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Breno de Sousa Matos

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
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Saarland Informatics Campus
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
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Research Interests

  • Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing for online harms: hate, abuse, mis/disinformation.
  • Computational social science: radicalization, ideological communities, virality on social media
  • Auditing platforms and recommenders; measurement with large-scale crawls and bots.
  • Complex networks.

Publications

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  • Breno Matos, Francisco Galuppo, Rennan C. Lima, Flávio Figueiredo. “I’ve Heard This Before: Initial Results on TikTok’s Impact on the Re-Popularization of Songs.” 1st Latin American Music Information Retrieval (LAMIR) Workshop, 2024.
  • Breno Matos, Rennan C. Lima, Jussara M. Almeida, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Rodrygo Santos. “Intellectual Dark Web, Alt-lite and Alt-right: Are They Really That Different? A Multi-Perspective Analysis of the Textual Content Produced by Contrarians.” Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Springer.
  • Breno Matos, Rennan C. Lima, Jussara M. Almeida, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Marcos A. Gonçalves. “On the Presence of Abusive Language in Mis/Disinformation.” SocInfo ’22: 13th International Conference on Social Informatics, 2022.
  • C. H. G. Ferreira, F. M. Ferreira, Breno Matos, J. M. de Almeida. “Modeling Dynamic Ideological Behavior in Political Networks.” Journal of Web Science, 2019.
  • C. H. G. Ferreira, Breno Matos, J. M. Almeida. “Analyzing Dynamic Ideological Communities in Congressional Voting Networks.” SocInfo 2018.
  • Daniel Kansaon, Michele A. Brandão, Julio C. S. Reis, Matheus Barbosa, Breno Matos, Fabrício Benevenuto. “Mining Portuguese Comparative Sentences in Online Reviews.” WebMedia 2020.
  • Breno Matos, Fabrício Benevenuto, Ana P. C. da Silva. “A Nudez como Estereótipo de Beleza através das Lentes do Instagram.” BraSNAM 2021.
  • Breno Matos, C. H. G. Ferreira, J. M. Almeida. “Analisando a governabilidade presidencial a partir de padroes de homofilia na Câmara dos Deputados: Estudos de Casos no Brasil e nos EUA”. BraSNAM 2018.

Teaching & Service

  • Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Social Computing (May 2024 – Present).
  • Head Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Data Science (UFMG, Mar–Jul 2022). Oversaw 80+ students and semester projects.

Recent Positions

  • PhD Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Informatics — Saarbrücken, Germany (Aug 2025 – Present).
  • Data Scientist, Kunumi — Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Jul 2024 – Aug 2025).
  • Research Development Software Engineer, MPMG @ DCC/UFMG — Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Jan 2020 – Jul 2025).
  • Research Dev. Software Engineer, DataCommons Brazil (Google–UFMG) — (Sep 2023 – Oct 2024).
  • Research Assistant (Summer@EPFL), Data Science Lab, EPFL — Lausanne, CH (Jul 2022 – Oct 2022).
  • Full-Stack Developer, IBGE @ DCC/UFMG — (Oct 2020 – Mar 2021).
  • Research Assistant, LOCUS Lab @ UFMG — (Oct 2017 – Feb 2021).

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), Saarbrücken, Germany (Aug 2025 – Present).
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil (May 2021 – Aug 2024).
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, UFMG, Brazil (2017 – Mar 2021).

Awards & Recognitions

  • Google Latin America Research Award — Research grant (Dec 2023).
  • ICWSM-24 — Virtual Attendance Scholarship (May 2024).
  • Best Short Paper — BraSNAM 2021.
  • Best Full Paper Nominee — SocInfo 2018.