Carlos Henrique Tarjano Santos, PhD

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Experienced researcher with a focus on digital signal processing, audio synthesis, machine learning, and natural language processing. Proficient in developing efficient algorithms, implementing practical solutions, and leading research teams.

Education

EDUCATION

PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management (Revalidation 320240067419)   U.PORTO [Porto University] (07/03/2024 - 07/03/2024)

PhD in Production Engineering   UFF [Fluminense Federal University] (01/08/2018 - 28/07/2022)

Visiting Research Fellow at ICCMR   University of Plymouth (01/01/2020 - 31/03/2020)

MSc in Production Engineering   UFF [Fluminense Federal University] (01/03/2017 - 31/07/2018)

Bachelor's Degree in Production Engineering   CEFET [Federal Center of Technological Education] (01/03/2010 - 01/12/2015)

work

WORK

INESCTEC Researcher (15/01/2024) Designing and implementing an open-source Feature Store with built-in AutoML capabilities for time series forecasting, specifically tailored to the energy sector.

Match<IT> Head of Data (17/03/2023 - 15/01/2024) Managing a small team developing and implementing humanlike conversational interfaces and textual similarity algorithms employing state-of-the-art machine learning, NLP, and Agile software development techniques.

Match<IT> IA/NLP Researcher (24/10/2022 - 17/03/2023) Designing and implementing improvements in the algorithm used to match tech sellers with tech buyers based on tabular and textual descriptions.

UFRJ [Federal University of Rio de Janeiro] Administrative Assistant (27/01/2009 - 15/12/2022) In Brazil, federal positions such as this are very sought after, as they offer tenure and paid study leave, among other perks. They require passing a selective process with thousands of candidates for each vacancy. Working for more than a decade in one of the largest universities in Latin America has allowed me to explore a wealth of work experiences and develop a solid network, while pursuing formal education. Among the functions I was able to perform are:
Assisting in the administration of the International Relations undergraduate program, including creating its visual identity, analyzing its scholarly production metrics, and evaluating student performance.
Managing all aspects of the Philosophy graduate program, from maintaining its website to analyzing its scholarly production metrics, besides developing multiple solutions to optimize and automate the work processes.
Serving as vice-chief of IFCS financial center, where I assisted in planning and executing various projects, besides overseeing the use of the annual budget.
Supervising the logistics of document flow in IFCS, while implementing and enforcing digitalization and automation solutions.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Valdecy Pereira | Marcio Basilio | Carlos Tarjano : Enhancing decision analysis with a large language model: pyDecision a comprehensive library of MCDA methods in Python. Journal of Modelling in Management, August 2025. doi.org/10.1108/JM2-04-2024-0118.

Valdecy Pereira | Marcio Basilio | Carlos Tarjano : PyBibX - a Python library for bibliometric and scientometric analysis powered with artificial intelligence tools. Data Technologies and Applications, Volume 59, Issue 2, January 2025. doi.org/10.1108/DTA-08-2023-0461.

Carlos Tarjano : A general algorithm for the real-time emulation of pitched musical instruments and the singing voice. PhD Thesis - Production Engineering - Fluminense Federal University, 2022. dx.doi.org/10.22409/TPP.2022.d.11839251743.

Carlos Tarjano | Valdecy Pereira : An Efficient Algorithm For Segmenting Quasi-Periodic Digital Signals Into Pseudo Cycles: Application in Lossy Audio Compression. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Volume 30, May 2022. doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2022.3171969.

Carlos Tarjano | Valdecy Pereira : Envelope estimation using geometric properties of a discrete real signal. Digital Signal Processing, Volume 120, January 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2021.103229. Early manuscript available at arxiv.org/abs/2009.02860.

Carlos Tarjano | Valdecy Pereira : Neuro-Spectral Audio Synthesis: Exploiting characteristics of the Discrete Fourier Transform in the real-time simulation of musical instruments using parallel Neural Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11730, September 2019. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30490-4_30.

Carlos Tarjano | Valdecy Pereira : Simulação de instrumentos musicais acústicos em tempo real utilizando redes neurais paralelas no domínio da frequência. Anais do XXXIX Encontro Nacional De Engenharia De Produção - ENEGEP, 2019. dx.doi.org/10.14488/ENEGEP2019_TN_STO_292_1654_37336.

Carlos Tarjano | Ruben Gutierrez | Valdecy Pereira : Traditional and alternative bibliometric indicators: assessing the evolution of interest in project management paradigms. Anais do XXXIX Encontro Nacional De Engenharia De Produção - ENEGEP, 2019. 2594-9713.

Carlos Tarjano : Redes neurais aplicadas à modelagem de instrumentos acústicos para síntese sonora em tempo real. Master's Degree Thesis - Production Engineering - Fluminense Federal University, 2018. dx.doi.org/10.22409/TPP.2018.m.11839251743. Available online(Portuguese).

Carlos Tarjano | Valdecy Pereira : Neural Networks as a Tool for Big Data: The State of the Art. Anais do I Simpósio Internacional de Network Science - SINS, 2017. networkscience.com.br/anais/.

Carlos Tarjano | Magda Leite | Paula Purcidonio : O Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos em Startups Baseadas em Inovação Criativa. Espacios. Vol. 37 (Nº 07). Pág. 6, 2016. 0798 1015.

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PROJECTS

2025 - CodeWeaver. Command-line tool that transforms your codebase into a single, navigable Markdown document. GitHub Repo stars.

2025 - CloudMapper. Command-line utility designed to help you understand and Analyse your cloud storage. GitHub Repo stars.

2024 - Dead Simple Blog Generator. Command-line tool that transforms a directory of Markdown and/or HTML files into a static website. GitHub Repo stars.

2023 - Piano Forte. Piano synthesizer based on a lightweight (~600KB, ~150k parameters) neural network and a novel representation for Quasi-Periodic signals. GitHub Repo stars.

2022 - Omnes Sonos. The first plugin to leverage neural networks to sound synthesis in real-time.

2022 - Harmonic Compression. Lossy compression codec based ond pseudo cycles segmentation. Registered in Brazil under the number BR512022000697-9.

2021 - Mark Book. Cross-platform songbook developed in Flutter. Available for Windows, Android and Web. Registered in Brazil under the numbers BR512022000618-9 BR512022000620-0.

2021 - Signal-envelope. A Python module to extract the envelope of digital signals. Registered in Brazil under the number BR512022000622-7.

2021 - BibRust. Bibliographic manager made in Rust. Registered in Brazil under the number BR512021000226-1.

2020 - Neural Piano. Neural networks based piano software. Registered in Brazil under the number BR512020001653-7.

2018 - SongB. A minimalist songbook app with chord detection, easy chord repositioning and optimized C++ code. Registered in Brazil under the number BR512020001654-5.

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OTHER

2025 - Conference. Liderar a Mudança: Soluções para um Novo Paradigma Energético. 26 de junho 2025 Centro de Congressos, Super Bock Arena. INESCTEC Stand about the digital platform CLOUDIA4.eu as the responsible for the Voltus Feature Store.

2025 - Blog. The Fortnightly Tambourine. A blog with the objective of popularizing science.

2025 - Peer Review. Paper Review for EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing.

2023 - Funding. Auxílio à Pesquisa - Pesquisa Inovativa em Pequenas Empresas - PIPE. Elaboration of a successfull funding proposal for the Brazilian Agency FAPESP, securing a total funding of R$ 1.000.000,00 (Approximately 160.000 Euros). More details at orcid/funding.

2023 - Interview. Adeus aos longos formulários: como especificar projetos com conversas simples. Interview as Match<IT> Head of Data about conversational agents.

2014 - Crowd Funding campaign. Carcara Eco Footwear. Crowd Funding campaign for a line of eco-friendly shoes.

skills

SKILLS

AI

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Python

Pytorch

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

Natural Language Generation (NLG)

LangChain Guidance

large language models (LLMs)

C++

JUCE NeMo-Guardrails

PostgreSQL

ONNX spaCy Dart/Flutter

Rust

Candle

JS/Html/CSS

Tensorflow

Keras

Blender

CGI

Data Science

Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Real-Time Sound Synthesis

Product Development

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Git/Gitlab (source code version control)