Dr. Leonardo Nascimento Ferreira is a senior research scientist at Samsung Research Brazil. Leonardo holds a Ph.D. in computer science and computational mathematics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and has worked as a researcher in different institutitions such as the University of Oxford (UK), Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany), the National Institute for Space Research (Brazil), and the Northwestern University (US). His research interests involve:

Leonardo's work focus on developing new computational methods to extract information from large and complex data. Dr. Ferreira also has experience and interest in multidisciplinary research in different areas such as climate sciences, bioinformatics, and computational social sciences.