About

Danilo Carvalho is the AI Lead for the National Biomarker Centre - Cancer Research UK, University of Manchester, as part of the Digital Cancer Research team, working on Safe and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) for cancer research.

He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), having worked as a systems analyst within Brazilian state oil company (Petrobras) on job safety analysis (JSA) and environmental licensing control systems, followed by several scientific and technological projects in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Information Systems, such as EasyESA and TDV (semantic representation), LangVAE and LangSpace (representation learning and probing), SylloBio-NLI (biomedical inference evaluation) among others.

Contact: [first name].[last name]@manchester.ac.uk

Interest/Research Areas

General Areas:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics
• Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing
• Data Science
• Software Engineering

Specific Areas

• Explainable AI
• Representation Learning
• Language Models
• Open Information Extraction
• Patent / Bibliographical Databases
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Information Systems Modeling

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Information Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
  Thesis title: Patent claim segmentation through neural-based semantic analysis (pdf) Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Minh Le Nguyen, Prof. Dr. Satoshi Tojo

• M.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
  Thesis title: Semantic relation extraction from patent claims (in Portuguese) (pdf) Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Felipe França, Prof. Dr. Priscila Lima

• B.Sc. in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Previous Industry Experience:

• Computer Programmer / Systems Analyst, Electronic Computing Center (UFRJ) - Software development for the Energy Distribution sector and Oil Industry (Plant simulation, HR planning).

• Computer Programmer / Systems Analyst, Hartmann IT (LLC) - Software development for the Oil Industry (Job Safety Analysis, environmental licensing).

Academic Advisory

• B.Sc.:
• João Pedro Gandarela de Souza: Construção de Grafos de Relacionamento Semântico a partir de Sentenças em Português e Inglês. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. With Prof. Dr. João Carlos Pereira da Silva
• Karen Torres Teixeira, Andre Felipe de Paiva Cardozo: Extração de Relações em Sentenças em Português. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. With Prof. Dr. João Carlos Pereira da Silva
• Raul Bezerra Barbosa: Extração de Grafos de Relacionamento Semântico a partir de Estruturas Sintáticas - Uma nova iteração. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. With Prof. Dr. João Carlos Pereira da Silva
• M.Sc.:
• Eric Ferreira dos Santos: Pattern Identification of Bot Messages for Media Literacy. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. With Prof. Dr. Jonice Oliveira Sampaio
• Ph.D.:
• Mauricio Jacobo Romero: Analysis of BP automation as linear time-invariant (LTI) system network. University of Manchester. With Dr. André Freitas
• Philip Osborne: Improving Real-World Reinforcement Learning by Self Completing Human Instructions on Rule Defined Language. University of Manchester. With Dr. André Freitas
• Yingji Zhang: Formal Semantic Control Over Language Models. University of Manchester. With Dr. André Freitas

Publications

See my list of publications.

Reviewer & PC Memberships:

• PC member for AAAI 2026
• Reviewer for ARR / ACL (2021 - 2026)
• PC member for SCIDOCA 2026
• PC member for ERSI-RJ 2021
• PC member for ICCCI 2020 (Special Session on Deep Learning and Applications for Industry 4.0)
• PC member for KSE (2018 - 2020)
• PC member for FATES (2019)
• Reviewer for Data & Knowledge Engineering (2017)
• Reviewer for LNAI (2017)
• PC member for JURISIN (2015, 2016)