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. He delivered his keynote online at ICAILY 2026, also presented at DataMinitech, and published 18 original press articles in 2026 as of 14 October.

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.

Paperback Hardback Companion site

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. Its launch was celebrated at Livraria da Vila on 9 October 2026.

Editora Dialética

Past speaking and training, 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.

Teacher development

Four AI training sessions at Colégio São Luís

São Paulo, Brazil. September–October 2026.

Training with teachers from early years, primary and secondary education, focused on checking AI responses and deciding how they support a lesson. Teachers need time to learn, support to experiment, professional autonomy and a voice in school decisions about AI.

Writing: 18 original press articles

Published in 2026 as of 14 October. Translations, print editions and republications are listed with their original article. Books, preprints and the podcast are recorded separately.

  1. 9 October 2026Every student needs a minimum AI requirementHEPI · Also indexed by EdCentral, which provides a summary and links to the original HEPI article.
    EdCentral — summary / aggregator
  2. 2 October 2026El ciudadano que no aparece en las estadísticas digitalesLatinoamérica21 · Published in Spanish, English and Portuguese on 2 October 2026. Republished by O Tempo (6 October), Confidencial (9 October) and TalCual (10 October). Translations and republications count as one original article.
    Latinoamérica21 — English · Latinoamérica21 — Português · O Tempo — 6 October · Confidencial — 9 October · TalCual — 10 October
  3. 25 September 2026Political Chatbots Should Not Be Allowed To Set the PaceThe Fulcrum · Also published by Latino News Network on 21 September 2026. A second The Fulcrum page, dated 29 September 2026, presents the same article as “AI Chatbots Set the Pace in Political Persuasion”. These versions count as one original article.
    Latino News Network — 21 September · The Fulcrum — alternate page, 29 September
  4. 16 September 2026Proteger o professor não é proibir que ele seja ajudadoCongresso em Foco
  5. 2 September 2026Verification debt is the hidden cost of enterprise AIThe AI Journal
  6. 30 August 2026The human-review queue is the next digital divideGovInsider
  7. 29 August 2026AI chatbots need to work in all EU languages, not just EnglishEUobserver · Also published by UnionPress as “EU AI rules must guarantee chatbot performance in all official languages”.
    UnionPress — author page
  8. 26 August 2026Sem uma régua comum, cada plataforma escolhe o teste em que passaCongresso em Foco
  9. 26 August 2026A escola ainda faz a pergunta errada sobre inteligência artificialFolha de S.Paulo · Opinião / Tendências-Debates. Print edition 27 August 2026.
  10. 25 August 2026Produtividade da IA na jornada de trabalhoRH Pra Você
  11. 19 August 2026Cinco testes para chatbots eleitorais em 2026Nexo Políticas Públicas
  12. 17 August 2026Regular a IA sem capacidade de avaliação é legislar no escuroCongresso em Foco · Published 17 August 2026, 16:00.
  13. 4 August 2026The cohort arriving in 2027 will not reason like the one in front of you. Are universities ready?HEPI
  14. 22 June 2026Los liceos y la IAEl País
  15. 14 June 2026La decisión sobre IA que los colegios están tomando en silencioLa Prensa
  16. 9 June 2026The question SA schools are not yet asking about AIBusiness Day
  17. 2 June 2026How districts can build a shared AI structureeSchool News
  18. 8 April 2026What I Learned from Training 50 Teachers in AI LiteracyISTE+ASCD / Educational Leadership · Blog published on 8 April 2026. Print version: “I Trained 50 Teachers in AI Literacy”, Educational Leadership, May 2026.

Podcast

Building Teachers’ Trust for AI Adoption · Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud, 2026.

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). New launches are in preparation; details remain under wraps.

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