá and Pisada (best paper at the 17th SBCM, 2019). The tally since 2010: 4 doctorates, 16 master's degrees, more than 30 undergraduates, 4 startups and more than 50 products. In 2021, with Moises.ai, the Chord Detection Challenge brought together 17 teams from four federal universities.
Coordination of the cooperation project for the Year of France in Brazil: UFPE × Sorbonne (Paris 6) workshop-seminar, at Porto Digital (October 28, 2009) and at IMPA, in Rio de Janeiro (October 30, 2009).
Games business unit, at Porto Digital; 28 people in May 2010. Drums Challenge (App Store, June 2009) ended the month among the five best-selling music games in the United States, and the iPad version was the best-selling music game on the device in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2010. In July 2009 Leds launched simultaneously for iPhone and for the G1, the first Android phone. Catalog on iPhone, iPad, Android, Nokia and PlayStation Minis, and custom games for Coca-Cola, Mattel and Rock in Rio.
Stanford Impact Labs and Florescendo Talentos · Lead researcher of the Preparing Brazil's Youth project (Stanford Impact Labs, 2025), with Eric Bettinger, which evaluates vocational education in Pernambuco's public high schools, linked to Florescendo Talentos, part of TrilhaTec (Government of Pernambuco, CESAR, SENAI and SENAC): 124 schools at the start, 157 in 2026.
2023–2024
Stanford Graduate School of Education · Lemann Center Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, from September 2023 to August 2024; topic: Porto Digital's Technology Residency and innovation in education. From this period, three texts with Jean-Pierre Briot on artificial intelligence in Brazil (ActuIA no. 16, 2024).
2019–
Porto Digital: Residência Tecnológica (Technology Residency) and Embarque Digital · Pedagogical coordinator of the Residência Tecnológica, which he redesigned in 2019, in cycles closed by a demo day, with student squads working on challenges proposed by companies and market mentors; in the first cohort, employability came close to 100%. On 14/09/2021 the model became public policy with Embarque Digital, created by the Recife City Hall through Decree No. 34,913, with scholarships for public-school graduates: 3,043 enrolled and 1,130 graduated through 2026; the program placed 2nd in the Enap Public Sector Innovation Contest (2023) and won the 1st Recife Innovation Award, Social Innovation category (2024). In the second half of 2025, more than 40 companies and more than 70 mentorships for about 2,300 students in Recife, for a total of 3,700 including the Aracaju and Brasília cohorts.
2016–2019
ProfLab, teacher training
Creative Training for Teachers: Game Design Thinking, Gamification in Education, and Games and Education. Cohorts in Recife and at the Armazém da Criatividade (Caruaru), at the SENAC pedagogical week (2018) and at Nauta, in Brasília (2018).
CIn/UFPE · Assistant professor, full-time exclusive dedication. Undergraduate and graduate courses in multimedia, computational creativity, games, computer music, information systems design, technology trends in media and interaction, and educational technologies; from 2020 to 2023, Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity), a pioneering course in the country, with generative AI projects; in 2026.2, Tendências em Mídia e Interação (Trends in Media and Interaction), in which the class explored 19 future themes, each with a video on the FAROL YouTube channel. In graduate studies, he also taught in the CIn Professional Master's program (2015 and 2019) and in the Graduate Program in Applied Informatics at UFRPE (2011–2012), and advised in the UFPE Graduate Program in Music (2019). Advisor of 16 doctoral theses and master's dissertations, at UFPE and UFRPE, and co-advisor of ten others; class speaker (paraninfo) for one graduating class and honored professor for six others, between 2017 and 2025.
2012
Turma do Som
Music education platform for the early school years, with 25 games and an animated series, made with Cecília Cavalieri França at Daccord, in the line of work that became Escribo in 2014, for schools without a licensed music teacher. Used in schools in Pernambuco, Minas Gerais and São Paulo; with Saiba+ Enem, it won the Northeast stage of the 2012 Finep Innovation Award, and was a finalist for the 2015 Jabuti Prize (Digital Children's Book). In 2014, the book Nós da Educação — Música (Ática).
UFRPE · Associate Professor, 2010–2014. Coordinator of the Information Systems program, deputy head of the department, and member of the Teaching, Research, and Extension Council (2012–2013); CNPq productivity fellowship in technological development. Automatic audio classification project for public security (CNPq and FACEPE, 2010–2014).
2005–2011
First teaching positions
Chargé de travaux dirigés for Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at the Sorbonne / Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), in 2005; professor of Music Hardware and Software in the Phonographic Production program at Faculdades Integradas Barros Melo (2009–2010); tutorials, short courses and instruction at regional and national events.
1997–2009
Real-time generative AI
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Real-time generative AI1997–2009
2006–2008
IMPA · Sandwich doctorate at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), in Rio de Janeiro. With Luiz Velho, of IMPA, and with François Pachet and Jean-Pierre Briot, Analytical Features to Extract Harmonic or Rhythmic Information (11th SBCM, 2007); later, doctoral examination committees in Mathematics at the institute (2009 and 2010).
2003–2008
Sorbonne Université, LIP6 · Doctorate in generative artificial intelligence at LIP6 (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, now Sorbonne Université), with Jean-Pierre Briot and François Pachet, in Briot's multi-agent systems team. Thesis Harmonisation automatique en temps réel, defended on 07/09/2008 with the mention très honorable: a system that automatically generates, in audio and in real time, the harmonization of an improvised melody (FLAIRS 2006; Ramin, 2008).
2003–2017
Sony CSL Paris · Research at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris with François Pachet, doctoral co-advisor: systems that generate real-time accompaniment and automatically discover audio descriptors (EDS, ISMIR 2005). The collaboration continued until 2017 (IJCAI 2015, Brazyle).
2000
D'Accord Music Software · Company founded from research at CIn, in Porto Digital: virtual instrument teachers, dictionaries, tuners and multimedia courses distributed, according to the company, to 116 countries. Softex National Young Entrepreneur Competition (2005), Santander Entrepreneurship Award with iChords (2006) and Finep Innovation Award (Northeast stage) in 2009 and 2012. MusiGames Studio, the line of work that became Escribo, and Audio Alerta came out of it.
1999
Agents that generate accompaniment
Bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science at UFPE, in the project on intelligent agents for complex environments: a system that receives the chord chart of a song and generates the guitar performance (2002), the basis of D'Accord's first product.
Associations · CITi, the CIn junior company: courses director, executive director and board member (1997–2000). Federação de Empresas Juniores do Estado de Pernambuco (FEJEPE), founded in 1998: founder and first president. APEB-Fr, association of Brazilian researchers and students in France: technical director (2004–2005). SBC Special Committee on Computer Music: steering committee member (2011–2014) and chair (2022–2023). Alumni CIn, association of CIn/UFPE alumni: executive director (2022–2025).
Boards, companies and strategygovernance, consulting and founded companies · 2000 → 2026
currentAI strategy and adoption consulting · business consultant. Strategy and business intelligence, with artificial intelligence as an element of business transformation; sectors: legal, health, circular economy, third sector, public sector, engineering, software, sports, education, finance and startups.
2015–2026CESAR · chair of the Board of Directors (2020–2026) and vice-chair (2015–2020). Private non-profit innovation institute, founded in 1996 in Recife: 136 projects and 95 clients per year and 4,500 students at CESAR School (cesar.org.br, 2026).
2018–ARIES, Agência Recife para Inovação e Estratégia · founding associate, one of five, and board member. Municipal social organization (Organização Social) that produced the Plano Recife 500 Anos, the city's strategic plan with a 2037 horizon, and is the delegated manager, in Recife, of FICOL 2 of the Recife–Nantes cooperation: €2.21 million through 2028 (AFD).
2026–Instituto Caldeira · technical-scientific council. Porto Alegre innovation hub, founded in 2019 by 42 companies from Rio Grande do Sul; 250 companies in the space and 512 connected in 2024 (Exame).
2024–Recife Municipal Council for Science, Technology and Innovation · alternate councilor. Collegiate body created by Law 18,974/2024 to propose and evaluate the city's innovation policies (Recife City Hall).
2019–Porto Digital · pedagogical coordinator of the Technology Residency and internationalization consultant for the Management Center. Technology park created in 2000 as a state public policy, bringing together 541 companies and 24,079 employees.
2000–Daccord Music Software · founder; partner at Daccord Tecnologia since 2018. Music software company born at CIn/UFPE; products used in 116 countries, according to the company (daccord.com.br); first place in the Finep Innovation Award, Northeast stage, in 2009 and 2012.
2007–2014MusiGames Studio · founder. Games business unit, at Porto Digital; Drums Challenge topped the iPad music games category in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2010 (MacMagazine, 04/12/2010).
2001–2017Escribo Inovação para o Aprendizado · co-founder and partner; director of technology and creation. Edtech and digital publisher: games, animation and interactive systems for education; Turma do Som, a music education platform for the early grades, was a finalist for the 2015 Jabuti Prize (Escribo).
2015 · 2019Board member training · Fundação Dom Cabral (2015) and Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (2019).
Institutions and international cooperationFrance, United States, European Union, Portugal · 2001 → 2025
2003–2008LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), Paris · PhD in generative artificial intelligence, with Jean-Pierre Briot and François Pachet; thesis defended in 2008. Computer science laboratory of Sorbonne Université and CNRS, UMR 7606 (lip6.fr).
2003–2017Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris · co-supervision by François Pachet during the PhD (2003–2007) and collaboration through Brazyle (2017). Sony's laboratory in Europe, home of the Flow Machines project (csl.sony.fr).
2007–2010IMPA, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), Rio de Janeiro · co-authorship with Luiz Velho (SBCM 2007, SIGGRAPH 2010) and doctoral committees (2009 and 2010).
2012–2014PRAISE, European project of the 7th Framework Programme · advisor (Advisory Board). Tutoring agents in communities of practice, with CSIC (coordinator, in Barcelona), Sony CSL Paris, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Goldsmiths College London: €3.37 million, €2.3 million from the European Union (CORDIS).
2023–2024Lemann Center, Stanford University · Visiting Scholar. Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Education dedicated to public education policies suited to the Brazilian reality (lemanncenter.stanford.edu).
2025Stanford Impact Labs · lead researcher on the Preparing Brazil's Youth project. Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation of vocational education in high school, in more than 130 public schools in Pernambuco (impact.stanford.edu).
2001–2008Brazil–France cooperation · Smart-es project (UFPE and Paris VI, 2001–2004), PhD and committees, with Jean-Pierre Briot, François Pachet, Vincent Corruble and Geber Ramalho.
2019–Recife–Nantes cooperation · coordinator on the Brazilian side and of the economic development group of FICOL 2. With SAMOA, ADN Ouest and Nantes Métropole; FICOL 2 (2025–2028), funded by the French Development Agency, has ARIES as delegated manager in Recife, with UFPE, Unicap, Porto Digital and CESAR as partners (Samoa Nantes).
2022–2025CESAR in Portugal · chair of the Board of Directors during the period. Memorandum with Covilhã (2022), operation in Aveiro (2023) and protocol with CCG/ZGDV in Guimarães (2025).
AdvisingPhD, master's, and undergraduate · 2010 → 2025
2doctoral theses
14master's dissertations
11doctoral and master's co-supervisions
8undergraduate final projects
10undergraduate research projects
1postdoctoral fellowship
Supervised theses and dissertations (16)
2025Mychelline Souto Cunha[a gender-sensitive approach to teaching computational thinking in primary school; co-supervised by Liliane Sheyla da Silva Fonseca, Unicap]doctorate
2022Eduardo Santos Silva[VioLED: an augmented musical instrument and software as a service to support participation and engagement in music learning]doctorate
2022Flaviano Dias Fontes[Deejai: an open music recommendation platform for groups of streaming users]master's
2022Alessandra Aleluia Alves[AMA: an expert system for adult ballet learning through automated verbal feedback]master's
2021Luiz Delando Santos Moreira Júnior[predicting podcast popularity from metadata, content, and audio features]master's
2019Daniel Ribeiro Bezerra[how high school students value music class and the factors that influence it; Graduate Program in Music, UFPE]master's
2019Michael Lopes Bastos[CatalogToMakers: collaborative cataloging of electronic components and physical computing projects]master's
2017Vivian Facundes Dantas[a MOOC platform from a connectivist perspective on learning]master's
2017Diego Leonardo Chaves Silva[gamification in a digital system for continuous class feedback]master's
2017João Nogueira Tragtenberg[digital dance and music instruments: a paradigm for the design of instruments for musical and bodily expression]master's
2017Rogério Barreto Martins[educational digital games at the Instituto Federal Baiano, Valença campus]master's
2017Paulo Roberto de Souza Mesquita Junior[peer collaborative learning supported by a social network]master's
2014Adelito Farias[human-computer interaction in educational technologies; UFRPE]master's
2013Samuel Luna Martins[digital entertainment tools for experiments on resource division; UFRPE]master's
2012Dalton Francisco de Araujo[search as a support system for improving automatic audio classifiers; UFRPE]master's
2011Gabriel Finch[LiVES, a free real-time video platform; UFRPE]master's
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