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Rafael Oleques Nunes
psychology NLP Researcher

Bridging AI & Specialized Domains

I specialize in Natural Language Processing, building robust models for high-stakes domains like Law, Geology, and Healthcare. My research focuses on Information Extraction, Data Quality, and LLM adaptation for the Portuguese language.

Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UFRGS.

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school Education

2025 - Present

PhD in Computer Science

UFRGS

Advisor: Prof. Joel Luís Carbonera

2023 - 2025

MSc in Computer Science

UFRGS

🏆 M.Sc. Thesis Distinction

"Data contamination in specialized NER corpora"

2018 - 2023

BSc in Computer Science

UFRGS

2013 - 2016

Technical High School in IT

IFSUL Campus Charqueadas

🏆 Academic Laureate

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2025

Highlight Award (Destaque)

I Salão da Pós-Graduação - UFRGS

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2025

M.Sc. Thesis Distinction

Awarded by Examination Committee

Previous Honors

Academic Laureate (IFSUL) 2016
2nd Place, Programming Marathon 2016
1st Place, Exact Sciences Fair 2015
2nd Place, Humanities Fair 2015

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PhD Project 2021 - Present

GEORESERVOIR

Reservoir Geometry & Architecture Parameterization.

Advisor: Prof. Joel Luís Carbonera
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Clinical NLP

Automatic classification of medical information from clinical notes.

Advisor: Prof. Renata Vieira
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ImgDenoising & Advicor

Tools for image noise removal and assistive technology.

Advisor: Prof. Rodolfo Favaretto

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Organization Service

X TILIC 2025

X Workshop de Iniciação Científica em Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana

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Co-Supervisions (Advisor: Prof. Dennis G. Balreira)

Joao Pedro Kuhn Braun

2025

"Análise de Modelos de Linguagem para Extração de Entidades Nomeadas em Documentos Médicos em Português"

Vitoria Colonetti Benedet

2025

"Desafios na Associação de Imagens e Legendas em Português: Avaliação do modelo CLIP no Conjunto de Dados FM30k"

Eduardo Braga Rhoden

2024

"Exploring active sampling strategies for self-training in named entity recognition"

Matheus Stein Aguiar

2024

"Comparative analysis of the performance of large language models in the classification of legal texts"

Giovani Bombardieri

2024

"Automatic Generation of a Named Entity Set for Analysis of Political Speeches"