afrânio melo
science, technology & literature
Hello, welcome! Here I share a bit of my work. Access texts, classes, links, and resources in the tabs at the top of the page. Check out contact information and additional details in the icons above. Below is a summary.
As a chemical engineer and data scientist:
- I work at Petrobras developing research and innovation in the field of oil and gas exploration and production, with a focus on artificial lift and flow assurance technologies.
- I have a bachelor’s degree from EQ/UFRJ and a master’s and doctoral degree in chemical engineering from COPPE/UFRJ. Over these twelve years of education, I had the honor of being guided by José Carlos Pinto, Fernando Pellegrini, Maurício Melo Câmara, and Heloísa Sanches.
- I participate in open-source projects that aim to apply artificial intelligence to the monitoring of industrial processes, such as BibMon, 3W and KydLIB.
- As a member of the EngePol Group, I participated in research projects on the interface between data science and process systems engineering.
- I have published scientific articles in journals such as Computers & Chemical Engineering, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, among others.
- I volunteered for the NGO Engineers Without Borders (RJ).
As a lecturer:
- I taught the course Data Science and Machine Learning in the Process Industry at the Prof. Giulio Massarani Pilot School. The twelve video lessons in Portuguese are available on YouTube.
- I taught the courses Mass Transfer and Unit Operations I for one year at EQ/UFRJ.
- I taught Chemistry for ten years at the Social Pre-University Course (Pré-Vestibular Social, PVS) of the CECIERJ Foundation.
- I conducted short courses on programming in Python, Matlab, and C/C++.
As a literary writer:
- I participated in the anthologies Furos na carne (Bestiário - 2022), Questão de tempo (Persona - 2022), Contos fantásticos (CBJE - 2017), Nó em pingo d’água (CBJE - 2016), and Histórias necessárias (Big Time - 2015).
- I won the Hernâni Cidade Literary Award in 2021, offered by the municipality of Redondo (Évora - Portugal), with the short story Pearly door.
- In 2021, I attended the 36th edition of the Literary Creation Workshop at PUC-RS, conducted by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil.
- I am currently immersed in the writing of Asymptote, my first novel.
news
May 4, 2023 | Defesa de tese - DSc |
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Nov 9, 2022 | Pré-lançamento: Furos na carne |
Jan 22, 2022 | De Nilópolis pra Portugal |
Dec 15, 2021 | Autor brasileiro vence Prémio Literário Hernâni Cidade |
Dec 5, 2021 | Redondo: Prémio Hernâni Cidade para obra “Porta de pérola” do autor brasileiro Afrânio de Melo Júnior |