Carlos Eduardo Pedreira is Brazilian and obtained his Ph.D. at the Imperial College of Science at the University of London. He is an Electrical Engineer with a specialization in Systems and holds a Master's in Applied Mathematics/Computation. A pioneering scientist in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Brazil, he is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), where he has led the AI area in the Systems and Computing Engineering Program since 2012. He is the inventor of 12 international patents (United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan), all granted, licensed, and in use in more than 50 countries.

He has published numerous scientific articles in the most prestigious international journals, which have accumulated over 5000 citations in other researchers' works. Since 2002, he has collaborated as a visiting researcher at the University of Salamanca (Spain), where he spends approximately three months a year. He holds a C2-level Spanish proficiency certificate issued by the Instituto Cervantes.

Former students he mentored are currently working at prestigious institutions such as the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the SAS Institute in the United States, the University of Tsukuba in Japan, the University of Alcalá in Spain, Sorbonne Université in Paris, and various universities in Brazil. He was the Founding President of the Brazilian Society of Computational Intelligence.

He specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Mathematical Modeling. For his work, he was recognized as a distinguished researcher by CNPq with level "1A" (the highest classification). He holds the scientific distinction "Científico de Nuestro Estado," awarded by FAPERJ. He was awarded the "Santander Science and Innovation Prize" in 2006 and received the "Nicola Albano" Prize, awarded by the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics, as well as the Santander Science and Innovation Prize in 2006.