Before joining WPI Data Science/Computer Science, Fabricio Murai was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at  University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2016. His research lies in the application of mathematical modeling, statistics and machine learning to computer, informational and social networks. He has published in top scientific journals such as Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, ACM TKDD and PLOS ONE. He serves as a TPC member for the ACM SIGKDD, ECML-PKDD and WWW.​

Research: His research lies in the application of mathematical modeling, statistics and machine learning to computer, informational and social networks. ​

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