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      Israel Mendonça dos Santos

      I am an assistant professor at Kumamoto University. Trying to bridge the field of machine learning and other fields.

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Curriculum Vitae

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Personal Information

  • Name: Israel Mendonça dos Santos
  • 名前: メンドンサ　ドス　サントス　イスラエル
  • Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • email: israel at cs dot kumamoto-u dot ac dot jp
  • Office: Big Data Science and Technology, Division of Informatics and Energy, Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University 2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
  • 住所:〒860-8555 熊本市中央区黒髪2-39-1 熊本大学大学院先端科学研究部情報・エネルギー部門先端工学第四分野（ビッグデータ）
  • Phone: +81-96-342-3632

Education

  • [2015-2019] Doctor of Engineering - Kyushu University, Japan.
  • [2011-2014] Master in Systems Engineering - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • [2007-2011] Bachelor in Computer Science - Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Work Experience

  • [2020-current] Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
  • [2019-2020] Researcher at Team AIBOD, Fukuoka, Japan.
  • [2015-2019] Research Intern at Team AIBOD, Fukuoka, Japan.
  • [2014] Java Developer at Nova OWSE Informatica ,Brazil.
  • [2011] Intern at Nova OWSE Informatica, Brazil.
  • [2009-2010] Founder and Software developer at BitWebJr, University Level Company, Brazil.

Research Experience

  • [2015] Research Intern (stagiaire de master) at University of Avignon, France.
  • [2012] Exchange Research Student at Kyushu University, Japan

Teaching

  • [2024] プログラミング演習I(C)
  • [2024] 情報１実験
  • [2023] プログラミング演習I(C)
  • [2023] 情報１実験
  • [2023] 数学演習
  • [2022] プログラミング演習I(C)
  • [2022] 情報１実験
  • [2022] 数学演習
  • [2021] 情報１実験
  • [2021] プログラミング演習I(Python)

Awards

  • Best Paper Award - Optimizing Wireless Sensor Network Topology With Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Source/Destination Scenarios - BDCAT2024 - Kosei Kobayashi, Pedro Henrique González, Masayoshi Aritsugi, Israel Mendonça
  • Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award (Third Place) - Disaster Image Tagging Using Generative Al for Digital Archives - JCDL 2024 - Kotaro Yasuda, Masayoshi Aritsugi, Yukiko Takeuchi, Akihiro Shibayama, Israel Mendonça
  • Best Poster Award - Not Seeing is a Flower: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Making IoT Platforms for Small-Scale Farms in Japan - IoT 2023 - Israel Mendonça, Angeline Chong, Masayoshi Aritsugi
  • Best Presentation Award - The 6th IIAE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Image Processing 2018

Technical Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java, Scala, C, C++, Verilog
  • Database Languages: MongoDB, Sql, Postgres
  • Frameworks: React, Springboot
  • Machine Learning: Pytorch, Keras, Tensorflow
  • Others: Docker, Kubernetes (only basic), Kafka, Redis

Languages

  • Portuguese (BR): Native
  • English: Fluent
  • Japanese: Advanced (N2, currently studying for N1)
  • French: Basic
  • Spanish: Basic

Community Work and Volunteering

  • When I was living in Brazil I often helped collecting and distributing food for poor communities in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.