Graduated in Information Systems from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in 2018, holds a Master's degree
in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, obtained in 2022.
Currently, a Ph.D. student, conducting a research funded by the AON Foundation focused on assessing the economic losses
caused by natural disasters on resilience, utilizing artificial intelligence. He is a member of the TECNUN Resilience Group and the World
Alliance on Digitalization for Disaster & Emergency Management (WADDEM). He has also worked as a researcher with
the Knowledge Engineering Group (GRECO) and the Virus Outbreak Data Network Brazil (VODAN-BR). His research
interests include data science, machine learning, FAIR principles, resilience, disaster losses and climate change.
Publications
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Matheus Puime Pedra, Josune Hernantes & Leire Labaka. (2025)
Machine Learning and the Economic Losses in Disasters: Progress and Future Trends
Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
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Matheus Puime Pedra, Josune Hernantes & Leire Labaka. (2025)
Data-driven disaster resilience assessment: a case study in the Spanish transportation system.
Information Technology for Development
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Matheus Puime Pedra, Josune Hernantes & Leire Labaka. (2024)
Clustering-Based Framework for Assessing Transportation Resilience to Flood Events.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).
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Professional experience
Teaching & Mentorship
Teaching computer programming (MATLAB) to first-year engineering students, mentoring undergraduate thesis
projects in disaster resilience, and supervising internal projects in disaster management, including data
science, data collection, natural language processing, and data visualization following FAIR data principles.
Resilience Group
Development of a ML framework to estimate flood economic losses by integrating resilience
indicators and XAI techniques. The approach identifies drivers of impact, evaluates the effectiveness
of measures, and supports informed decision-making.
GRECO
Research for possible solutions to enhance semantic interoperability and data provenance in scientific repositories,
taking the genomic area as a use case. This investigation bases on FAIR data principles, nanopublication and FAIR
Knowlet schema.