João Pedro Mattos

João Pedro Mattos

Computer Science PhD Student

Rice University

Biography

Hello! I am João Pedro Mattos, a Computer Science PhD Student at Rice University. My research interests cover the intersection between Graphs and Machine Learning. I am currently advised by Prof. Arlei Silva.

Besides Computer Science, I am fascinated by art, specifically Music, Cinema and Literature! I have also played electric guitar since I was eight years old, so if you want to jam, just reach out!

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Email: jrm28 {at} rice {dot} edu

Interests
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Graphs
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2022 - TBD

    Rice University 🇺🇸

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2017 - 2022

    Universidade de São Paulo 🇧🇷

News

  • Nov 2024: Our paper “Attribute-Enhanced Similarity Ranking for Sparse Link Prediction” was accepted to KDD 2025! 🎉
  • Dec 2023: Accepted to Applied Research Internship at eBay Inc. - Summer 2024!

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Recent Publications

(2021). Semi-Supervised Graph Attention Networks for Event Representation Learning. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

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(2019). Smart toys and children's privacy: usable privacy policy insights from a card sorting experiment. Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication.

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