Work Experience

Selected roles and responsibilities

Data Scientist - R&D Research & Data Science / StormGeo, SP, Brazil / Bergen, Norway

December 2021 - Current

  • Specialist in vegetation management using satellite data and statistical learning.
  • Main project: GridEyeS with HVL, eSmart, European Space Agency (ESA) and ENTSO-e.
  • Tools: AWS RDS, R, Python, Jupyter.

Researcher on Data Science for Market / Agroicone, SP, Brazil

April 2019 - December 2021

  • AI and Data Science for large scale economical benchmarks.
  • Data governance using PostrgreSQL/PostGIS in AWS.
  • Deforestation data analysis for environmental compliance assessment on beef and agricultural market.
  • Partnership period in 2016-2017.
  • Tools: PostgreSQL, R, Python, Google Earth Engine, QGIS, ArcGIS.

Data Engineer / SIAA, SP, Brazil

October 2018 - April 2019

  • Deep learning applications for oceanographic applications.
  • Maintenance of large scale hydrodynamic models on Linux servers.
  • Environmental consulting on projects involving water resources management.
  • Tools: R, Python, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, QGIS, Linux, CentOS, C++, AWS, JavaScript.

Technical Support Analyst / IBM, SP, Brazil

May 2010 - May 2011

  • Diagnosis of operational problems via telephone or remote connection and point forwarding/troubleshooting in business information systems.
  • Daily experience in communicating in Spanish and English.
  • Tools: Windows, IBM Lotus, Active Directory, VPN Cisco.

Education

Academic background

Publications

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Selected Papers [from a total of 45 journal articles]

  1. 2025

    Silva, C. O. F., Santarosa, L. V., Santos, V., Manzione, R. L., Gastmans, D. Predicting oxygen-18 and deuterium over South America: local meteoric water lines for countries and biogeographical regions. Hydrological Sciences Journal.

    DOI

  2. 2025

    Silva, C. O. F., Grego, C. R., Manzione, R. L., Oliveira, S. R. M., Rodrigues, G. C., Rodrigues, C. A. G. V. Delineation of management zones dealing with low sampling and outliers. Precision Agriculture.

    DOI

  3. 2025

    Silva, C. O. F., Manzione, R. L., Silva Neto, E. P. d., Bezerra, U. A., Cunha, J. E. Fusion of Remotely Sensed Data with Monitoring Well Measurements for Groundwater Level Management. Agriengineering.

    DOI

  4. 2024

    Silva, C. O. F., Grego, C. R., Manzione, R. L., Oliveira, S. R. M., Rodrigues, G. C., Rodrigues, C. A. G., Speranza, E. A., Luchiari, A., Koenigkan, L. V. Summarizing soil chemical variables into homogeneous management zones - case study in a specialty coffee crop. Smart Agricultural Technology.

    DOI

  5. 2023

    Silva, C. O. F., Manzione, R. L., Oliveira, S. R. M. Exploring 20-year applications of geostatistics in precision agriculture in Brazil: what?s next? Precision Agriculture.

    DOI

  6. 2023

    Silva, C. O. F., Manzione, R. L., Caldas, M. M. Net water flux and land use shifts across the Brazilian Cerrado between 2000 and 2019. Regional Environmental Change.

    DOI

  7. 2021

    Manzione, R. L., Silva, C. O. F., Castrignanò, A. A combined geostatistical approach of data fusion and stochastic simulation for probabilistic assessment of shallow water table level risk. Science of Total Environment.

    DOI

  8. 2021

    Silva, C. O. F., Matulovic, M., Manzione, R. L. New dilemmas, old problems: advances in data analysis and its geoethical implications in groundwater management. SN Applied Sciences.

    DOI

  9. 2020

    Magnoni, P. H. J., Silva, C. O. F., Manzione, R. L. Groundwater recharge and water table depth levels modelling using remotely sensed data and cloud-computing. Sustainable Water Resources Management.

    DOI

  10. 2019

    Silva, C. O. F., Teixeira, A. H. C., Manzione, R. L. agriwater: An R package for spatial modelling of energy balance and actual evapotranspiration using satellite images and agrometeorological data. Environmental Modelling & Software.

    DOI

  11. 2018

    Silva, C. O. F., Manzione, R. L., Albuquerque Filho, J. L. Large-Scale Spatial Modeling of Crop Coefficient and Biomass Production in Agroecosystems in Southeast Brazil. Horticulturae

    DOI
Books (In Portuguese) [total of 3 books]

  1. 2026

    Silva, C. O. F. Fusão de dados na agricultura de precisão.

    Ebook Editora Unesp

  2. 2019

    SLeivas, J., Teixeira, A. H. C., Silva, C. O. F., Manzione, R. L. Tutorial do pacote Agriwater para modelagem espacial da evapotranspiração no software R.

    Ebook Embrapa