Curriculum Vitae

João Victor Pacheco Dias

Medical AI Architect · Digital Health Ecosystem · PhD Candidate FMUSP

João Victor Pacheco Dias
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Professional Profile

João Victor Pacheco Dias is the technology architect behind an ecosystem of digital health companies. He designs and maintains the AI infrastructure, a shared platform powering multiple verticals: WingsAI (health R&D), IA para Médicos (medical education), GeekVision (digital products), ConnectAI/Repport AI (sales intelligence) and PacienteAlerta (treatment adherence). Since 2026, he is also partner and CTO at Lyen (medical jobs platform) and CTO at Spero Science AI. Each company has a CEO dedicated to its market; JV makes sure technology is never the bottleneck. He is also a PhD candidate in Ophthalmological Medical Sciences at FMUSP (started 2024).

His portfolio focuses on ophthalmology and tools for scientific research, including: BlinkTracking (academic validation at FMUSP), Protocolo Medicina (medical image analysis), IA para Médicos (scientific education), Format Papers and Humanizador (academic tools). Fintech background evidenced by SmartFin, finalist of the 2025 Fintech Award.

Working with data and artificial intelligence since 2012, he has built and led Data Science teams in investment banking (Captalys: 2020-2022), fintechs (iFood Pago: 2024-2025, Zoop: 2022-2024) and healthtech (GeekVision-HCFMUSP: 2017-present). He specializes in Computer Vision, NLP and building data functions from scratch to mature operation.

Portfolio

Products & Platforms

Healthcare AI

Protocolo Medicina

AI platform for ophthalmic image quality analysis. Under development for integration with a national medical quality system. Technical validation ongoing with institutional partners.

protocolomedicina.vercel.app

BlinkTracking v1.0

Blink analysis system for ophthalmic research, developed as part of the PhD in Ophthalmological Medical Sciences (FMUSP, started 2024). Face detection with dlib and MediaPipe.

blinktracking.vercel.app

Academic Tools

IA para Médicos

Educational ecosystem for healthcare professionals. Course platform and ArtigoAI+ with 15 specialized assistants for medical scientific writing. B2C model in operation.

cursos.iaparamedicos.com.br

Format Papers

Automatic formatting of scientific manuscripts for 22+ high-impact journals (Nature, Science, Cell, Lancet). Cuts formatting time from hours to minutes.

format-papers.vercel.app

Humanizador

Detection of AI use in scientific texts. A tool for academic integrity and compliance with journal guidelines. Under development.

humanizador.vercel.app

Fintech Background

SmartFin

AI financial copilot for income statement, cash flow and balance sheet analysis via WhatsApp. Finalist of the 2025 Fintech Award. Previous fintech expertise applied to a new domain.

smartfin.ai

Strategic Positioning

Main Focus: Healthcare AI specializing in ophthalmology and tools for scientific research

Academic Validation: Products developed alongside the PhD at FMUSP, ensuring scientific rigor

Track Record: more than a decade leading data transformation in banks, fintechs and healthtech

Differentiator: A unique combination of technical expertise, scientific validation and experience scaling AI products from scratch

Wings Group AI: Holding company unifying all initiatives - wingsgroup.ai

Experience

Professional Experience

Partner & CTO

Lyen [06/2026-Present]
  • • Technical leadership of the medical jobs platform
  • • Platform architecture and product roadmap

CTO

Spero Science AI [2026-Present]
  • • Technical leadership of the platform
  • • Architecture and integration of predictive models in production

CTO

AEO Brasil [07/2025-Present]
  • • Technology leadership of the community
  • • Digital transformation strategy
  • • Innovation in corporate solutions

CTO

Wings AI [02/2025-Present]
  • • Vertical AI
  • • Built MicroSaaS Leverage
  • • International Expansion

Data & Analytics Management

iFood Pago [07/2024-02/2025]
  • • Management of transactional data ingestion into the Data Lake using AWS DMS, S3 and PySpark
  • • Continuous optimization of Data Lake jobs with AWS EMR and Glue
  • • Creation of interactive dashboards for general analysis, anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud detection

Senior Vice President of Data Science and Analytics

Captalys [08/2020-10/2022]
  • • Structured the areas and set up the Analytics, BI, Data Science, Portfolio Monitoring and Data Engineering teams
  • • Led the transformation of the company into an AI-Ready company
  • • Implemented: the Data Lake, the Machine Learning model deployment environment, GraphQL to unify the API queries and the models documentation
  • • Designed systems focused on scale, reproducibility and automation
  • • Our teams provide world-class products

Lead Data Scientist

NTT DATA [08/2019-07/2020]
  • • Planned and executed large data science projects
  • • Organized the career development of the Data Scientists at the company
  • • Participated in management meetings to help establish data roadmap and strategies
  • • Built a great team by both recruiting great talent and helping them grow
  • • Implemented DataPrivacyOps with Federated Learning, Differential Privacy and Multi-party Computation

Statistical Analyst

Fundação Getúlio Vargas [01/2014-12/2015]
  • • Created the sentiment analysis model for political debate in social media
  • • Developed a spam filtering machine learning model applied to text data and Twitter account attributes
  • • Co implemented social network graphs framework, which illustrated major national and international newspapers, covers such as the Financial Times
  • • Co implemented a Bayesian spatial model using Twitter data applied on calculating ideological ideal points for legislative actors in Brazil

Technology Consultant

Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia [09/2024-Present]
  • • Consulting on technology solutions
  • • Development of AI guidelines
  • • Strategic innovation support

Head of Data & Analytics

Zoop [11/2022-07/2024]
  • • Datalake expansion
  • • Built Data Products
  • • Data Contracts, Data Quality

StartupMentor

Bluefields Aceleradora [05/2019-Present]

Artificial Intelligence Mentoring.

Head of Artificial Intelligence

IA para Médicos [06/2018-Present]
  • • Editor of Artificial Intelligence Futurism news applied to Medicine
  • • Workshops about productionizing AI projects

Artificial Intelligence Coordinator

GeekVision - Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo [05/2017-Present]
  • • Supports AI innovation at University of São Paulo's Ophthalmology Clinics Hospital
  • • Implemented Convolutional Neural Networks to assist low vision patients on identifying chosen elevators
  • • Developed an Eye Drops Identifier with RetinaNet
  • • Implemented Dashboards integrated with non relational databases to structure clinics data and deliver on a mobile solution
  • • Developed a Dry-Eye disease solution with Neural Networks on Smartphones

Data Scientist

NTT DATA [08/2017-08/2019]
  • • Coordinated NTT DATA Machine Learning Community Americas
  • • Led the Data Science team on publishing research papers
  • • Spread AI culture and helped attracting more talent to the company
  • • Supervised Neural Networks architecture framework implementation
  • • GAN architectures for data augmentation
  • • Automatic documents classification with ELMO + BI-LSTM + CNN + CRF
  • • Developed a hybrid model for Automated Offline Handwritten Signature Verification on checkbooks using Convolutional Networks
  • • Stock price estimation using LSTM + Attention
  • • Object Detection, Recognition and Segmentation
  • • Face Recognition, Alignment and De-identification
  • • Developed a pedestrian tracking surveillance on Raspberry Pi 3
  • • Developed a Retrieval-based banking chatbot on Facebook Messenger with Tensorflow

Statistician

NIC.br [01/2016-08/2017]
  • • Developed an automated and optimized system focused on enduring brazilian´s complex Internet Traffic Measurement System database
  • • Implemented prototypes of Disclosure Control Methods for MicroData databases

Trainee

Fundação Getúlio Vargas [2013-2014]
  • • Developed a social Twitter bots identifier through NLP methods and model ensembling
  • • Co implemented social network graphs framework using Gephi and R packages
  • • Created R Shiny visualisations for Urban Mobility

Co Founder

estatisti.CO [12/2012-12/2013]

At 2012 he co-founded www.estatisti.co, a statistics based website focused on establishing a place where people could stay informed about the latest news, tips on career, Big Data, theoretical statistics, scientific articles, biographies, job opportunities, among other issues. It quickly became one of the brazilians most famous statistics website.

External Journalism Operator

Rede Globo [07/2008-09/2009]

Acted in aid of adjustment of satellite signals from mobile units of telejournalism, color correction, equipment assembly and lighting for journalism outdoors production.

Competitions

Kaggle
  • 148th of 2023 - PetFinder.my Adoption Prediction BRONZE MEDAL
  • 1776th of 9038 - Santander Customer Transaction Prediction
  • 666th of 3835 - Mercedes-Benz Greener Manufacturing
  • 838th of 2931 - APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection
Hackathons & Challenges
  • Gold Medal - OftalmoHack Hackathon, FMUSP (2025)
  • AI Mentor - HackHealthTech (2021)
  • Global Finalist - NTT DATA Hackathon (2018)
  • Semifinalist - Data For Climate Action, UN Global Pulse (2017)
  • Rio de Janeiro Semifinalist - SEBRAE Challenge (2012)

Topic Group Memberships

AI For Health: Artificial Intelligence for Ophthalmology

I.T.U./W.H.O. [09/2019-11/2022]
Education

Academic Background

Universities

InstitutionProgramYear
University of São Paulo, Medical School(FMUSP-HC)PhD in Ophthalmological Medical Sciences2024-2029
University of Mannheim [Incomplete]MS in Survey and Data Science2019
National School of Statistical SciencesB.S. in Statistics2010-2015
State Technical School Henrique LageElectronics Technician2007

Technical Skills

Computer Vision Predictive Modelling Machine Learning LLMs Team Coordination Data Visualisation

Additional Activities

ActivityInstitutionYear
Focus Group - Technical Course in Data ScienceSão Paulo State Department of Education2024
Special Student - Algorithm AnalysisUniversity of São Paulo2016

Tools

PyTorch Tensorflow Scikit-Learn Keras SciPy NumPy NLTK Unix Git Raspberry Pi Transformers Agile Gephi OpenCV

Languages

Portuguese Native
English Fluent
Spanish Beginner
Japanese Beginner

Certifications

TitleProviderYear
Turnitin Self-Check TrainingTurnitin2025
AI for EveryoneCoursera2019
Survey Skills Development CourseBrazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics2016
Big Data in HealthcareCoursera - University of São Paulo2015
Laboratório - RJFundação Estudar2015
Machine LearningCoursera - Stanford University2014
The Data Scientist's ToolboxCoursera - Johns Hopkins University2014
Practical Machine LearningCoursera - Johns Hopkins University2014
Data Analysis with RUdacity - Johns Hopkins University2014
Statistical Methods for Disclosure ControlBrazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics2012

Research Grants

TitleProviderYear
Milu Villela grant ($ 500 USD)TVST2021
Knights Templar Eye Foundation Travel Grant ($ 1,110 USD)ARVO2020
Tools for Formatting and Validation of Research MicrodataCNPq PIBIC2012
Media

Recognition & Publications

Awards

Most Valuable Professional

NTT DATA, 2018

TOP 46 - Valuable Young Leader

Harvard Business Review, 2018

Survey Skills Development Course

IBGE, 2017

Research Reports

TitleInstitutionYear
Strabismus and Artificial Intelligence App: Optimizing Diagnostic and AccuracyTVST2021
A polícia e os 'black blocs'. A percepção dos policiais sobre junho de 2013FGV/DAPP2014
Mobilidade urbana e cidadania: percepções dos usuários de transporte público no BrasilFGV/DAPP2014

Press

Podcast: How AI is Rapidly Accelerating the Growth of Small Businesses

Rede Tela, 2025

Podcast: The Future is Here! Is Your Company Ready for AI?

Rede Tela, 2025

How do data driven companies monetize their data?

Chief Data & Analytics Officer Brazil, 2021

Podcast: What is A.I.?

IPP - Radio Pinheiros, 2019

Grandes artistas na oftalmologia

Revista Universo Visual, 2018

What does a Statistician do?

Rádio Família 104.5fm, 2013

Published Books

TitleYear
ICT IN HEALTH 20162017
ICT IN HEALTH 20152016
ICT HOUSEHOLDS 20162017
ICT HOUSEHOLDS 20152016
ICT ENTERPRISES 20152016
ICT IN EDUCATION 20162017
ICT IN EDUCATION 20152016
ICT KIDS ONLINE BRAZIL 20162017
ICT KIDS ONLINE BRAZIL 20152016
ICT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 20162017
ICT IN CULTURE 20162017
CULTURA E TECNOLOGIAS NO BRASIL2017
ICT ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT 20152016
ICT PROVIDERS 20142015

Social Media

Academic Activities

Conferences, Talks & Teaching

Conferences

TitleConferenceYear
Invited Session - Offline Signature Recognition with Machine Learning11th IASC-ARS Conference2019
Tools for Formatting and Validation of Research Microdata21º SINAPE2014

Talks & Panels

Webinar: The New Lean Startup

FIAP, 2025

Webinar: What's Coming and What's Already Reality in Medical Offices

BRASCRS, 2025

Panel: AI and the Future of Ophthalmology

OftalmoHack, 2025

Talk: The History of Artificial Intelligence

XXXI International Symposium of Ophthalmology, 2025

Panel: AI in Business and Purpose-Driven Work

Igreja Butantã, 2025

Risks and Opportunities for Privacy and AI Marketing

Jacto, 2024

Data Privacy Ops and GDPR

CIAB, 2020

AI for Strabimus

ARVO, 2020

Tracking Systems for Banking Sector

CIAB, 2018

IX International Life Sciences Institute Congress

ILSI, 2018

Congresses

Brazilian Congress of Ophthalmology 2024 - Brasília CBO, 2024

IT congress for financial institutions CIAB, 2018

60th ISI World Statistics Congress ISI, 2015

Symposia

Innovations and AI in Ophthalmology XXXI SIOJT, 06/2025

Use of AI to develop diagnostic tools for assessing patients with Thyroid Eye Disease USP Eye Research Symposium, 09/2024

Web Scraping as a alternative data sources to predict E-Commerce indicators StatCan International Methodology Symposium, 2018

Workshops

Coordinated WetLab - Development of Artificial Intelligence Models

Brazilian Congress of Ophthalmology, 2025

Intro to LLMs and RAGs - 7th Week of Scientific Initiation

IBGE, 2024

No Code AI

XIII SBO, 2022

DRY AI - A mobile app to assist physicians on assessment of dry eye

ARVO Learn, 2019

VII NIC.br Annual Workshop on Survey Methodology

NIC.br, 2017

VI NIC.br Annual Workshop on Survey Methodology

NIC.br, 2016

Seminars

AI, Privacy and Open Banking

Bradesco Innovation Day, 2020

Meetups

Reproducing papers and evaluating benchmarks in the pre-training of Language Models in Portuguese Santander Meetups, 2019

DataOps Frameworks Itaú Meetups, 2019

Teaching

Vertical AI in Marketing ESPM, 2025

Vertical AI Mackenzie University, 2025

Telemedicine applied to Ophthalmology FM-USP, MOF-5770-31, 2024/03/14

AI in scientific research. For PhD students only FM-USP, MOF-5741, 2024/10/02

Innovation Class in Ophthalmology: How to train your algorithm USP HC, 2023

Introduction to Neural Networks Captalys, 2021

Innovation Class in Ophthalmology: ML for Physicians USP HC, 2020

Statistical Power for Data Scientists NTT DATA, 2019

Innovation Class in Ophthalmology: How to train your algorithm USP HC, 2019

The Grammar of Graphics NTT DATA, 2019

Data Visualization with Python and R NTT DATA, 2019

Introduction to Neural Networks NTT DATA, 2018

Machine Learning Hands-On NTT DATA, 2018

Convolutional Neural Networks NTT DATA, 2018

Introduction to TensorFlow Mackenzie, 2017