Krerley Irraciel Martins Oliveira

I study dynamical systems and ergodic theory. I may define it as a "blend" between probability and study of interactions of functions. In the last two years I founded and led a group in "applications of math", mostly in big data and artificial intelligence. This is quite new to me and, as usual, offers a new intellectual challenge. The nice thing is to see math making a difference in other people’s work, like sales or justice (two areas that we have projects in Brazil).I am especially interested in thermodynamical formalism in the last 18 years, a part of ergodic theory that was inspired by Physical Phenomena from Statistical Mechanics. Concerning applications of math in my new lab, I am focused on image and natural language processing, especially document classification, topic classification, named entity recognition and people counting in nonstructured environment.

I do not have a personal motto, but I do appreciate the quote by the extraordinary Pakistani Abdus Salam: "Scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind." With this in mind, I embarked on Mathematics since my Bachelor's Degree and completed a PhD with a dissertation on "Equilibrium States for Nonuniformly Expanding Maps" (IMPA, Brazil)