Alvaro Franco Martins

Alvaro Franco Martins

About me

I’m a physicist and researcher focusing on complex systems.

Interests
  • Data Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • Network Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Visualization
Education

  • PhD in Physics, 2024

    State University of Maringá

  • MSc in Physics, 2021

    State University of Maringá

  • BSc in Physics, 2019

    State University of Maringá

Featured posts

Aug 22, 2026 criminal_networks, organized_crime, artificial_intelligence
An AI assistant on global organized crime
An AI assistant on global organized crime

A knowledge graph of 4,504 criminal organizations and 10,935 relationships extracted from 1,418 Wikipedia articles across four languages. A GraphRAG AI answers questions about the global organized crime network. Every claim cites a specific Wikipedia source.
May 3, 2022 corruption_networks, criminal_networks
Computational model of political corruption networks
Computational model of political corruption networks

Interact with realistic simulations of corruption networks
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Latest posts

An AI assistant on global organized crime
A knowledge graph of 4,504 criminal organizations and 10,935 relationships extracted from 1,418 Wikipedia articles across four languages. A GraphRAG AI answers questions about the global organized crime network. Every claim cites a specific Wikipedia source.
Aug 22, 2026 criminal_networks, organized_crime, artificial_intelligence
An AI assistant on global organized crime
The global network of organized crime
I built CRIMENET, an open-source network of 1,890 criminal organizations and 3,354 alliances and rivalries between them, extracted from 771 Wikipedia articles with an LLM pipeline.
Apr 28, 2026 criminal_networks, organized_crime, artificial_intelligence
The global network of organized crime
Dendrite: an AI-powered branching recommendation engine
A recommendation engine that grows a tree of connected suggestions
Mar 16, 2026 Artificial Intelligence
Dendrite: an AI-powered branching recommendation engine
Qual é a hora mais perigosa para viajar no Brasil?
Uma análise visual revela dias e horários mais críticos
Dec 14, 2025
Qual é a hora mais perigosa para viajar no Brasil?
Inside Epstein’s Email Web
An interactive visualization of email networks using k-core decomposition to identify core connections, enhanced with AI-powered relationship summaries generated from email content.
Nov 25, 2025
Inside Epstein’s Email Web
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