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\"\"Eduardo Cesar<\/span>In 2009, during his postdoctoral work at the Polytechnic School of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Poli-USP), mechanical engineer Fernando Orsatti realized that he could apply the knowledge he acquired as a professor and researcher to solving operational problems of companies. Along with three friends, all Poli-USP graduates, he founded M\u00ednimo, a company that develops computational systems to solve problems that require some type of mathematical modeling. This may include anything from implementing artificial intelligence algorithms for detecting credit card fraud to systems that optimize the distribution and logistics process.<\/p>\n

Orsatti completed his undergraduate studies in 2003 and immediately began working on his doctorate to study interconnected network systems, such as those that manage financial transaction systems. These systems are important because they are capable of remaining synchronized and stable even when one or more of the network systems fail. In 2007, after finishing his PhD, one of his professors, mechanical engineer Agenor de Toledo Fleury, invited him to teach mechanical vibration and modeling to undergraduate and master\u2019s students in the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program at the University Center of FEI in S\u00e3o Bernardo do Campo, S\u00e3o Paulo State.<\/p>\n

In 2011 he was invited to work on setting up an innovation engineering program for the S\u00e3o Paulo Engineers Association. After this work, Orsatti helped develop the engineering program at Insper, a private institution of higher learning in S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cThat was when I began to transition from my research and teaching activities to being a service provider for companies,\u201d he says. Beginning in 2016, Orsatti devoted himself to M\u00ednimo exclusively. He explains that the company intends to bridge the gap between the academic and corporate universes. \u201cOur job is to meet corporate requirements through a knowledge of advanced mathematics, and we bring together technical specialization and a mastery of the basics of mathematics to solve complex problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first the challenge was to establish and carve out the area in which the firm would work. \u201cBecause this service is not very common in the market, it took some time for us to package it properly and find clients.\u201d One client is Buscap\u00e9, which has a price and product comparison website. There is also Intercement, a cement manufacturer, as well as Sa\u00fade Crian\u00e7a de S\u00e3o Paulo (S\u00e3o Paulo Children\u2019s Health), a nongovernmental organization. More recently, the company obtained FAPESP funding through the Innovative Research in Small Businesses Program (PIPE) to develop a class scheduling system for teachers to replace a manual process. \u201cWe hope to strengthen the firm as a service provider in the area of mathematical modeling to increase its visibility in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mechanical engineer gave up teaching to open an applied mathematics company","protected":false},"author":346,"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":[228,246],"coauthors":[662],"class_list":["post-238050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-engineering","tag-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238050","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\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=238050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}