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Education

B.S. in Physics, U of Sao Carlos (SP), Brazil, 2005
Ph.D in Applied Physics, U of Michigan (MI), 2015
Postdoc in Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF (CA) 2017
Postdoc in Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, UCSF (CA) 2018

Work experience

2020 - Senior Machine Learning Specialist (UCSF)
- Clinical deployment of computer vision algorithms:
  - Glioma progression detection
  - Breast tumor segmentation
  - Knee anomaly detection
  - Federated learning for COVID prevention
2018 - Data Scientist in Radiology (UCSF)
- Machine Learning applied to neurodegenerative diseases:
  - Network diffusion model of proteins aggregation in the brain
  - Evaluating Alzheimer’s Disease Severity by Spectral Embedding Manifolds
- Code / database management:
  - Matlab -> Python conversion
  - Code development (Git / CI)
  - Server / dataset management
2017 - Experimental Nanotech Designer (UCSF)
- Computational Modeling of DNA
  - Workflows for microscopy image analysis
  - Molecular Dynamics models of DNA folding and assembly
  - Suites for geometrical manipulation and visualization of DNA
- Nanofabrication of DNA origami
  - DNA-origami design and self-assembly
  - TEM (microscopy)

Publications

Federated learning for predicting clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19

Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience

Emergence of canonical functional networks from the structural connectome

Moving beyond the constraints of chemistry via crystal structure discovery with isotropic multiwell pair potentials

Automatic Vertebral Body Segmentation Based on Deep Learning of Dixon Images for Bone Marrow Fat Fraction Quantification

Dynamical Role of Pivotal Brain Regions in Parkinson Symptomatology Uncovered with Deep Learning

Universal folding pathways of polyhedron nets

Unusual multiscale mechanics of biomimetic nanoparticle hydrogels

On the Form and Growth of Complex Crystals: The Case of Tsai-Type Clusters

Non-Close-Packed Three-Dimensional Quasicrystals

Controlling Chirality of Entropic Crystals

Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra

Role of Short-Range Order and Hyperuniformity in the Formation of Band Gaps in Disordered Photonic Materials

Symmetry considerations for the targeted assembly of entropically stabilized colloidal crystals via Voronoi particles

A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects

Computational self-assembly of a one-component icosahedral quasicrystal

Complexity in surfaces of densest packings for families of polyhedra

A directional entropic force approach to assemble anisotropic nanoparticles into superlattices

Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures

Crystalline assemblies and densest packings of a family of truncated tetrahedra and the role of directional entropic forces

Two-dimensional Coulomb solid with interaction anisotropy

Temperature and pinning effects on driving a 2D electron system on a helium film: A numerical study

Pressure-induced structural phase transitions in a two-dimensional system

Análise de um estilingue e espirais de caderno: Um estudo de caso.