Dr Marcos Barreto is an Associate Professor of Data Science at the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (UFRGS, Brazil, 2010), followed by postdoctoral research and specialisation in Health Data Science (University College London, 2016-2018).
He is interested in big data linkage and analytical tools, machine learning applied to health and socioeconomic data, and artificial intelligence in data science education. His recent projects centred around anomaly detection for pandemic anticipation, social inequalities indexing, artificial intelligence for COVID-19 monitoring, and a series of educational projects on the use of generative artificial intelligence in data science programming education.
