Author, mathematician, AI solutions developer, applied AI researcher

Roney Lima do Nascimento

Generative AI for teachers, built by someone who still teaches.

Roney Lima do Nascimento is the author of Generative AI for Teachers and Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores; a mathematician and PhD candidate in Pure Mathematics at the University of São Paulo (IME-USP); an independent AI solutions developer and consultant, building AI agents for companies and running AI training for schools and organisations; an IB Diploma Programme Mathematics teacher at Colégio São Luís, São Paulo; and an applied AI researcher whose platforms for education reach more than 15,000 educators every month. Keynote speaker at ICAILY 2026 in Cape Town.

Roney Lima do Nascimento

Books

Generative AI for Teachers: A Practical Guide to Educational Technology

Amazon, 2025. Paperback ISBN 9798288673320. Hardback ISBN 9798288900648.

A practical guide for educators who want to use generative artificial intelligence with confidence and rigour: lesson design, assessment integrity, feedback at scale and the judgement calls that no tool makes for you.

Inteligência Artificial Generativa para Professores: um guia prático para tecnologia educacional

Editora Dialética, 2026. ISBN 9786527097686.

The Portuguese-language edition for Brazilian teachers, schools and teacher-education programmes, published by Editora Dialética.

Speaking, 2026

Keynote, IA & Eu track

Summit de Inteligência Artificial do Brasil 2026

Ágora Tech Park, Joinville, Brazil. 18–20 June 2026.

Keynote closing Day 1: IA, Eu e Educação.

Selected writing

  1. 30 Aug 2026The human-review queue is the next digital divideGovInsider, Singapore (guest column)
  2. 29 Aug 2026AI chatbots need to work in all EU languages, not just EnglishEUobserver, Brussels
  3. 26 Aug 2026A escola ainda faz a pergunta errada sobre inteligência artificialFolha de S.Paulo, Opinião (print edition 27 Aug 2026)
  4. 26 Aug 2026Sem uma régua comum, cada plataforma escolhe o teste em que passaCongresso em Foco
  5. 25 Aug 2026Produtividade da IA na jornada de trabalhoRH Pra Você
  6. 19 Aug 2026Cinco testes para chatbots eleitorais em 2026Nexo Políticas Públicas
  7. 17 Aug 2026Regular a IA sem capacidade de avaliação é legislar no escuroCongresso em Foco
  8. 4 Aug 2026The cohort arriving in 2027 will not reason like the one in front of you. Are universities ready?Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), Oxford
  9. Jun 2026Los liceos y la IAEl País, Uruguay
  10. 15 Jun 2026La decisión sobre IA que los colegios están tomando en silencioLa Prensa, Panamá
  11. 9 Jun 2026The question SA schools are not yet asking about AIBusiness Day, South Africa
  12. 2 Jun 2026How districts can build a shared AI structureeSchool News
  13. May 2026I Trained 50 Teachers in AI LiteracyEducational Leadership (ISTE+ASCD), print edition; online as “What I Learned from Training 50 Teachers in AI Literacy”, 8 Apr 2026
  14. 2026Building Teachers’ Trust for AI AdoptionPodcast interview, Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud

Research

Pure mathematics

PhD candidate, IME-USP, 2024–2028. Supervisor: Prof. Raul Antonio Ferraz. CAPES fellow.

Doctoral research on flat ternary cyclotomic polynomials. Qualifying examination passed in August 2026. Earlier work in mathematics education: MSc dissertation on a didactic sequence for fractions in lower secondary school (IME-USP, 2018, DOI 10.11606/D.45.2018.TDE-24042018-124328).

AI in education and AI evaluation

Preprints, chapters and peer review.

Building Mathematical Voice and From Frustration to Fluency, two studies of AI-assisted LaTeX authoring among secondary mathematics students (2026). When Execution Feedback Reveals the Expected Output, a forensic study of answer leakage in agentic code repair (Zenodo, 2026). Carry Absorption, Boundary-Pair Reduction, and Exact Anti-Persistence for the Accelerated Odd Map (Zenodo, 2026). Forthcoming chapter in Global Digital Citizenship (Bloomsbury, 2027).

Peer reviewer for Education and Information Technologies (Springer) and for the International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2026.

Platforms and tools

AI Teachers

Professional hub for educators, used by more than 15,000 educators a month.

Paulean AI

Retrieval-augmented institutional assistant over structured and unstructured school data.

St Paul’s Marker

Automated assessment engine with OCR and formative feedback at batch scale.

HELIX

Cognitive Civilisation Engine, an applied AI research system now at version six.

IB Maths Choice

Guidance tool for choosing between IB Mathematics routes and levels.

Fine-tuned models

Two Mistral-7B LoRA adapters for British English educational prompt optimisation, published on Hugging Face.

Contact

Speaking invitations, press enquiries, school partnerships and research collaboration: roney.nascimento@usp.br. Based in São Paulo, Brazil. Works in Portuguese and English.