Germano Barcelos
Financial & Spatial Data Scientist · AI Researcher
About Me
I am a Data Scientist at C6 Bank and a Computer Science Researcher (MSc, Federal University of Viçosa – UFV), with expertise spanning Financial Data Science, GeoAI, Graph Machine Learning, and Spatial Optimization.
My journey in Data Science began in 2019 at NESPeD-Lab, where I investigated large-scale geospatial data enrichment and authored MoreData, an open-source framework integrating OpenStreetMap and GeoPandas to semantically enrich mobility and urban datasets. In 2021, I was selected for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with PySAL, implementing classic facility location and coverage optimization models (LSCP, MCLP, P-Center, and P-Median), and subsequently joined the core development team of the spopt library.
During my Master's degree, I focused on structural and positional graph neural networks for urban region representation learning—work recognized with the 3rd Place National Award at the Brazilian Computer Society's Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD-SBC 2026). Currently, as a Financial Data Scientist at C6 Bank, I apply machine learning, quantitative modeling, and scalable data pipelines to solve high-impact problems in the financial sector, while continuing research on graph learning, human mobility, and spatial decision-making.
Interests & Expertise
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
— C.S. Lewis