Experience

Since September 2022, I work as a Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics, Getulio Vargas Foundation.

  • At FGV, I work as a Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics Department. My research involves spatiotemporal machine learning applied to Agriculture, Climate and Sustainability.

From September 2021 to August 2022, I worked as a Guest Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

  • At TUM, I work as a Guest Professor at the Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation laboratory at the Aerospace and Remote Sensing Department. My research involves machine learning applied to Agriculture, Climate and Sustainability with scarce to no labeling available.

From 2020 to 2021, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

    • At UW-Madison, I work with AI applied to precision agriculture. My research involves multimodal and multitemporal deep learning using different sensors to predict and diagnose plant and animal health issues and productivity in the fields of Agriculture and Livestock.

From 2016 to 2021, I worked as a Research Scientist at the Visual Comprehension Group in IBM Research Brazil.

    • At IBM Research, I work on both core and applied research in computer vision and visual understanding. My research agenda comprises unsupervised and weakly supervised image analysis using multimodal and multitemporal data. In a broad sense, I develop deep learning models that can learn more from less data for complex data-intensive problems. After working with Healthcare, Agriculture, and Oil&Gas projects, my current industry focus is the future of climate and sustainability.

From 2015 to 2016, I worked as a Computer Vision Researcher at GE Global Research Brazil.

    • At GE Global Research, I worked with image analysis applied to GE industries. My activities included image-based computer-aided diagnosis for GE Healthcare, specifically supporting mammographic and computed tomography analysis, visual parts inspection in the context of GE Aviation, and computer vision-based control systems for GE Mining and Transportation industries.

From 2014 to 2015, I worked as a research assistant scholar at the University of Sao Paulo in the NeuroMat project: Mathematics applied to Neuroscience.

From 2013 to 2014, I worked as a researcher at the CPDOC from Getulio Vargas Foundation with NLP and image analysis applied to historical databases.

In 2011, I served as a PhD visiting scholar at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany, working in the Institut für Informationsverarbeitung with Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn.

In 2009, I spent 6 months as a MSc visiting scholar at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, working in the Institute for Systems and Robotics with Prof. Margarida Silveira.

From 2007 to 2013, I was a research assistant at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, working in the Computer Vision lab with Prof. Raul Feitosa.

    • At Puc-Rio, my work consisted of developing new methods for image analysis in remote sensing using semantics. The InterImage project implemented a geographical object image analysis approach for dealing with land cover identification, crop analysis, and deforestation, among others.

Education

I have a Ph.D. in Computer Vision (2009-2013) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, supervised by Professor Raul Feitosa. During my PhD, I spent one year at the Leibniz Hannover University under the supervision of Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn.

I got my Master's in Computer Vision (2007-2009) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro under the supervision of Prof. Raul Feitosa after spending six months in the Instituto Superior Tecnico under the supervision of Prof. Margarida da Silveira.

I got my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ).