Adelson D. de Araujo Jr., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Metrópole Digital at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He obtained his PhD in Instructional Technology from the University of Twente (2024), where he created Clair, a collaborative conversational agent that received the Catalyst Award of the Learning Agency Tools Competition 2024. Previously, Adelson discovered the Master’s degree in Systems and Computing at UFRN (2019). During that period, they developed crime prediction models for the IMD SmartMetropolis project, where he twice won the Google Latin America Research Awards in 2018 and 2019. He currently teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Machine Learning Operations.
