Experience

Lead AI Engineer

Play Intelligence, The LEGO Group

January 2019 – Present

Lead AI projects, and R&D of Machine Learning methods for digital products (e.g., DUPLO Train, VIDIYO, and Hidden Side).

Accredited Researcher

Institute of Computing, Unicamp

March 2019 – Present

Research on Biometrics and Forensic science, and co-supervision of Ph.D. candidates.

Co-founder & Chief Scientist

SciPet

January 2016 – October 2025

Coordination of research projects and research on applied machine learning methods for animal biometrics (e.g., CrowdPet).

Postdoctoral Researcher

Unicamp & Motorola

January 2015 – December 2018

R&D of biometric methods for mobile devices.

“BioLive: Multi-feature and open-set authentication techniques for mobile devices”;
“BioLive-360: open-set face recognition in 360° images”.

Lecturer

Institute of Computing, Unicamp

March 2017 – July 2017

Teaching “Algorithms and Computer Programming”.

Researcher

Samsung Research Institute Brazil

January 2014 – December 2015

R&D of methods to generate highly compressible videos for computer vision tasks.

Postdoctoral Researcher

VISGRAF/IMPA

January 2012 – December 2014

Research on texture synthesis for 3D surfaces.

Lecturer

IESB

January 2012 – December 2012

Teaching “Programming Logic” and “Topics in Computer Science: Image Processing”.

Teaching Assistant

Institute of Computing, Unicamp

August 2005 – June 2009

Teaching “Data Structures” and “Algorithms and Computer Programming”.

Undergraduate researcher and System analyst

UnB

February 2003 – May 2003

Research on 3D interfaces for controlling robots over the Internet;
Development of a system for remote art education.

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science

Institute of Computing, Unicamp

March 2007 – November 2012

My thesis “Computer Vision methods applicable to Forensic Science” presents three Computer Vision methods that can be applied in forensic investigations: one for photogrammetry, which allows measurement of objects heights in single images; a multiview stereo framework for the recovery of 3D footwear impressions; and a method for image reconstruction from a collection of small unordered fragments using a quadratic programming formulation.

Supervisor: Siome Goldenstein

Thesis (in Portuguese)

Visiting Ph.D. Research Fellow

School of Engineering, Brown University

December 2010 – December 2011

Internship as part of my Ph.D. studies.

Supervisor: Prof. Gabriel Taubin

M.Sc. Computer Science

Institute of Computing, Unicamp

March 2005 – March 2007

My dissertation “Image descriptors based on Tensor Scale” presents shape descriptors based on the Tensor Scale morphometric parameter for content-based image retrieval. We also introduce efficient algorithms for the computation of Tensor Scale based on the Image Foresting Transform (IFT).

Supervisor: Prof. Ricardo da S. Torres
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Alexandre X. Falcão

Dissertation (in Portuguese)