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Giordano Cabral
Two-tone engraving: the sky and the waters of the Capibaribe, at low tide.
The arched bridge and the warehouses of Bairro do Recife, seen from the water; a red hull along the waterline.

CIn · UFPE · Recife

Giordano Cabral

Professor at the Center for Informatics, UFPE. Works with agentic artificial intelligence and with strategy in organizations: researches AI adoption at the FAROL Institute, chaired the CESAR Board of Directors (2020–2026), is a board member of ARIES, and provides consulting to companies on AI strategy and adoption.

Wooden metronome without its lid and without the pendulum arm — the bare plate on which the pendulum (drawn separately, in line art) swings.

Marcos7 de 17 instituições · 1994–2002 → 2025–

  • 2025–Instituto FAROL de Fluência Agêntica · cofundador e coordenador, com Filipe Calegário.
  • 2023–2025Stanford · visiting scholar na Graduate School of Education; equipe de projeto do Stanford Impact Labs.
  • 2019–Porto Digital · coordenador pedagógico da Residência Tecnológica; consultor de internacionalização do Núcleo de Gestão.
  • 2015–2026CESAR · vice-presidente (2015–2020) e presidente (2020–2026) do Conselho de Administração.
  • 2003–2017Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris · pesquisa com François Pachet.
  • 2003–2008Sorbonne (LIP6) · doutorado em inteligência artificial, com Jean-Pierre Briot.
  • 2000–D'Accord Music Software · fundador.

A trajetória completa, com os feitos de cada instituição →

01

Agentic AI in organizations2025–

  1. 2026

    Arena das IAs

    At the World Cup, 124 AI models predicted the 104 matches under the rules of an office betting pool, in the same ranking as people: 5,797 predictions. The best human finished ahead of 121 of the 124 models, and the models' errors were correlated, in the same direction.

    Bolão das IAs · The essay

  2. 2026

    China Mission – Pernambuco · CONSECTI delegation to Fuzhou (Fujian), in July, with a governance seminar for Portuguese-speaking countries.

  3. 2026

    Instituto Caldeira · Innovation hub in Porto Alegre, founded in 2019 by 42 companies from Rio Grande do Sul. Technical-scientific council.

  4. 2025–

    Strategy and AI Adoption Consulting

    Consulting for companies and institutions on strategy and transformation through agentic artificial intelligence: B2B software, legal services, circular economy, food, the third sector, industry, and the public sector.

  5. 2025

    Instituto FAROL de Fluência Agêntica

    Criado com Filipe Calegário no CIn/UFPE para medir como organizações e pessoas trabalham com inteligência artificial agêntica. A régua tem seis eixos e cinco níveis; dela derivam o Meu Mapa de IA, aplicado aos estudantes da Residência Tecnológica do Porto Digital em setembro de 2026, o Índice de IA para PMEs, o Observatório de IA do CIn (2.943 respostas em 14/09/2026) e o catálogo Arsenal of Tools.

    farol-ia.org · Arsenal of Tools

  6. 2025

    CES 2025, Las Vegas · As chair of the CESAR Board, presented the Smart Lipstick at CES's Pepcom — a project by the institute that received the People's Choice award at the SXSW Innovation Awards 2025.

02

AI, creativity, and strategy2007–2024

  1. 2023

    CESAR and Generative AI · Texts authored by CESAR on generative AI and the reform of courses in light of it (June and July 2023).

  2. 2019–

    Porto Digital, internacionalização · Consultor de internacionalização do Núcleo de Gestão do Porto Digital desde 2019. Conduz pelo lado brasileiro a cooperação Recife–Nantes, com a ADN Ouest e a Nantes Métropole, e coordena o grupo de desenvolvimento econômico do FICOL 2 (AFD, 2025–2028). Curador da trilha de tecnologia da 4ª edição do Rec'n'Play, em 2022.

  3. 2018

    ARIES · Agência Recife para Inovação e Estratégia: associação para pensar a cidade em prazo longo. Um dos cinco associados fundadores; conselheiro desde 2021. A agência executou o Plano Recife 500 Anos, plano estratégico da cidade até 2037 (2ª edição, Cepe, 2022), e desde 2025 executa a adaptação inclusiva da Macroárea Cajueiro e a gestão delegada, no Recife, do FICOL 2.

  4. 2017

    Brazyle and Flow Machines

    A Brazilian musical style database registered with François Pachet, which Daccord states was used in the Flow Machines project, from Sony CSL, for artificial intelligence in composition. Flow Machines produced the album Hello World (2018); on the album's official credits page, Cabral's name appears in the acknowledgments. Result of the Special Visiting Researcher project (CAPES, 2012–2018) that brought Pachet to CIn, coordinated by Cabral.

    Album credits

  5. 2015–2026

    CESAR, Conselho de Administração · Onze anos no Conselho de Administração do CESAR, instituto privado de inovação fundado em 1996 por professores do CIn e âncora do Porto Digital: vice-presidente de 2015 a 2020, presidente de 2020 a 2026. No período da presidência: a CESAR School, a expansão internacional com o CESAR Europa (Portugal) — de que foi associado como pessoa física —, missões a Nantes, Paris, Aveiro, ao DFKI e ao Fraunhofer, e o Florescendo Talentos, lançado em 2024 com o Governo de Pernambuco, o SENAI e o SENAC para mais de 26 mil estudantes em cerca de 170 escolas estaduais. O Conselho recebeu o certificado Women on Board em 2021; em 2025 o CESAR publicou o primeiro Relatório de Impacto Socioambiental, com mensagem de abertura assinada por Cabral.

  6. 2014

    PsyFun

    Digital games as a research instrument in psychology, from the CNPq Special Visiting Researcher project with Peter Blake, of Boston University. Slingshot Challenge and Star Mines, tested with 162 children aged 6 to 12, proved to be valid instruments for measuring cooperation (Behavior Research Methods, 2021).

    BRM · CHB

  7. 2013

    Invited talk at ISMIR

    "Why Is Brazilian Guitar Interesting?", invited talk at ISMIR 2013, the leading conference on music information retrieval, and at the 14th SBCM.

  8. 2011

    MusTIC

    Grupo de pesquisa e inovação em Música, Tecnologia, Interatividade e Criatividade, criado e coordenado com Geber Ramalho e Filipe Calegário: criatividade computacional e prototipagem de instrumentos digitais. Do grupo saíram Sketchument e Illusio (2013), Batebit (2015), o toolkit com McGill e Inria (IEEE MultiMedia, 2017), trabalho mais citado do currículo, e o TumTá e a Pisada, do doutorado de João Tragtenberg (melhor artigo do 17º SBCM, 2019). Na apresentação do grupo no 17º SBCM (2019), o saldo desde 2010: 4 doutorados, 16 mestrados, mais de 30 graduandos, 4 startups e mais de 50 produtos. Em 2021, com a Moises.ai, o Chord Detection Challenge reuniu 17 equipes de quatro universidades federais.

    Sketchument · Toolkit · SBCM 2019

  9. 2009

    Year of France in Brazil

    Music computing project written with the French side for the Year of France in Brazil: a UFPE × Paris 6 workshop-seminar, at Porto Digital and at IMPA (October 28 and 30, 2009).

    Program

  10. 2007

    MusiGames Studio

    Games unit of D'Accord Music Software, at Porto Digital; 28 people in May 2010. Drums Challenge (App Store, June 2009) closed the month among the five best-selling music games in the United States and led the category on iPad in 2010. Catalog on iPhone, iPad, Android, Nokia, and PlayStation Minis, and games commissioned by Coca-Cola, Mattel, and Rock in Rio.

    musigames.com (2010)

03

Education2010–

  1. 2025

    Stanford Impact Labs and Florescendo Talentos · Team of the project Preparing Brazil's Youth (Stanford Impact Labs, 2025), with Eric Bettinger, which evaluates professional education in Pernambuco's public high schools, linked to Florescendo Talentos, part of TrilhaTec (Government of Pernambuco, CESAR, SENAI, and SENAC): 124 schools at the start, 157 in 2026.

  2. 2023–2024

    Stanford Graduate School of Education · Visiting Scholar at the Lemann Center, at Stanford Graduate School of Education, with a CAPES scholarship; theme: the Porto Digital Technology Residency and innovation in education. From this period, three texts with Jean-Pierre Briot on artificial intelligence in Brazil (ActuIA no. 16, 2024).

  3. 2022–2025

    Alumni CIn · President-director of the CIn/UFPE alumni association, elected on October 14, 2022 for the 2022–2025 term.

  4. 2019–

    Porto Digital: Technology Residency and Digital Onboarding · Pedagogical coordinator of the Technology Residency, redesigned in 2019 into cycles closed by a demo day, with student squads tackling challenges proposed by companies and market mentors; in the first cohort, employability reached nearly 100%. In 2020 the model became public policy with Digital Onboarding (Embarque Digital), scholarships from the Recife City Hall for graduates of public schools: 3,043 entrants and 1,130 graduates by 2026. In the second half of 2025, more than 40 companies and more than 70 mentorships for about 3,700 students in Recife, Aracaju, and Brasília.

  5. 2014

    CIn/UFPE · Associate Professor, in full-time exclusive dedication. Undergraduate and graduate courses in multimedia, criatividade computacional, games, computação musical, product design, and AI-driven prospecting; with Filipe Calegário, Criatividade Computacional (2020–2023), which the CIn portal describes as the first course in the country on the subject. Principal advisor of two doctoral dissertations and 14 master's theses; graduation patron for one class and honored professor for six others, between 2017 and 2025.

  6. 2012

    Turma do Som

    Music education platform for the early grades, with games and an animated series, made at Daccord — the unit that in 2014 became Escribo — for schools without a licensed music teacher: 25 games, with Cecília Cavalieri França. Already used in 2012 in schools in Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo; together with Saiba+ Enem, it won the Northeast stage of the 2012 Finep Innovation Award, and was a finalist for the 2015 Jabuti Award (Livro Infantil Digital). In 2014, the book Nós da Educação — Música (Ática).

    Escribo, "Nossa história"

  7. 2010

    UFRPE · Associate Professor, 2010–2014. Coordinator of the Information Systems program, deputy head of the department, and member of the Teaching, Research, and Extension Council (2012–2013); CNPq productivity fellowship in technological development. Automatic audio classification project for public security (CNPq and FACEPE, 2010–2014).

04

Real-time generative AI1997–2009

  1. 2006–2008

    IMPA · Sandwich doctoral program at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, in Rio de Janeiro. With Sergio Krakowski and Luiz Velho, from IMPA, and with François Pachet and Jean-Pierre Briot, Analytical Features to Extract Harmonic or Rhythmic Information (11th SBCM, 2007); afterward, doctoral committees in Mathematics at the institute (2009 and 2010).

  2. 2003–2008

    Sorbonne, LIP6 · PhD in artificial intelligence at LIP6 (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, today Sorbonne Université), in Jean-Pierre Briot's multi-agent systems team: dissertation Harmonisation automatique en temps réel, defended on July 9, 2008 with the mention très honorable — a system that generates real-time harmonization for an improvised melody (FLAIRS 2006; Ramin, 2008).

  3. 2003–2017

    Sony CSL Paris · Research at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris with François Pachet, doctoral co-advisor: systems that generate real-time accompaniment and automatically discover audio descriptors (EDS, ISMIR 2005). The collaboration continued until 2017 (IJCAI 2015, Brazyle).

  4. 2000

    D'Accord Music Software · Company founded from research at CIn, in Porto Digital: virtual instrument teachers, dictionaries, tuners, and multimedia courses distributed, according to the company, to 116 countries. Softex National Young Entrepreneur Contest (2005), Santander Entrepreneurship Award with iChords (2006), and Finep Innovation Award (Northeast stage) in 2009 and 2012; in 2011, Cabral placed 2nd in INFO magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year award. From it came MusiGames Studio and the venture that became Escribo.

  5. 1999

    Agents that generate accompaniment

    Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science at UFPE, in Geber Ramalho's project on intelligent agents for complex environments: a system that takes a song's chord chart and generates the guitar performance (2002), the basis for D'Accord's first product.

    JIM 2001

  6. 1997

    CITi · CIn's student-run junior enterprise, founded by students in 1997. Director of courses, then president (1998).

Boards, companies and strategygovernance, consulting and founded companies · 2000 → 2026

  • 2015–2026CESAR · Vice President of the Board of Directors (2015–2020) and President (2020–2026). Private nonprofit innovation institute, founded in 1996 in Recife: 136 projects and 95 clients per year and 4,500 students at CESAR School (cesar.org.br, 2026).
  • 2018–ARIES — Agência Recife para Inovação e Estratégia · founding associate, one of five, and board member. Municipal Social Organization that produced the Plano Recife 500 Anos (Recife 500 Years Plan), the city's strategic plan with a horizon to 2037, and is the delegated manager, in Recife, of FICOL 2 under the Recife–Nantes cooperation: €2.21 million through 2028 (AFD).
  • 2026–Instituto Caldeira · technical-scientific council. Porto Alegre innovation hub, founded in 2019 by 42 companies from Rio Grande do Sul; 250 companies in the space and 512 connected in 2024 (Exame).
  • 2024–Recife Municipal Council for Science, Technology and Innovation · alternate council member, representing CESAR. Collegiate body created by Law 18,974/2024 to propose and evaluate the city's innovation policies (City of Recife).
  • currentConsulting in strategy and AI adoption · corporate consultant. Strategy and business intelligence, with artificial intelligence as an element of business transformation (statement by Giordano Cabral, September 27, 2026).
  • 2019–Porto Digital · pedagogical coordinator of the Residência Tecnológica (Technology Residency) and internationalization consultant for the Núcleo de Gestão (Management Unit). Technology park created in 2000 as a state public policy: 541 companies, 24,079 employees and R$7.4 billion in revenue in 2025 (Porto Digital).
  • 2000–Daccord Music Software · founder; partner at Daccord Tecnologia since 2018. Music software company born at CIn/UFPE; products used in 116 countries, according to the company (daccord.com.br); first place in the Finep Innovation Award, Northeast stage, in 2009 and 2012.
  • 2007–2014MusiGames Studio · founder. Daccord's music games unit at Porto Digital; Drums Challenge led the iPad music games category in the United States in 2010 (MacMagazine, April 12, 2010).
  • 2001–2017Escribo — Inovação para o Aprendizado (Innovation for Learning) · co-founder; director of technology and creation (2010). Educational technology; Turma do Som, a music education platform for early grades, was a finalist for the 2015 Jabuti Award (Escribo).
  • 2015 · 2019Board member training · Fundação Dom Cabral (2015) and Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (2019).

Strategy and business, institution by institution →

Institutions and international cooperationFrance, United States, European Union, Canada, Portugal · 2001 → 2025

  • 2003–2008LIP6 — Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), Paris · PhD in Computer Science, with Jean-Pierre Briot; thesis defended in 2008. Computer science laboratory of Sorbonne Université and CNRS, UMR 7606 (lip6.fr).
  • 2003–2017Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris · co-supervision by François Pachet during the PhD (2003–2007) and collaboration through Brazyle (2017). Sony's research laboratory in Europe, from which the Flow Machines project emerged (csl.sony.fr).
  • Time at Spotify CTRL, in Paris.
  • 2007–2010IMPA — Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro · co-authorship with Luiz Velho (SBCM 2007, SIGGRAPH 2010) and PhD examination committees (2009 and 2010).
  • 2012–2014PRAISE — European project under the 7th Framework Programme · advisory board. Tutoring agents in musical communities of practice, coordinated by CSIC (Spain): €3.37 million, €2.3 million from the European Union (CORDIS).
  • 2015–2017McGill University and Inria · co-authorship, with Marcelo Wanderley and Stéphane Huot, of the method and toolkit for digital musical instruments. IEEE MultiMedia, 2017 (DOI), the most cited work in the CV.
  • 2023–2024Lemann Center, Stanford University · Visiting Scholar, with a CAPES fellowship. Center of the Stanford Graduate School of Education created in 2011 for Brazilian education; has hosted close to 200 visiting students and researchers (lemanncenter.stanford.edu).
  • 2025Stanford Impact Labs · team of the Preparing Brazil's Youth project. Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation of vocational education in high school, across more than 130 public schools in Pernambuco (impact.stanford.edu).
  • 2001–2024Brazil–France cooperation · Smart-es project (UFPE and Paris VI, 2001–2004), PhD, examination committees with Briot and Pachet, and writings with Briot (2024).
  • 2019–Recife–Nantes cooperation · internationalization consultant for the Porto Digital Management Unit (Núcleo de Gestão), on the Brazilian side. With ADN Ouest and Nantes Métropole; FICOL 2, funded by the French Development Agency, is carried out in Recife by ARIES, with UFPE, Unicap, Porto Digital and CESAR (Samoa Nantes).
  • 2022–2025CESAR in Portugal · chairman of the Board of Directors during the period. Memorandum with Covilhã (2022), operation in Aveiro (2023) and agreement with CCG/ZGDV of Guimarães (2025), by decision of the board (cesar.org.br).

The biography, by period →

Teachingcourses and semesters · 2015 → 2026

CourseCodeSemestersClasses
Introdução à MultimídiaIF6872015.1 → 2025.2, excluding 2023.2 and 2024.1; two classes in 2020.321
Projetão — Projeto de Sistemas de Informação (Information Systems Project)IF9852016.1 → 2026.2, excluding 2023.2 and 2024.121
Computação MusicalIF754 · IF760 · IN11322015.1, 2016.1, 2016.2, 2017.2, 2018.1, 2019.1, 2020.1, 2020.3, 2021.1, 2021.2, 2022.1, 2025.212
Criatividade ComputacionalIF760 · IF767 · IF8662020.2, 2020.3, 2021.1, 2021.2, 2022.2, 2023.1 (with Filipe Calegário)6
Jogos DigitaisIF793 · CIN00542015.2, 2016.2, 2017.2, 2018.1, 2018.2 (with Geber Ramalho); 2020.26
Concepção de Artefatos DigitaisCIN01312024.2, 2025.1, 2026.1 (with Alex Sandro Gomes)3
Tendências em Mídia e InteraçãoCIN00552026.1, 2026.22
Jogos e Dilemas Sociais (Games and Social Dilemmas)IF7602025.1 (with Guilherme Cabral)1
Sistemas de Gestão Empresarial—2015.21
Estruturas Organizacionais e Planejamento Estratégico (Organizational Structures and Strategic Planning)Professional Master's Program2015 (2014 cohort), 2019.12
ProfLab — Game Design Thinkingshort training course2016, 2018, 2019—

Each course, and what the students made →

Supervisionmost recent · 2010 → 2025

  • 2025Mychelline Souto Cunha [a gender-sensitive approach to teaching computational thinking in primary school; co-supervised by Liliane Sheyla da Silva Fonseca, Unicap]doctorate
  • 2022Eduardo Santos Silva [VioLED: an augmented musical instrument and software as a service to support participation and engagement in music learning]doctorate
  • 2022Flaviano Dias Fontes [Deejai: an open music recommendation platform for groups of streaming users]master's
  • 2022Alessandra Aleluia Alves [AMA: an expert system for adult ballet learning through automated verbal feedback]master's

All supervision, by degree level and year →

Selected publications2001 → 2023

The twenty selected publications, patents, and the full list →

Writinglatest

All writing, with dates →

Contact

Centro de Informática da UFPE, sala C120, Bloco C, 1º andar. grec@cin.ufpe.br · +55 81 2126-8430, extension 4333.