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PSB 2023 - Raquel Aoki - Precision Medicine - new

Multi-treatment Effect Estimation from Biomedical Data paper was accepted at PSB 2023.

Jan 2023

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Machine Learning Researcher at Borealis AI - Vancouver's Office!

Aug 2022

I was on a series of interviews with alumni students from DCC-UFMG [content in Portuguese]

(link)

Aug 2022 

I participated on a live with Nelson to talk about graduate.

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Jul 2022

My internship project with Google Brain was accepted at the American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC), Berkeley, USA

May 2021

My internship project with Borealis AI was accepted at the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.

May 2021

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Lab Meeting talk on Python - Good Practices. I'm also the new lab manager in the Ester Lab.

Sep 2021

Invited talk at UFOP to share my professional journey with new statistics students.

Jul 2021

My internship project with Borealis AI was accepted at the BIOKDD.

Jun 2021

I'm very excited to be a Research Intern in the Brain team this summer! 

May 2021

Work Life Balance 2021

I gave a talk on work-life balance in Professor Oliver Shulte's lab. 

Feb 2021

Lab Meeting - Feb 05

I gave a talk on Causal Inference in the Ester and Libbrecht joint lab meeting

Feb 2021

My work was accepted at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2021 

Jan 2021

I'm Virtual Logistics Co-Chair of the WiML Workshop 2020 (link

Dec 2020

Depth Exam - Raquel Aoki

I passed my Depth Exam. I'm now a PhD Candidate.

Sep 2020

Very excited to work as Machine Learning Research Intern at Borealis AI!

Sep 2020

I was part of the team who organized the Omics Research Day 2020 (link).

Feb 2010

I attended NeurIPS along my labmates. I was also a super volunteer at the Women in Machine Learning workshop (WiML), co-located with NeurIPS.

Dec 2019


I presented a poster at the 14th Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB) meeting, co-located with NeurIPS.

Dec 2019 

I was Project Mentor in the Bioinformatics team at the IA4ALL 2019 cohort.

Jul 2019

Attending ICML thanks to the Graduate-Undergrad Research Mentorship Award from FAS-SFU. 

Jun 2019

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I presented a workshop about Data Science with my friend Sachini at Try/CATCH.

May 2019

I attended the CRA-W Chicago - USA

Apr 2019

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Invited talk at Girls Exploring STEAM 2019.

Mar 2019

I'm the graduate representative at Women in CS- SFU CLUB and I became one of the organizers at the OMICS group. 

Oct 2018

I was a volunteer at the Grace Hopper Celebration, Houston - USA.

Sep 2018

I was a program mentor at the Invent the Future (AI4ALL - SFU).

Jul 2018


I attended the CRA-W, San Francisco - USA

Apr 2018

I moved to Canada to start my PHD at Simon Fraser University!

Sep 2017

My master's research was published at a newspaper (O Tempo)

Sep 2017

My paper was accepted at KDD17!

Aug 2017

I have defended my master thesis in CS.

Apr 2017

I was hired as Data Scientist at Hekima.

Feb 2017

Poster Presentation at SBBD - Salvador, Brazil    

Oct 2016

Excited to start my masters at UFMG.

Feb 2015

Convocation Day. I'm not a Statistician!

Dec 2014

Poster Presentation at SINAPE - Natal, Brazil.

Jul 2014

Prograd UFMG: my first job as a Statistician Intern.

Oct 2013

Started my undergrad in Statistics at UFMG.

Feb 2011

High School Graduation.

     
Dec 2010