Eraldo R. Fernandes

Eraldo R. Fernandes is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at SoundHound since November 2022, focusing on machine learning methods for language modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding. As a Professor at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul since April 2014, Eraldo R. Fernandes has led teams on ML/NLP projects, advised students, and taught courses in AI, algorithms, and data structures. Previous experience includes a Postdoc Researcher role at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where novel deep learning methods were researched, and teaching assistant roles in AI and statistics. Eraldo R. Fernandes began an academic career at Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia de Goias, teaching algorithms and data structures. A research internship at Yahoo! Research involved developing semi-supervised algorithms for sequence labeling problems. Educational qualifications include a PhD in Computer Science from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, along with a Master's and Bachelor's degree from the same institution and Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, respectively.