Awarded the Golden Apple Award by the CSU Alumni Association in September 2025.
Published a paper in BMJ Open (September 2025) on mental health disorders among Brazilian adults with intellectual disabilities.
Filed a patent application with CSU in April 2024; prior work contributed to the 'VEHICLE ASSIST FEATURE CONTROL' patent.
Received Merit Recognition Awards for research in both 2022/2023 and 2023/2024.
Presented research on probabilistic deep learning at the POMS Annual Conference 2023 in Orlando.
Joined the Editorial Board of The Bottom Line (Emerald) in September 2023 and became a Review Editor for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence in July 2023.
Contributed to NASA’s Exominer codebase, publicly released in May 2025 and featured in National Geographic in November 2024.
Research Experience
Developed and implemented machine-learning applications at American Express.
Worked on deep-learning models for exoplanet classification at NASA Ames Research Center in California.
Currently Assistant Professor in the OSM Department at CSU, conducting research on search games, traffic forecasting, and healthcare analytics.
Joined the CSU Senate in September 2024.
Serves as International Co-Lead for Strategic Competition at XXVI SemeAd (organized by USP) in both 2023 and 2024.
Supervised visiting researchers, including Emille Cavalheiro during her 6-month research assignment at CSU in September 2024.