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  • Tales
    Scopinho

    Hi, I am a 2nd year student at the University of Toronto pursuing a:
    • Computer Science Specialist
    • Statistics Minor
    • Mathematics Minor

    CURRENT POSITIONS

    • Research Director at Google's Developer Student Club
    • Director of Marketing at UofT's Artificial Intelligence Group
    • External Relations Exec. for Project X, a north american machine learning competition.

    • Member of the Technology Leadership Initiative 2020 Cohort

Selected Projects

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  • Self Driving Car DQN
    Implemented a self driving car through a Deep Q Network Reinforcement Learning Model. Tested multiple networks includind a Convolutional Neural Network, Recurrent Neural Network and a hybrid model.

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  • Neural Network from Scratch
    Developed an Artificial Neural Network without machine learning libraries (Tensor Flow, Keras, etc) in order to fully grasp the basic fundamentals of an artificial neural network's implementation.

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  • Break & Enter Crimes in Toronto
    Work for the Toronto Police to analyze and find patterns in Break and Enter Crimes in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

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Awards

  • 2019

    Literature Review Competition First Place Award
    Sponsored by the STEM Fellowship in recognition of outstanding academic writing and abilities in science communication for the manuscript Artificial Neural Networks on Recruiting Athletes.

  • 2015

    2x Bronze Medalist (2014 & 2015): National Astronomy Olympiad
    This single phased olympiad fetured 784.390 competitors from all over Brazil. Medals were distributed based on score thresholds.

  • 2014

    Silver Medalist: National Physics Olympiad
    This Brazilian Olympiad featured 155.968 competitors from all over the country. It is divided into 3 stages in which students must have a threshold score to advance to the next phase.

Publications

  • 01

  • Artificial Neural Networks on Recruiting Athletes

    Aug 2020

    STEM Fellowship Journal

  • In this viewpoint written during my senior year of High School, I explored three implementations of artificial neural networks in sports to learn their efficacy for athlete recruitment in the professional level. https://doi.org/10.17975/sfj-2020-005

Main Interests

  • 01

    Machine Learning

  • 02

    Computer Vision

  • 03

    Software Development

  • 04

    History & Philosophy of Science

Significant Courses

  • 01

  • Intelligence, Artificial
    and Human

    2020

    University of Toronto

  • This course presents students with the opportunity to integrate their computer science interests with philosophy, history, and literature by answering questions that include: what is human intelligence? How close are we to replicating it? What ethical challenges are posed by AI on workers, society, and the environment?

  • 02

  • Computer
    Organization

    2020

    University of Toronto

  • Computer structures, machine languages, instruction execution, addressing techniques, and digital representation of data. Computer system organization, memory storage devices, and microprogramming. Block diagram circuit realizations of memory, control and arithmetic functions.

  • 03

  • LearnAI

    2020

    University of Toronto

  • Introductory machine learning curriculum for undergraduate students presented by University of Toronto's Artificial Intelligence Group.

Conferences

  • 2020

    International Conf. on Learning Representations

  • 2020

    COVID-19 & AI
    HAI Stanford

  • 2020

    StartAI
    Conference

  • On another note...

    Cool Facts

  • 01

    I have done the following courses in animation and Motion Design:
    – Motion at Melies Creative School
    – Graphix Master at N-Pix
    Check my Motion Design Portfolio

    02

    Basketball has always been a major part of my life. It earned me 2 district championships and a league MVP in 2015

    03

    I speak Portguese, English and Spanish. People say life is too short to learn German, but I tried nonetheless

    04

    I participated in the 2016 edition of FAMUN Models UN Debating Competition

  • Get in touch

  • tales.scopinho@mail.utoronto.ca • LinkedIn

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