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Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience​

Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Hurb
March 2024 – Present

  • Directing Hurb’s experimentation program, fostering an experimentation culture, and leading the platform’s development and deployment.

Research and Development Engineer
Loon Factory
Dec 2021 – March 2024 (2 yrs 4 mos)

  • Founding member of Loon Factory, a R&D lab focused on high-impact societal issues. Led the Libert project, employing Large Language Models to predict civil lawsuit outcomes with 83% accuracy (in production).
  • Managed end-to-end machine learning model development, from data handling to deployment and monitoring, and led a 5-member team.

Research and Development Engineer (Internship)
TechnipFMC
May 2021 – Oct 2021 (7 mos)

  • Designed PCBs for an underwater robotic manipulator, ensuring power and signal continuity for joint motor control, safeguarding electronic subsystem integrity.

Data Scientist (Internship)
Murabei Data Science
Oct 2020 – April 2021 (7 mos)

  • Designed and trained linear models for SME credit analysis, leveraging diverse economic and sociodemographic data.

Education​

M.Sc. in Computing Science
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
September 2024 – Present
Advisor: Marlos C. Machado

B.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Engineering
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thesis: Applying Vision Transformer for Pathology Classification in X-Ray Images
Advisor: Natanael Nunes de Moura Junior

Research Experience​

Undergraduate Researcher
Signal Processing Lab
Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 (1 yr 5 mos)

  • Developed a Computer-Aided Diagnosis system for tuberculosis from chest X-ray images.
  • Developed a Hierarchical Mixture of Experts using SVM models. Significantly improved image quality assessment for Brazil’s public health X-ray film digitization, achieving 86% accuracy.

Undergraduate Researcher
Control and Automation Lab
Mar 2018 – Jun 2019 (1 yr 4 mos)

  • Designed electronic systems for a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for underwater exploration.
  • Prototyped PCBs for subsea use with Altium Designer, optimizing underwater thruster controls, cameras, and sensors for precision and reliability.
  • Developed C++ routines for ROV communication and control, enabling SPI data interfacing between AVR microcontrollers to allow vehicle coordination.

Teaching Experience​

Robotics Instructor
TRON - Ensino de Robótica Educativa
May 2018 – Aug 2018 (3 mos)

  • Conducted a robotics workshop for 9-10-year-olds, teaching basics of electricity, electronics, and Arduino programming.

Extracurricular Activities​

MinervaBots - Robotics Team
April 2017 – Jan 2020 (2 yrs 9 mos)

  • Steered the team to win 17 trophies in 6 categories over three years.
  • Secured second place among American teams in the autonomous category at the 2019 All Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament world finals in Tokyo, reaching pre-quarterfinals.
  • Led a 6-person cross-functional team in developing an autonomous sumo robot.
  • Coordinated and ensured technical readiness of 12 robots for competitions.

Presentations​

11th Academic Integration Week:
Support Vector Machine (SVM) to Support Tuberculosis Screening

Certificates​

Climate Change AI Summer School 2023
Climate Change AI, Sep 2023

Deep Learning Specialization
Coursera - DeepLearning.AI, Jan 2023

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization
Coursera - DeepLearning.AI, Nov 2021

Machine Learning for Trading Specialization
Coursera - Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance, Sep 2021

End-to-End Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud
Coursera - Google Cloud, Sep 2021

Introduction to Data Science in Python
Coursera - University of Michigan, June 2019

Machine Learning Specialization
Coursera - DeepLearning.AI, Feb 2019