Marcel Caraciolo

Previous Experience in Education

Co-Founder of the brazilian educational social network called Atepassar.com. It focus on helping students to pass in the public exams to get a civil job. More over than 150 thousand students registered. (http://atepassar.com)
Co-Founder of the brazilian educational on-line platform PyCursos.com. It focus on teaching python and its applications around Brazil. More than 200 students already studied with us in several domains.(http://www.pycursos.com)
Co-Founder of the brazilian educational on-line platform Pingmind.com. It extends the PyCursos and teaches several domains besides Python such as Law, Medicine, Technology, etc. It still under development. (http://www.pingmind.com)
Teacher and Instructor of Python and Machine learning at local universities and companies.
Current position: Scientist Chief in those projects.

Speaker at Scipy Conference 2011, presenting my open-source project called Crab, a recommender system framework written in Python. (http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2011/)
Speaker since 2010 at the Brazilian Python Conference (PythonBrasil) with several talks about recommender systems and local communities. (http://www.pythonbrasil.org)
Speaker at the local community Pernambuco Python User Group (PUG-PE) as Senior Member. (http://pug.pe)

-- My Slideshare speakerdeck: http://slideshare.net/marcelcaraciolo

Developer and Maintaner of the recommender framework written in Python called Crab. (http://muricoca.github.com/crab)
Commiter of the Scikit-learn Project.
Open-sourced several libraries and projects. (http://github.com/marcelcaraciolo)
Maintaner of the AIMotion blog, a specialized blog in english about machine learning and artificial intelligence. (http://www.aimotion.blogspot.com)