Alvaro Franco Martins

About me

I’m a physicist with a background on complex systems and data science. I currently work as a Data Scientist in the Corporate Security Modelling team at Bradesco, one of the largest private financial institutions in Brazil.

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

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Alvaro Franco Martins

Jul 13, 2026 criminal_networks, organized_crime, artificial_intelligence

CRIMENET: An AI assistant on global organized crime

I rebuilt CRIMENET from the ground up: a knowledge graph of 4,505 criminal organizations and 10,935 relationships extracted from 1,418 Wikipedia articles across four languages, with a GraphRAG AI that answers questions by querying the graph directly. Every claim traces back to a specific Wikipedia source.

Alvaro Franco Martins

Apr 28, 2026 criminal_networks, organized_crime, artificial_intelligence

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.

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