Luan Trindade

Biomedical Informatics Researcher

Photograph of Luan Dalmazo

About Me

Biomedical Informatics undergraduate student at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), passionate about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, a researcher at Munai and a member of the Vision, Robotics, and Imaging Laboratory (VRI).

Research Interests

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Computer Vision Robotics

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Professional Experiences

Biomedical Informatics Researcher at Munai (2024 – Present)

Applied Machine Learning Researcher in Healthcare, focusing on developing innovative solutions, conducting statistical analyses, and writing scientific papers for conferences and journals.

Skills & Technologies

Python; Transformers; Neural Networks; Fine-Tuning; Git; Statistical Analysis (p-values, correlation); Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Researcher at National Education and Research Network (RNP) (2023 – 2024)

Researcher in the field of Identity Management and Security, with a focus on federations, service providers, identity providers, and proxy solutions. Also contributed to the writing of scientific papers for conferences in the field.

Skills & Technologies

Python; Django; Git; Computer Networks; Scrum; Docker; PHP.

Researcher at Center for Scientific Computing and Open Source (C3SL) (2022 - 2023)

Web development focused on an educational resource platform. Developed monitoring scripts and actively contributed to the Integrated MEC Red Platform project, including the implementation of a priority queue algorithm.

Skills & Technologies

Ruby On Rails; PostgresSQL; Git; Sidekiq; Redis; React; Node.js.

International Experience

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. (MITACS)

Researcher in image segmentation, responsible for developing and evaluating algorithms using 3D Slicer, nnU-Net, and Python. Work was conducted in high-performance computing environments, including Compute Canada, to handle large-scale medical imaging data. The following figure illustrates the pipeline designed for the ISLES 2024 challenge. The team ufpr_ua ranked 5th in the competition.

Image segmentation pipeline
Check a video with a detailed explanation.

Check the publication in the Publications section.

Publications

  • Ezequiel de la Rosa, Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Kumaradevan Punithakumar et al.
    2025. ISLES'24: Final Infarct Prediction with Multimodal Imaging and Clinical Data. Where Do We Stand?
    Preprint available on arXiv.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10966
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Gabriel Silva Hermida, Sergio Ossamu Ioshii, and Lucas Ferrari de Oliveira.
    2025. Reinhard it: Normalization and Classification on HER2 Images.
    In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Computing Applied to Healthcare (SBCAS 2025) – Undergraduate Research Paper Competition (CTIC). Porto Alegre, Brazil.
    https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcas_estendido.2025.7722
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Isadora Botassari, and Paulo Ricardo Lisboa de Almeida.
    2025. Classificação de Aves Predadoras: Fine-tuning Progressivo em Redes Neurais Convolucionais. (Birds of Prey Classification: Progressive Fine-Tuning in Convolutional Neural Networks)
    In Proceedings of Computer on the Beach 2025. Itajaí, Brazil.
    https://doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v16.p016-022
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo and Kumaradevan Punithakumar.
    2025. Final Stroke Infarct Segmentation Using Deep Neural Networks.
    In Image Analysis in Stroke Diagnosis and Interventions: MICCAI Challenge on Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 95–99.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81101-2_11
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Luize Cunha Duarte, Mateus de Oliveira Silva, Rian Marcos Sepulveda, Felipe Gustavo Bombardelli, and Eduardo Todt.
    2024. ALL TOO WELL: Survey on Robots in RoboCup@Home Brazil.
    In Proceedings of the V Brazilian Humanoid Robot Workshop (BRAHUR) and VI Brazilian Workshop on Service Robotics (BRASERO). Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
    https://doi.org/10.29327/v-brahur-vi-brasero.869313
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Jorge Farias, Airton Ribeiro Filho, Fiterlinge Sousa, and Michelle Silva Wangham.
    2024. Serviço GidLab: Impulsionando a pesquisa experimental em Gestão de Identidade (GidLab Service: Driving Experimental Research in Identity Management).
    In Anais do Computer on the Beach 2024, Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, 290–297.
    https://doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v15.p290-297
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Gabriel N. Hishida, Allan Cedric Gouvea Bruglimann Alves Da Silva, Tiago Serique Valadares, Rian Marcos Sepulveda, Seijiro Yanagiya Midzuno, Ketlyn Dos Santos, and Eduardo Todt.
    2023. Analysis of Dynamic PD Control Performance Compared to Standard PD in Track Follower Vehicle.
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2023 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR), and 2023 Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE). IEEE, 591–596.
    https://doi.org/10.1109/LARS/SBR/WRE59448.2023.10333038
  • Richard Fernando Heise Ferreira, Thalita Maria do Nascimento, Dante Eleutério dos Santos, Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, and Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona.
    2023. Content evaluation and gamification for educational platforms.
    In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 379–382.
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3614321.3614372
  • Luan Matheus Trindade Dalmazo, Jorge Soares, Fiterlinge Sousa, Airton Ribeiro Filho, and Michelle Wangham.
    2023. Federação SAML no GIdLab: Explorando o Potencial do SimpleSAMLphp para Experimentação (SAML Federation in GIdLab: Exploring the Potential of SimpleSAMLphp for Experimentation).
    In Anais Estendidos do XXIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 113–116.
    https://doi.org/10.5753/sbseg_estendido.2023.235832

Certifications

AWS Educate Machine Learning Foundations

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Introducing Generative AI with AWS

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Projects

Current Projects

Domestic Robot for Older Adults

Scientific research focused on the development of a service robot designed to support older adults. The robot includes functionalities such as human interaction, weather forecast queries, reminder retrieval, and environment mapping. Key technologies and concepts involved include ROS2, SLAM, Large Language Models (LLMs), agents, LangChain, and language model evaluation.
(2023 – Present)

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Lucas the assistant
Tooth Segmentation

Research and development of a pipeline for tooth segmentation based on a dataset of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images in collaboration with the University of São Paulo (USP). The project involves the use of machine learning algorithms, image processing techniques, and performance evaluation of segmentation models.
(2024 - Present)

Spectrograms classification

Classification of spectrograms using transformer-based models to identify speech disorders associated with malocclusion. This research is conducted in collaboration with the University of Alberta and the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry.
(2025 – Present)

Other Projects

Yapira – Robotics Team

Participated in the Yapira robotics team as the leader of the autonomous line-following robot category. Took part in robotics competitions such as RoboCore Experience. During this period, led the writing of a scientific paper about the robot shown in the figure (“Relâmpago Marquinhos”), which was accepted and presented at the Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE).

Yapira robot
RAG application for question answering

Development of a RAG-based pipeline for answering questions related to various PubMed articles.

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HER2 images classification using ResNet50

Development of a pipeline for classifying HER2 images, a type of image relevant for breast cancer detection. The research leverages ResNet50, fine-tuning techniques, and image preprocessing using Reinhard normalization. The resulting work was accepted for presentation at the SBCAS conference.

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Research on Patient Safety

Research in the field of Patient Safety. Worked on gathering requirements for the development of an application addressing safety culture aspects.

Development of Drug & Disease Database

Participated in the creation of a database interconnecting drugs, pathologies, and related scientific publications.

Blood Donation App

Developed an app that included a social network for donors. Participated in the Garagem UFPR program, exploring business model development.

Digital Board

Collaborated on the creation of a digital board for the Department of Informatics, displaying professor announcements, RU menu, and general communications.

Biomedical Informatics League

Planned an academic league for the Biomedical Informatics course alongside other undergraduates.

Pedro – Telegram Bot

Development of a Telegram chatbot for the Biomedical Informatics course. Main features included classroom lookup, university restaurant menu access, announcements, and general course information.
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Teaching

Recorded Videos

LLM explanation

A brief explanation about Large Language Models (portuguese)

Credits to Professor Paulo Ricardo Lisboa de Almeida for the slides.

Transformers explanation

Understanding Transformers (portuguese)

Credits to Professor Paulo Ricardo Lisboa de Almeida for the slides.

Analysis of Dynamic PD article

Explanation about the article "Analysis of Dynamic PD Control Performance Compared to Standard PD in Track Follower Vehicle" (portuguese).

ALL TOO WELL article explanation

Explanation about the article "ALL TOO WELL: Survey on Robots in RoboCup@Home Brazil" 1:15:00 – 1:39:35 (portuguese).

Other experiences

  • Teaching Assistantship for the course "Graph Algorithms and Optimization". (2023)
  • Lecture on Scientific Article Reading and Analysis. (2025) Check the slides (portuguese).