Caio Souto Maior
/Caio Souto Maior
Visiting Assistant Professor
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE-Brazil)
Caio Souto Maior is an Assistant Professor at the Technology Center of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE-Brazil), and a researcher at the Center for Risk Analysis, Reliability Engineering and Environmental Modeling (CEERMA-UFPE). He holds a graduate degree (2015), master's degree (2017), and doctorate (2020) in Industrial Engineering (Area of concentration: Reliability Engineering) from UFPE. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UFPE (2020-2021) and holds a graduate sandwich degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain (2012-2013). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal PLOS One and a regular reviewer for journals such as Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Safety Science, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. He is currently a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Production Engineering at UFPE, an advisor in the Human Resources program of Brazil's National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels, a member of the Brazilian Society of Operational Research, and a member of the Brazilian Association for Risk Analysis, Process Safety and Reliability. He is involved in research projects with several Brazilian companies in the oil and gas sector. His scientific interest focuses on Reliability Engineering, Machine Learning (quantum, deep, machine), Computer Vision, Signal Analysis, Risk Analysis, and application in the energy sector. Recently, he has been developing projects aimed at decision support in the health sciences. He will work directly with Professor Droguett as a visiting scholar at UCLA for one year.
