Matheus L. D. Araújo, Ph.D.

Professional Experience:

• Project Staff at Cleveland Clinic's Sleep Disorders Center (Cleveland, OH - Feb 2022 - Current)

  • Joint appointment at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Lerner Research Institute.

• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH - Apr 2023 - Current)

• Senior Data Scientist at IBM Chief Analytics Office (Armonk, NY - Summer Internship - 2021)

• Research Intern at Inspire Medical Systems (Minneapolis, US. May 2019 - May 2021, Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 ) .

• Volunteer ❤ Data Scientist at One Heart Health (Minneapolis 2019 - Today):

  • Role: Create an auscultation algorithm for congenital heart disease classification using deep learning (more info) and (more info).

• Data Science Intern at Nokia Bell Labs  (Cambridge, UK. May 2018 - August 2018 )  .  

• Research Assistant at Qatar Computer Research Institute (Doha, QA. September 2016 - June 2017) .  

• Graduate and Undergraduate Research Assistant at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, September (2012 - 2016)

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, USA.  (Fall 2017 -  Fall 2021)

  • Area: Applied Machine Learning in Medicine

  • Thesis:  Predicting Therapy Adherence: A Machine Learning Approach

  • Advisor: Jaideep Srivastava

  • Thesis Defense: Text Link and YouTube Link 

• Master's Degree in Computer Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil). (July 2015 - July 2017)

  • Thesis: Machine Translation for Multilingual Sentence-level Sentiment Analysis (more info)

  • Adivisor: Fabricio Benevenuto

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Minas Gerais

  • Studied at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (2013/2-2014/2) - Brazil's Science Without Borders 

Publications

Here is a list of selected publications. 

For more info, check My Google Scholar

Teaching Experience

• • At the University of Minnesota: 

    • Lecturer of Introduction to Programming Concepts (CSCI 1133) [Fall 2020]. I loved this experience, and I'm proud that my students loved too: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/2626883

    • Teaching assistantof Introduction to Programming Concepts (CSCI 1133) [Spring 2019][Fall 2019]

    • Teaching assistantof Practice of Database Systems (CSCI 4707) [Fall 2017][Spring 2018][Fall 2018]

  • At Federal University of Minas Gerais: 

    • Teaching assistant of Algorithms and Data Structures (DCC 003) [Spring 2016]

Grants and Sponsorship Awards

• R21 NIH Grant Award - National Heart Lung and Blood Institute - Project Number: 1R21HL170206-01 (9/2023 - 9/2025)

  • Title: Applying Innovative Artificial Intelligence Approaches to a Large Sleep Physiologic Biorepository to Integrate Sleep Disruption in Cardiovascular Risk Calculation

• Industrial Student Support [ Jan-Aug 2020 ]

  • Company: INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS

  • Project Role: Data analysis and applied machine learning on sleep apnea therapy.

Patents

• Inspire Medical Systems - [Pending - US20230395262A1] Systems and methods for monitoring implantable medical device usage and treatment plan adherence 

Systems Developed

• Visualizing health-related interests in Arab League Countries: http://scdev5.qcri.org/sha/

• iFeel: A Sentiment Analysis Framework: www.ifeel.dcc.ufmg.br Docker Version

• PsyCalculator : Registered at Brazil Government Agency - INPI as : BR 51 2018 001063-6

Open Source Projects:

• pySocialWatcher: A Social Data Collector from Facebook Marketing API: https://github.com/maraujo/pySocialWatcher and inspired the World Bank to create their R version https://github.com/worldbank/rsocialwatcher .

Used at:

• • • • (Israel vs Hamas war) - Unraveling the impact of the Hamas-Israel war on short and mid-term population internal displacements in the Gaza strip - (paper)

      • (Russia vs Ukraine war) - Nowcasting Daily Population Displacement in Ukraine through Social Media Advertising Data - (paper) (slides)

      • (Migration Crisis) "Combining Social Media Data and Traditional Surveys to Nowcast Migration Stocks"

      • (Gender Inequality) "Measuring Subnational Digital Gender Inequality in India through Gender Gaps in Facebook Use"

      • (Migration Crisis) "Studying Migrant Assimilation Through Facebook Interests"

      • (Gender Inequality) "Using Facebook ad data to track the global digital gender gap"

      • (Disinformation) Rumours, mis- and disinformation in divided societies: Twitter and the Ardoyne parade dispute

Scientific review and PC member for:

• (2024) - Computers in Biology and Medicine

• (2024) - SLEEP - Oxford - Oxford University Press

• (2024) - Brain Informatics - Springer Nature 

• (2024)⭐National Institutes of Health (NIH) - NHLBI MENTORED PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH STUDY SECTION - 02/29/24 - 03/01/24

• (2024)⭐Nature - NPJ Digital Medicine 

• (2024) IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems - ICBMS 

• (2024) [Guest Adivisor] - The Intersection of Wearables and Sleep Medicine at Nature and Science of Sleep. Link.

• (2021,2023) Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - EMNLP 

• (2023) Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL 

• (2022 - 2024) ACM Web Science Conference 

• (2022 - 2024) IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 

• (2022, 2023)⭐ American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 

• (2022) Knowledge and Information Systems - Springer-Nature 

• (2022) 3rd Workshop on the Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable x

• (2022) International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDH) 

• (2021) EPJ Data Science 

• (2021) International Journal of Web Based Communities 

• (2021) Data Science Journal 

• (2020) Data Technologies and Applications

• (2020) Natural Language Engineering 

• (2020) Population Research and Policy Review 

• (2018-2019) Language Resources and Evaluation(LREv) 

• (2018) International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (IJITDM)

Highlights

• 1st most cited author in EPJ Data Science (2016) (reference)

• Reference of PySocialWatcher at World Bank (link)

• White belt (4 stripes) in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (🥋) at Cleveland Levitate Jiu-Jitsu Academy (previous at Rio Pro Bjj) (2022/09 - Current).

  • Everyone is equal on the mat, and it is one of the few places on earth where you can experience, at least for a few minutes, the harsh but unbiased truthiness of reality. 

Press Coverage

(Jan/2025) Harnessing the Power of AI for Pediatric Cardiology: An Interview with Matheus Araújo

(May/2024) Beyond the “likes”: How can we harness Facebook’s marketing data for research?

(Nov/2023) Study links sleep disorder with increased risk of irregular heart rhythm

(Aug/2023) Machine Learning May Streamline Identification of Central Hypersomnolence Disorders

(Feb/2023) Panelist at ATS (American Thoracic Society) for a TwitterChat on "An Additional Year of Sleep Training: Opportunity versus Opportunity Cost?"

PhysioNet Challenge Nets Success ( Maiby’s Algorithm: A Two-stage Deep Learning approach for Murmur Detection in Mel Spectrograms for Automatic Auscultation of Congenital Heart Disease​)

(Bloomberg) Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. Announces Events at SLEEP 2022, the 36th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep

Ex-aluno afirma que o DCC abriu seus olhos para a pesquisa e para o mundo, além de trazer autoconfiança no conhecimento que recebeu para traçar o próprio caminho

Sneak Peek: The Algorithm That Will Change Pediatric Cardiac Screening

How Artificial Intelligence Will Save Kids’ Hearts

International student TAs conquer language barriers

As máquinas sabem o que você faz. Agora querem saber o que você sente

Entrevista: Matheus Araújo, Pesquisador em Machine Learning

Erdos Number: 4

Matheus Araujo -> Ingmar Weber -> Zvi Lotker -> Noga Alon -> Paul Erdos

Mathematical Descendancy: Carl Friedrich Gauss

Matheus Araujo (2021*) -> Jaideep Srivastava (1988) -> Chittoor Vijayaraghavalu Ramamoorthy (1964) -> Donald Winston Tufts (1960) -> Norbert Wiener (1913) -> Karl Schmidt (1898) -> Paul Gerhard Natorp (1881) -> Hermann Cohen (1873) -> Friedrich Albert Lange (1851) - > Julius Plücker (1823) -> Christian Ludwig Gerling (1812) -> Carl Friedrich Gauß (1799)

Personal Definitions

"Artificial Intelligence is any kind of object crafted  by an intelligent being that has the purpose of mimicking its creator behavior partially or totally in a non-trivial way."

"Truth is the projection of the reality in a communication medium after passing through an observer's lens."