Marcelo Finger has a BSc in Electronic Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (EP-USP 1988), an MSc in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1990), and a PhD in Computing from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London (1994).

He has held visiting positions in the computer science departments at Universitée Paul Sabatier--Toulouse (2011) and Cornell University (2012-2013). He is currently a professor of computer science at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo.

He is part of the editorial board of the South American Journal of Logic and São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences, and has been a guest editor for Theoretical Computer Science and Annals of Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence. In addition, he has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2013. He is an expert in logic and deductive-probabilistic reasoning, and his research focuses on logic, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and computational linguistics.