Education

• 2019 - 2022: Doctorate degree in Computer Science. University of Tsukuba, Japan, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Department of Computer Science.
• 2017 - 2019: Master’s degree in Computer Science. University of Tsukuba, Japan, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Department of Computer Science.
• 2016 - 2017: Research Student. University of Tsukuba, Japan, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Department of Computer Science.
• 2009 - 2014: Bachelor of Engineering. Amazonas State University, Brazil. Department of Control and Automation Engineering.
• 2012 - 2013: One year undergraduate exchange student. University of California, Berkeley, USA. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
• 2006 - 2008: Technical course in Mechatronics. Fundação Matias Machline (former Fundação Nokia de Ensino).

Grants

• “Towards Objective Science: Automated Detection and Mitigation of Hype in Biomedical Research”, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/科学研究費助成事業（学術研究助成基金助成金）基盤研究(B), Co-PI, ​14,400,000 Yen, 2025.04.01-2029.03.31
• “Context change detection in diary data for mental health care based on the word subspace representation”, Young Researcher Training Program for the Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering (システム情報工学研究科若手研究者育成プログラム), University of Tsukuba, 181,000 Yen, 2020.9.1-2021.3.31

Awards

• Excellent Student Research Paper Award for the paper Framework for Measuring the Similarity of Visual and Semantic Structures in Sign Languages, at the IW-FCV2024.
• Committee Special Award for the paper “Subspace representation for text classification with limited training data”, at the NLP2023, Japan.
• Dean award for research excellence by the University of Tsukuba, 2022, Japan.
• Computer Science Special Award by the University of Tsukuba, for the organization of the 2021 CollaboTICS Workshop, 2022, Japan.
• Computer Science Special Award by the University of Tsukuba, for the organization of the 2020 UGA & UT Workshop, 2021, Japan.
• Best Poster Award for the paper titled “News2meme: An Automatic Content Generator from News Based on Word Subspaces from Text and Image”, at the IAPR MVA 2019, Japan.
• MEXT Scholarship Awarded by the Japanese Government (2016 - 2022).
• National leader assistant of the Brazilian delegation in the Ship for the World Youth Leaders (SWY27) (2015).
• Brazilian Government Science Without Borders Scholarship to study at the University of California in Berkeley, USA (2012-2013).
• Research program PAIC grantee at the Amazonas State University, Brazil (2009-2012).
• FEBRACE (Brazilian Fair of Science and Engineering) award for the second-best project documentation for the project titled JALLE’S, at 7th FEBRACE, 2009, Brazil.
• Bronze medal at the Amazonas Chemistry Olympiad, Brazil (2008).
• Honorable Mention at the Brazilian Physics Olympiad, Brazil (2008).

Invited Talks

• Invited Talk at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-Air) at the University of Tsukuba, 2025.02.27
  Title: Recent Trends on LLM Development.
• Invited Talk at Research Program Benchmarking Visit - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, AIRC, 2024.10.28
  Title: Recent Trends on LLMs.
• Invited Talk at JICA, Jordan: AI Research and Development in Japan, AIRC, 2024.09.12.
  Title: Recent Trends on LLMs.
• Invited Talk at Grandes Temas, an on-line talk series organized by the Academia STEM - UEA, 2023.07.05.
  Title: Academic Career abroad.
• Invited Talk at the Recent Trends in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CollaboTICS 2022), 2022.12.16.
  Title: A Subspace-Based Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Representations in Image-Text Retrieval.
• Invited Talk at Code Talk, an on-line talk series organized by the Centro Acadêmico de Ciência da Computação (Computer Science Academic Center) - FCT/UNESP, 2022.12.22
  Title: Academic Career - From undergrad to grad school.
• Invited to the Round table: Engineering and Sciences of nature (Exact Sciences) at the 2021 Study in Japan Latin America Fair - FIEJ LATAM, 2021.02.25.
• Invited Talk at the following webminars of the 2020 Study in Japan Latin America:
  • The Student Life in Japan, 2020.11.4
  • The Scholarships of Japan, 2020.11.5
• Invited Talk at the Knowledge and Information Research Team, Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), AIST, 2020.09.29.
  Title: Word subspace modeling of text data and its applications.
• Invited Talk at the Rakuten Institute of Technology, 2019.06.28
• Research Talk: News2meme: An Automatic Content Generator from News Based on Word Subspaces from Text and Image \

Academic events organization

• Organization committee member for the 2021 CollaboTICS, a collaborative workshop among the University of Tsukuba (Japan), University of Grenoble-Alpes (France) and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany).
• Program chair for the 2020 UGA & UT Workshop, a collaborative workshop between the University of Tsukuba (Japan) and the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France).