Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda

Researcher

Guilherme's career has been shaped by interdisciplinarity. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Control Theory and Digital Systems from EESC-USP (Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), followed by a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from ICMC-USP (Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil). Guilherme has been involved in research since his early undergraduate years, initially working at the intersection of complex systems and machine learning. His doctoral and early postdoctoral work focused on propagation processes in single-layer and multilayer networks. Later, during his postdoctoral fellowship at the ISI Foundation, he became interested in social models in group-structured populations. This interest led him to study hypergraphs, which are now his main area of research. Currently, Guilherme is a researcher at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics (IFGW) at UNICAMP, where he leads the Modeling, Analyzing, and Controlling Higher-order Networks project, which is funded by the FAPESP Young Researcher Grant.

Research focus

Guilherme's research interests lie in nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes on complex networks and structured populations, especially higher-order models.