Luiz Gustavo Sereno is an Economist and a Ph.D. candidate in Economic Theory at Unicamp, Brazil. He is a researcher at the Center for Applied Economics at Unicamp and teaches Statistics and Econometrics at FACAMP. With a focus on Econometrics, his expertise encompasses Economic Demography, Reproductive Health, Economic Impact Assessment, Bioeconomics, Climate Change, Econometric Modeling, Machine Learning, and the application of Big Data Analysis to Economics. He boasts significant experience in data collection, processing, and management. He is the founder and Data Coordinator of the Painel da Floresta (Forest Panel), which stands as the foremost platform for integrating and visualizing data pertaining to Brazilian bioeconomics. He serves as the Data Manager for the DZC Project.
Welber Tomás de Oliveira is an economist and a PhD candidate at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil. He is a researcher at the Center for Social-Economic Studies, Research, and Projects (CEPES) at UFU. His expertise includes causal impact analysis of public policies, with a focus on the Water and Sewage Sector (WSS) and the labor market. Additionally, he has contributed to several technical projects related to WSS in Brazil. He is a Data Analyst for the DZC Project.
Fernanda Eustáquio holds a Master in Computer Science in Computational Intelligence from the Federal University of Bahia UFBA, Brazil. She serves as a Data Engineer at the Health Data and Knowledge Integration Center (CIDACS) by developing preprocessing models in PySpark for health and social programs datasets. She has experience in capturing data by Web Scraping, generating data analysis reports, cleansing and treatment for modeling data, and maintaining ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline. In her research experience, she worked with Machine Learning clustering techniques (hard and fuzzy) to group categorical and numeric high-dimensional datasets. She is a Data Analyst for Quality Control for the DZC Project.
Giovanni dos Santos Vargette is an undergraduate student in Economics at the Institute of Economics at UNICAMP, Brazil. He has a strong interest in areas related to Applied Economics, participating in undergraduate research projects on the Crime Economy under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Justus, a leading expert in the field in Brazil. In these projects, he evaluated the impact of COVID-19 on the series of intentional homicides in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Additionally, he developed the BrazilCrime package for the R programming language, aimed at providing data and tools for analyzing crime and violence statistics released by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security. He has experience as a junior data analyst in the Painel da Floresta (Florest Panel) project, a platform for integrating and visualizing data on the Brazilian bioeconomy. He is a junior data analyst for the DZC Project.