I am a first year Ph.D. student and a research assistant at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in the Social Computing Research group and the Universität des Saarlandes (UdS). I am advised by Dr. Krishna P. Gummadi and my Ph.D. research focuses on investigating deep neural networks’ representations.

I completed my Master’s degree in Computer Science at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil, with Dr. Soraia Musse (PUCRS) and Dr. Adriano Veloso (UFMG) as my advisors. My Master’s research focused on mitigating biases in facial analysis systems.

During my Master’s I held two research intern positions, one at Google Brain in Warsaw (Poland), and another at MPI-SWS in Saarbrücken (Germany). In the former I worked with computer vision problems, and the latter I worked with robustness to adversarial attacks.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineer at PUCRS, Brazil, in 2020. I received several awards for my academic excellence, including the Engineer of the Year Award (2019) by the Engineering Society of Rio Grande do Sul State (SERGS) and a Student Highlight Award (2019) from the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).

Prior to my Master’s, I was a machine learning engineer at Kunumi. During this period, I worked on machine learning projects related to Intensive Care Units (ICUs), and on the development of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model for a conversational assistant.

My current research interests include data analysis, human perception, machine learning, and deep learning in general.
So far, my work has been published at some of the top venues in computer science, including ICML, AAAI, WACV, and IJCNN.

News

• May 2023: Joined MPI-SWS as a Ph.D. student
• Dec 2022: Joined MPI-SWS as a research assistant
• Jul 2022: Started my second internsthip at MPI-SWS
• Jul 2022: Graduated from my Master’s!