Multidisciplinary Science Team
Inside Inter, a leading digital financial platform in Brazil, we focus on quantum computing and AI, partnering with universities and companies.
Inter Science
Applied Research at Inter
We advance the frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Post-Quantum Cryptography to build practical, high-impact solutions for financial services.
Our Mission
Our Driving Principles
Focus on emerging technologies
Advancing and exploring state-of-the-art approaches in areas such as Quantum Computing and AI.
Data-driven approach
Extracting value from the diversity and volume of data collected and stored by Inter.
Business application
Innovating to improve operational efficiency and the company's customer experience.
Research Areas
Our multidimensional approach combines classical rigor with future-facing emerging technologies.
Large language models, evolutionary coding agents, generative AI, and representation learning for large-scale transaction networks.
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models, evolutionary coding agents, generative AI, and representation learning for large-scale transaction networks.
Quantum Computing
Quantum machine learning algorithms, hardware-efficient QAOA, and quantum feature maps for credit scoring and portfolio optimization.
Financial ML
Fraud detection, risk modeling, recommender systems, and anomaly detection at scale across Inter's financial ecosystem.
Scientific Computing
High-performance numerical methods, hardware-accelerated special functions, and accurate mathematical libraries for production systems.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum-safe algorithms for CBDC and DLT infrastructure, including CRYSTALS-Dilithium, Falcon, and SPHINCS+ integrated with Hyperledger Besu.
Recent Publications
Disseminating our findings to the global scientific community.
Hardware Efficient Framework for QAOA
Thiago Assis, Laila Melo, Cristiano Arbex, and Henrique Assumpção, Pedro Vinícius Ferreira Baptista, Rodrigo Chaves, Diego Ferreira, Luan Henrique, Mathias Oliveira and Gabriel Coutinho
In Anais do VIII WECIQ|WCQ: Workshop-Escola de Computação e Informação Quântica, 2026
Research supported by Inter Science – Inter
Quantum Foundations for a Large Class of Graphs
Thiago Assis and Gabriel Coutinho
In Anais do VIII WECIQ|WCQ: Workshop-Escola de Computação e Informação Quântica, 2026
Research supported by Inter Science – Inter
Generative QAOA and its Application to Portfolio Optimization
Luan Costa and Gabriel Coutinho
In Anais do VIII WECIQ|WCQ: Workshop-Escola de Computação e Informação Quântica, 2026
Research supported by Inter Science – Inter
CodeEvolve: an open source evolutionary coding agent for algorithmic discovery and optimization
Henrique Assumpção, Diego Ferreira, Leandro Campos and Fabricio Murai
arXiv preprint, 2025
Applying Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms to a DLT-Based CBDC Infrastructure: Comparative and Feasibility Analysis
Daniel Haro Moraes, João Paulo Aragão Pereira, Bruno Estolano Grossi, and Gustavo Mirapalheta, George Marcel Monteiro Arcuri Smetana, Wesley Rodrigues, Courtnay Nery Guimarães Jr., Bruno Domingues, Fábio Saito and Marcos Simplicio
Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024
DELATOR: Money Laundering Detection via Multi-Task Learning on Large Transaction Graphs
Henrique S. Assumpção, Fabrício Souza, Leandro Lacerda Campos, and Vinícius T. de Castro Pires, Paulo M. Laurentys Almeida and Fabricio Murai
In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2022
Our Team
Get to know the people who make it all possible.
Bruno Grossi
Chief Researcher
Executive Manager of Emerging Technologies & Digital Assets at Inter, with 25+ years driving innovation in finance, blockchain, DeFi, and quantum-safe systems. Holds an MSc from UFMG.
Diego Ferreira
Senior Research Specialist
PhD in Physics from UFMG, specializing in Quantum Computing for financial applications such as fraud detection and portfolio optimization.
Guilherme Ferreira
Research Engineer
Computer Engineer (UFOP) working on applied research for agentic payments, bridging LLM-based systems and backend software engineering at Inter Science.
Henrique Assumpção
Machine Learning Research Scientist
MSc in Computer Science from UFMG. Leads the end-to-end lifecycle of large foundation models for financial applications at Inter Science and is the creator of CodeEvolve, an open-source agentic coding framework.
Leandro Campos
Senior Research Specialist
Senior Research Specialist at Inter Science, working at the intersection of high-performance computing, numerical software, and AI research.
Bruno Grossi
Chief Researcher
Executive Manager of Emerging Technologies & Digital Assets at Inter, with 25+ years driving innovation in finance, blockchain, DeFi, and quantum-safe systems. Holds an MSc from UFMG.
Diego Ferreira
Senior Research Specialist
PhD in Physics from UFMG, specializing in Quantum Computing for financial applications such as fraud detection and portfolio optimization.
Guilherme Ferreira
Research Engineer
Computer Engineer (UFOP) working on applied research for agentic payments, bridging LLM-based systems and backend software engineering at Inter Science.
Henrique Assumpção
Machine Learning Research Scientist
MSc in Computer Science from UFMG. Leads the end-to-end lifecycle of large foundation models for financial applications at Inter Science and is the creator of CodeEvolve, an open-source agentic coding framework.
Leandro Campos
Senior Research Specialist
Senior Research Specialist at Inter Science, working at the intersection of high-performance computing, numerical software, and AI research.
News
FEATURED · MAR 24, 2026
Inter Science officially launched
NeoFeed covered the story: Inter is opening an advanced research hub focused on Quantum Computing, AI, and Blockchain, with partnerships with UFMG, Oxford Quantum Computing, and AWS.
Read the full articleSEP 4, 2026
CodeEvolve accepted at EMNLP, Budapest
Our paper on CodeEvolve was accepted for presentation at EMNLP in Budapest.
MAY 27, 2026
Inter Science Talks 2026
On Wednesday, May 27, we hosted Inter Science Talks 2026 in Belo Horizonte — a full day on AI and quantum computing for fintech, with UFMG partners and the Inter Science team.
DEC 2025
New paper on explainable AI accepted for NeurIPS 2025
Our team will present work on explainable AI at NeurIPS 2025.
OCT 15, 2025
We released CodeEvolve
An open-source evolutionary coding agent that combines LLMs with evolutionary search to discover high-performing algorithms.
Contact
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Open Positions
We are always looking for talented researchers and engineers passionate about AI, Quantum Computing, and financial technology. If you are interested in joining our team, reach out at science@inter.co.
Contact usCollaborations
We actively engage with universities, research labs, and the open-source community. If you have a research idea that aligns with our areas of focus, we would love to hear from you.
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