Short-bio

I'm a Serra Húnter Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at University of Barcelona (UB) and a research collaborator within Computer Vision Center (CVC). Previouly, I worked as an adjunct professor and assistant researcher at UB (2022-2023), and before that, as a postdoctoral researcher at CVC (2021-2022), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (2017-2020), and UB (2016-2017). I am a member of the HuPBA group, and a research collaborator within ChaLearn and ChaLearn Looking at People. From the past few years I have been working as part of the organizing team of Workshops and Challenges, organized at high impact conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. During this journey, I had the opportunity to supervise students, collaborate with people and research groups of different institutions, strengthening my network.

Before moving to Spain in 2016, I collaborated in different research projects at PUC-RS/Brazil as a postdoctoral researcher (2013-2016) supported by funding agencies of the Brazilian Government (CNPq, FAPERGS/CAPES). On that time, I also worked as a substitute lecturer at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) at different periods (2009-2010, 2013), and as guest lecturer at PUC-RS (2012-2015). 

Going back in time a bit more, I received my MS degree in Applied Computing (UNISINOS/2006, Brazil) and my PhD degree in Computer Science (PUCRS/2012, Brazil) under the supervision of Dr. Soraia Musse and co-supervision of Dr. Cláudio Jung (both studies supported by HP R&D Brazil). As a result, my PhD Thesis was awarded in 2011 by the IBM PhD Fellowship Awards Program, which is an intensely competitive worldwide program.