Her doctoral thesis won the national PhD competition for Artificial Intelligence theses (2010-2012).
Research Experience
Post-doctoral research fellow at PESC/COPPE/UFRJ from 2012 to 2013, supervised by Professor Valmir Carneiro Barbosa; currently an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, Federal Fluminense University.
Education
D.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, supervised by Professors Gerson Zaverucha and Vitor Santos Costa; visited Imperial College London's Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory during her PhD, supervised by Professor Stephen Muggleton; M.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from COPPE/UFRJ; B.Sc. in Computer Science from UERJ.
Background
Main research area is (Probabilistic) Logical and Relational Learning, combining Machine Learning with Logical Knowledge Representation. Research topics include Relational Transfer Learning, Automatic Theory Revision from Examples, etc.
Miscellany
Other research interests include Belief Revision, General Game Playing, Computer Vision, Causality, and Programming Languages.