Research — Toronto Metropolitan University
Research work in Toronto, continuing on applied artificial intelligence.
Giordano de Pinho Souza
Researcher and builder
Over the last five years I helped build a digital health company from its first employee, then structured national R&D programs that secured more than R$5 million in non-dilutive funding. I am now doing research in TMU Toronto to evaluate models in healhcare tasks.
- Based: Toronto, ON · CA
- Currently: Research — Toronto Metropolitan University
- Origin: Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Experience
Co-Host — Cappis
Cappis Coworking Movement — a weekly gathering where artists, engineers, founders, researchers and designers collide to push the passion projects that usually get put off.
Partner — R&D — Ana Health
Structured national AI innovation programs with the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), securing roughly R$5M in non-dilutive grants.
Partner — Product — Ana Health
Also got hands-on with Ana Health's core care-delivery platform. The goal was to make it stable enough to cut down the response time between patients and our doctors — pulling together our contact center (Twilio Flex), our CRM data, and the electronic health record system where each patient's health data lived. We set a 4-minute average response-time target between patient outreach and the care team as we scaled to nearly 1,000 patients supported by ~30 healthcare professionals.
First Employee — Business Development — Ana Health
Joined as Ana Health's first employee, building a product from zero against huge, incumbent health insurance plans. We tried a content strategy first, but it never really took off. We leaned into Outbound Sales instead, but that started to saturate too, so we restructured it from the ground up — and eventually moved to Inbound, which converted much better.
Engineer — Escuderia UFJF — Formula SAE
A new, small Formula SAE team. We led project management across five core engineering and operations areas and reached our first national competition with the car — but it broke down during the final race.
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science — Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Research focus: Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Personalized Healthcare.
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering — Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Elementary and Middle School — Jesuítas
Research funding
EMBRAPII — ~R$1M
Generative AI for personalized digital primary healthcare and early LLM experimentation. Awarded non-dilutive R&D funding.
FINEP — ~R$4M
Large-scale Generative AI for intelligent clinical assistance and personalized care delivery using LLM frameworks. Finalist for the FINEP Innovation Award.
Publications
- A comprehensive qualitative analysis of patient dialogue summarization using large language models applied to noisy, informal, non-English real-world data
- Tailoring Treatment in the Age of AI: A Systematic Review of Large Language Models in Personalized Healthcare
- Human-Centred LLMs in Personalized Healthcare: A Survey
- Beyond English Benchmarks: Clinical LLM Evaluation in Brazilian Portuguese
- Plataforma APS Digital: Ferramenta para gestão, monitoramento e atendimento na Atenção Primária à Saúde