{"id":162405,"date":"2014-12-27T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=162405"},"modified":"2015-01-27T12:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:56:41","slug":"bridge-between-theory-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/bridge-between-theory-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge between theory and practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Claudia

Personal archive<\/span>Claudia Melo: time divided between work and researchPersonal archive<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

For Claudia de Oliveira Melo, 34, technology director at Thoughtworks (TW) in Brazil, her PhD dissertation was an instrument that brought deep insight into how knowledge is conveyed from theory into practice and vice-versa. \u201cI can build bridges between those two worlds, and that helps me advise people on how to exploit information and generate knowledge, or how to incorporate recent scientific results into the industry’s state-of-the-practice,\u201d says Melo, who is also an associate researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (IME-USP), where she obtained her PhD in computer science. Her PhD dissertation, designed to make an impact on academia and industry alike, was chosen as one of the top six dissertations of 2013 in a contest organized by the Brazilian Computer Society. \u201cMy research problem emerged during a meeting with a former head of TI of the Brazilian Central Bank, in which he asked whether agile software development methods would give organizations a productivity boost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two and a half years ago, Melo started working at TW, a US-based global consultancy and software design company. \u201cBy conciliating the end of my PhD and my first project at TW, I was able not only to apply knowledge from my research to accomplish the project, but also to refine the scientific results of my research through practical validation.\u201d At USP, Melo is part of a research project called \u201cEntrepreneurship in computer science and the software startup ecosystem\u201d, in which she informally co-advises a PhD student. The research is conducted collaboratively by IME-USP, the Israel Institute of Technology, the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), and\u00a0 the Vale Technological Institute. In her professional career, Melo has worked at companies both big and small, and has also owned her own consultancy startup. In 2001, a year after obtaining her undergraduate degree in computer science at the Federal University of Uberl\u00e2ndia, Melo was working in Rio de Janeiro, but felt the need to go back to school to improve her performance at work. At age 21, she moved to S\u00e3o Paulo and started a master’s program at IME. And then a third career emerged when she enrolled at USP: Melo started working as a computer teacher at universities including Senac (in S\u00e3o Paulo) and the Catholic University of Bras\u00edlia, where she also coordinated a graduate program. \u201cFor almost a decade of my life, I juggled industry, research, and teaching.\u201d In 2009, she left two jobs to return to USP and pursue a PhD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dissertation by Claudia Melo was designed to make an impact on academia and industry","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[219,264,246],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-162405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-computation","tag-information-technology","tag-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=162405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}