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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Brazil

United States

• Conducted office hours to assist students with Java, C, and Python coding assignments with a weekly 10‐hour commitment.• Led the center in best education practices and awareness, to create a collaborative environment, resulting in an increase of CS studentengagement and tutoring for 600+ students per semester.• Collaborated with faculty to create lectures, exams, and assignment content for 2 courses.• Effectively managed competing priorities proctoring exams and grading assignments every 14 days for 25+ students while maintainingfull‐time graduate course load, successfully returning grades within a week timeframe.

United States

* Designed and implemented an advanced deep hierarchical reinforcement learning model in Python, employing PyTorch, Word2Vec, Pandas, Weights \& Biases, aimed at bypassing state-of-the-art graph‑based intrusion‑detection systems like ThreaTrace and SIGL.* Led a team of 2 people in the implementation of utility tools for the RL pipeline; and delivered weekly progress reports to the principal investigator.* Developed over 15 Bash scripts and 10 SLURM scripts to streamline the pipeline on a HPC cluster, significantly boosting efficiency, reproducibility, and scaling up the number of concurrent experiments.* Conducted feature engineering on small and large system-provenance datasets, selecting optimal features and adjusting them for compatibility with our pipeline, enhancing data accuracy and model performance.* Utilized Scalene to profile program execution, and refactored code to eliminate performance bottlenecks, achieving a runtime reduction of 38%

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

•Supervised the intern on how to build a website for the WFU system security lab using HTML and CSS.• Planned and executed a 6‐week‐long Computer Science Research (Hands‐on) Immersion for a high‐school student from a Title I school in Forsyth County.•Mentored the intern daily, providing feedback, assistance with their tasks, and guidance in the Computer Science lab.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

• Provided customer service to all visitors by answering questions and phone calls, troubleshooting requests, and appropriately directing guests.• Ensured a same‐day response for evaluating tech supply requests from 90% of all student-organized events, leveraging prioritization techniques to address event requirements promptly, and providing seamless technical support for organizers. • Processed the logistics of event requests from all 24 fraternities and sororities associated with WFU.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Graduate Teaching Assistant for Data Structures & Algorithms and Computer Systems I (2022-2024) Graduate.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Affiliated with the UPE Honor Society (2022 - Present) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Computer Science.

Wake Forest University Barcelona: Business & Global Studies, A

Study Abroad in which I have the opportunity of going through a unique experiencing. I learned more about a new culture, being immersed.

High School Diploma, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program

Activities and Societies: Modelo Diplomático de Realengo (MUN), Modelo Interno de Diplomacia do Colégio Pedro II (MUN) Center of Study.