Sidgley Camargo de Andrade

		Sidgley Camargo de Andrade is a Professor (tunured) at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Toledo, Brazil, and Collaborating Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Computer Science at the Western Paraná State University, Brazil. He is a computer scientist with BSc, MSc, and PhD in computer science. He received the PhD degree from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2020. His research is situated within an interdisciplinary problem space that intersects spatial data mining, spatio-temporal data analysis, social media analysis and urban studies.

Last update: Jan 2025

Full curriculum at the CNPq-Lattes platform (in Portuguese) and Short-CV (in English). My PhD dissertation (in English)

Contact

e-mail:
Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR)
Rua Cristo Rei, 19 - Vila Becker
CEP 85902-490 - Toledo,PR
Phone: +55 45 3379-6800

On the Web

On the Media

10/Feb/2020: Radio Integração Toledo (interview given to the radio): https://bit.ly/2OJnxFz

01/Out/2018: News story at Catraca Livre (in portuguese): https://goo.gl/k7WMYj

05/July/2018: Radio CBN Vitória: Interview given to the radio (in portuguese): https://goo.gl/RUzsJX

05/July/2018: Agência FAPESP (in portuguese): https://goo.gl/qaiKzD

02/July/2018: News story at Correio Brasiliense (in portuguese): https://goo.gl/PDb86a / (PDF)

25/Jun/2018: Portal do ICMC (Press office) (in portuguese): https://goo.gl/3Ekgdx

Current Projects

For a complete list of my projects click here.

PI: "Estimation of intra-urban migration flow from ‘User Generated Content’ data sources". UTFPR, May/2021-Apr/2025.

Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships

Advisor of award-winning paper: "OntoMI: an ontology grounded in the Theory of Multiple Intelligences for semantic classification of educational resources", presented at the  9th Workshop on Theses and Dissertations in Ontologies (WTDO 2025) - a satellite event of the 18th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2025).

Coord: "Governança Interinstitucional para Promoção de Pesquisa Aplicada e Inovação no Território do Oeste do Paraná - Brasil". UTFPR, Jul/2022-May/2024. Fund. Fundação Araucária / Novos Arranjos Produtivos de Inovação - NAPI-POD/Oeste (R$ 140K), awarded Jul/2022-May/2024 [grant no. #19.161.893-9].

PhD Fellowship:  FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) for pursuing an internship at University of Warwick, UK, awarded 04/2019 to 06/2019, gant no. #2019/01717-2. Supervisor: Greg McInerny.

PhD Scholarship:  FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) for pursuing a PhD at University of São Paulo, Brazil, awarded 08/2017 to 08/2019, gant no. #2017/15413-0. Supervisor: Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem.

MSc Internship: CAPES/PROCAD for pursuing an internship at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, awarded 07/2011, grant no. PROCAD-NF 191/2007. Supervisor Avelino Francisco Zorzo.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of my publications see DBLP Bibliography Server and Google Scholar.

[1] Sidgley Camargo de Andrade, João Porto de Albuquerque, ..., & Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem (2021). The effect of intra-urban mobility flows on the spatial heterogeneity of social media activity: investigating the response to rainfall events. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2021.1957898

[2] de Andrade, S.C., Restrepo-Estrada, C., ..., & Albuquerque, J.P. de (2020). A multicriteria optimization framework for the definition of the spatial granularity of urban social media analytics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2020.1755039

[3] Camilo Restrepo-Estrada, Sidgley Camargo de Andrade, ..., João Porto de Albuquerque. (2018). Geo-social media as a proxy for hydrometeorological data for streamflow estimation and to improve flood monitoring. Computers & Geosciences. ISSN 0098-3004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.10.010

[4] Hossaki, Vitor Y., ..., Sidgley C. Andrade, and Leonardo B. L. Santos. (2023). "Physical- and Social-Based Rain Gauge — A Case Study on Urban Flood Detection" Geosciences 13, no. 4: 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13040111

[5] Leonildo José de Melo de Azevedo, ..., & Sidgley Camargo de Andrade. (2022). Analysis of Spatially Distributed Data in Internet of Things in the Environmental Context. Sensors. Sensors 22, no. 5: 1693. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051693

[6] de Andrade S.C., Restrepo-Estrada C., Delbem A.C.B., Mendiondo E.M., de Albuquerque J.P. (2017). Mining Rainfall Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Twitter: A Temporal Approach. In: Bregt A., Sarjakoski T., van Lammeren R., Rip F. (eds) Societal Geo-innovation. AGILE 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56759-4_2

[7] de Andrade, S. C.; Degrossi, L. C.; Restrepo-Estrada, C.; Delbem, A. C. B.; de Albuquerque, J. P. (2018). Does Keyword Noise Change Over Space and Time? A Case Study of Social Media Messages. XIX Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics (GEOINFO), pp.116-121. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil.

[8] Speck, J., Andrade, S., & Boscarioli, C. (2025). Aplicações da Teoria das Inteligências Múltiplas em Ambientes Educacionais Digitais: Uma revisão sistemática de literatura. In Anais do XXXVI Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação, (pp. 643-663). Porto Alegre: SBC. https://doi.org/10.5753/sbie.2025.12580

Presentations and Talks

(Sept 2022) Mineração de dados em redes sociais online e aplicações. In: Forum da Pós-Graduação em Computação do Paraná - Seminários Integrados 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYVxL-LA-c

(Out 2020) Mineração de dados em redes sociais online e aplicações. In: Seminários PPGComp - Unioeste-Cascavel shorturl.at/mvGJV (slides)

(Aug 2020) Mineração de dados em redes sociais e aplicações. In: Canal EstaTiDados (live) shorturl.at/rstvD

(July 2020) Mineração de dados em redes sociais e aplicações. In: Tech Talks TSI #2 (live) shorturl.at/ltzIW

(Sept. 2019) Pingos de chuva caem na minha rede: o fenômeno da chuva pode ser representado pela atividade da rede social? In: 5ª Semana Acadêmica de Engenharia e Tecnologia (2 a 6 de Setembro de 2019) - UTFPR-Toledo.

(Apr. 2019) Pingos de chuva caem na minha rede: o fenômeno da chuva pode ser representado pela atividade da rede social? In: Seminários de Computação (BCC) - ICMC-USP.

(Aug. 2018) Pingos de chuva na minha rede: o fenômeno de chuva pode ser representado pela atividade da rede social? In: III SEMCOMP - Semana da Computação da Fatece. Pirassununga.

(Jul. 2018) Raindrops on my net: Can rain phenomenon be represented by the social media activity? In: Ciclo de Palestras do Grupo de Pesquisa em Engenharia de Software – UNIOESTE-Cascavel.

(Mar. 2018) Social media as proxy for natural phenomena: Rainfall monitoring and flood warning. In: UK-Brazil 2018 – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Urban Resilience Data.

(Feb. 2018) Social media as proxy for natural phenomena: Rainfall monitoring and flood warning. In: WWU.USP Workshop on Information Systems. Westfälische Wihelms-Universität Münster.

(2016) Data fusion of volunteered geographic information and hydrological sensors for monitoring and early warning of flash floods. In: Doctoral Colloquium in the 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2016).

(2016) Mining spatiotemporal patterns in Twitter towards the detection of heavy rainfall events. In: First Workshop: UK-Brazil Collaboration on Leveraging Crowdsourced and Sensor Data to Support Decision-Making towards Urban Resilience. University of Warwick.

Tools

For a complete list of my tools see GitHub.

Research Groups

• GPCA - Grupo de Pesquisa em Computação Aplicada (UTFPR)
• LES - Laboratório de Engenharia de Software (UNIOESTE)