Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda

Researcher

Guilherme's career has been characterized by interdisciplinarity. Guilherme received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Control Theory and Digital Systems from EESC-USP (Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo,Brazil) in 2011. He received his M.Sc. degree in 2013 and his Ph.D. degree in2017, both in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics, from ICMC-USP(Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil). During his Ph.D. he also obtained a scholarship for an internship at the University of Zaragoza. Guilherme is currently a team leader at the CENTAI Institute in Turin.

Research focus

During his Master's degree, Guilherme focused on studying how complex systems can contribute to machine learning algorithms and vice versa. During his Ph.D. and the first years of his postdoc, he focused more on propagation processes in single and multi-layer networks. Later, at the ISI Foundation, motivated by social models in group-structured populations, he decided to start studying hypergraphs, which is currently his main line of research. To sum up, Guilherme is interested in nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes in complex networks and structured populations and in their structural properties, especially their spectral properties.