I am a 4th year PhD student working on social media search at the Terrier Team within the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group in the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow. My supervisor is Dr. Iadh Ounis.

I hold a BSc (2005) and an MSc (2007) degrees from the Department of Computer Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

I am a member of the ACM SIGIR.

Research interests

Web information retrieval, machine learning for IR, social networks, user-generated content, systems design and development, experimental design and analysis