LUCIANO GRÜDTNER BURATTO
Current activities
2004-pres. PhD student in Psychology at
the University of Warwick,
Coventry, United Kingdom.
Teaching Assistant (Statistical Methods; Psychobiology).
Education
2001-2002 M.Sc., Computational Linguistics -
University of Amsterdam - The Netherlands [courses,UvA, Master's Program]
1996-2000 B.Sc., Major in Neuroscience -
University of Sao Paulo - Brazil [courses, USP, Molecular Sciences]
1998-1999 Exchange Program at McGill
University, Montreal, Canada [courses, McGill, Minor in
Neuroscience]
Work experience
2002-2004 Programmer at the Bioinformatics Group of
the Phytopathogen Genomics Laboratory (University of São Paulo)
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CGI/Perl programming;
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System administration for Local Area Network (Linux);
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Database management (PostgreSQL,MySQL) for biological data
2000-2001 Journalist and copydesk editor at Folha de
S. Paulo (www.folha.com.br)
[some articles (in Portuguese)]
Research Experience
2001-2002 University of Amsterdam - Department
of Computational Linguistics
Graduate
research student in Computational Linguistics
Supervisor:
Dr. Khalil Sima´an
- Theoretical investigation of probability estimators for Data-Oriented
Parsing models
- Development and implementation of new estimation procedure for DOP
models
using Python programming language
1999-2000 University of São Paulo -
Faculty of Medicine - Institute of Psychiatry
Undergraduate research assistent in Cognitive Neuroscience
Supervisor:
Dr. Claudio L.N. Guimaraes dos Santos
-Theoretical investigation on the neurobiological basis of inference
processing
(both deductive and inductive) by normal subjects
- Introduction to High-Resolution EEG
Research results
-Buratto, L. & Lamberts, K. (in press). List-strength effect without list-length effect in recognition memory.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. [.pdf]
-Sima'an, K. & Buratto, L. (2003). Backoff parameter
estimation for the DOP model.
Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (Machine Learning:
ECML'03), 2837,
373-384. [.ps .pdf]
-Buratto, L. (2002). Backoff as parameter estimation for DOP
models.
In D. de Jongh (Ed.), Master of Logic Series (MoL-2002-07),
Amsterdam: ILLC,
University of Amsterdam. [.ps .pdf]
-Deductive reasoning - a review of PET studies (poster) -
8º International Symposium of
Undergraduate Research of University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao
Preto, Brazil, November, 2000.
-Review on the neurobiological basis of deductive reasoning [.doc],
technical report submitted to National Research Council
(CNPq), August, 2000.
Scholarships
-Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship from the University of
Warwick.
September 2004/September 2007.
-Overseas Research Students Award Scheme from Universities UK.
September 2004/September 2007.
-University Fellowship Program from the Netherlands Organization for
International Cooperation
in Higher Education (Nuffic). September 2001/November 2002.
-Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the Brazilian National
Research Council (CNPq).
August 1999/August 2000.
-Exchange Program at McGill University from the "Conférence
des Recteurs et des Principaux
des Universités du Québec" (Crepuq). September
1998/April 1999.
-Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the Brazilian National
Research Council (CNPq).
August 1996/August 1998.
Language skills
Portuguese: native
English: very good spoken, written and read (IELTS score: 8,
range: 0-9)
Spanish: good spoken and read, adequate written
French: adequate spoken, written and read
Computers skills
Unix (Linux (debian), IRIX, Tru64) and Windows operating systems
PostgreSQL and MySQL database management system
Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Latex and HTML
Python, Perl, JavaScript (CGI) programming languages
(Previous experience with Scheme (Lisp) and C)
Hobbies
Reading, wine-tasting, travelling and hiking.
References
(click here for contact information)
Prof. Koen Lamberts
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Dr. Khalil Sima´an
Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Saulo Maciel de Barros
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo
Dr. Claudio L.N. Guimaraes dos Santos
Institute of Psychiatry, Clinicas Hospital, University of Sao Paulo