With his experience and expertise in Generative AI, Responsible AI, Causality, and Deep Learning, he is a sought-after speaker and lecturer. His passion for educating people on Ethics in AI and mitigating risks with AI applications led him to develop and deliver workshops to businesses. Prior experiences include a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, where he researched synthetic data generation in partneship with Scotiabank. He also served as a Lecturer in the Computer Science department at the University of Regina. André holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Regina and an Industrial Engineering degree from Brazil. André also serves on the board of directors of Queer & Trans Health Collective. When he's not busy educating and researching, he enjoys cartooning, playing ukulele, bouldering, and practicing Japanese jiu-jitsu.

Talks & Panels

University of Alberta

Publications

A Novel Evaluation Model for Assessing ChatGPT on Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Certification Examinations: Performance Study JMIR Medical Education 2024
Upward Pass Semantics in Arithmetic Circuit Inference Proceedings of the Thirty-six Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CANAI) 2023
Evaluating ChatGPT-4 in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Board Examination using the CVSA Model Currently submitted to JMIR Medical Education 2023
Optimizing Inference in Bayesian Networks: From Join Tree Propagation to Deep Learning Thesis 2020
Deep Convolutional Sum-Product Networks Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019
Efficient Examination of Soil Bacteria Using Probabilistic Graphical Models Thirty-first International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems 2018
Bayesian Network Inference with Simple Propagation Twenty-ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) 2016
Darwinian Networks Twenty-eighth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2015
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