I am a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, ranked as the leading university in Latin America #92 QS World University Ranking. I conduct research within the Safety Analysis Group under the supervision of Prof. Paulo Sérgio Cugnasca and Prof. Alexandre Moreira Nascimento. My work focuses on enhancing the safety and optimization of autonomous systems, with the aim of creating reliable technologies capable of making safe decisions under uncertainty. My long-term goal is to accelerate the adoption of safe and reliable autonomous systems, from robotic manipulators to autonomous vehicles, particularly in robotics and cyber-physical applications, and extend their societal benefits globally.
I obtained my B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, where I graduated among the top 10% of my class. During my undergraduate studies, I developed a robust safety investigation framework for safety-critical systems using autonomous vehicles as a case study, which led to award-winning projects recognized for advancing critical scenario generation and fault injection techniques. My current research builds on this foundation, integrating cutting-edge simulation tools such as CARLA and Scenic with hardware-in-the-loop systems using platforms like Arduino and FPGA to bridge the gap between simulation and real-world applications.
Research Interests
- Trustworthy AI for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems
- Safety, Validation & Verification of AI-Controlled Systems
- Embodied AI & Decision-Making under Uncertainty
- Hardware-in-the-Loop & Sim-to-Real
- Probabilistic Methods for State Estimation & Reliability
Recent News
- [2025] Our latest preprint, “Injecting Hallucinations in Autonomous Vehicles,” is now available on arXiv.
- [2025] Invited by FIESP (Brazil’s largest industrial association) to give a talk on “Generative AI for Automating Economic Analysis.”
- [2025] Gave a guest lecture at the University of São Paulo on “The Challenge of Corner Cases” for the Fault Tolerant Systems (PCS3578).
- [2025] Selected as a fully funded participant for the AI4Industry 2025 Summer School in Saint-Étienne, France.
- [2025] Our new framework, CORTEX-AVD, is now available on arXiv.
- [2024-2025] Awarded the competitive Master’s Data Science C2D Fellowship sponsored by Itaú Unibanco.