About Paulo

Paulo Cysne

Author · Speaker · AI & Data Advisor.

My work brings together writing, teaching, and hands-on experience in AI and data. I am based in the Geneva metropolitan area, with more than 15 years in data analytics and experience leading cross-functional teams across finance, banking, trading, retail, healthcare, insurance, and marketing.

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Selected use cases

Experience applied to consequential questions.

Representative applications of Paulo’s expertise across AI, connected data, graph analytics, and machine learning.

Enterprise knowledge assistants

Combine GraphRAG with governed organisational knowledge to create answers that are contextual, grounded, and traceable.

Financial risk intelligence

Connect transactions, counterparties, markets, and ownership structures to reveal risk patterns and support investigation.

Healthcare evidence networks

Link clinical, research, and operational information to improve evidence discovery and patient-pathway understanding.

Supply-chain resilience

Model suppliers, routes, assets, and external events to expose hidden dependencies and assess disruption scenarios.

Explainable decision systems

Blend machine learning, causal reasoning, and connected context so people can understand and challenge recommendations.

Customer and market intelligence

Map journeys, products, content, and communities to sharpen segmentation, recommendation, and commercial insight.

Education

Graduate studies in Data Science

The Johns Hopkins University

MBA in Quantitative Analysis

Heriot-Watt University · Edinburgh Business School

BSc in Physics

Federal University of Ceará

Languages

International by experience and outlook.

Fluent in English, German, French, and Portuguese; professional command of Spanish; basic Italian.

Speaking & teaching

Making advanced ideas accessible.

2025

LLM architectures

PyTorch Conference

2024

Backtesting with correlated data

Oxford Mathematical and Computational Finance Seminar

2025

A beginner’s guide to RAG agents

Professional lecture

Professional experience

A professional story, built across disciplines.

Current work

Principal Consultant — LLMs, AI & Data Science

Independent

Advising organisations on AI strategy, large language models, knowledge graphs, explainable AI, causal AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics.

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Previous roles

Head of Data Science

UST

Led data science capability, teams, roadmaps, and the delivery of advanced analytics initiatives in complex organisational settings.

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Director of Data Analytics

Datacyz

Directed analytics work and multidisciplinary collaboration, connecting technical delivery with measurable business priorities.

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Lead Data Scientist

Finance startup

Led applied data science in finance, combining modelling, domain knowledge, and practical product delivery.

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