I am a Brazilian master’s student in Electronic and Information Engineering at Tsinghua University, supported by a full Chinese Government Scholarship.
I want to use technology to make people’s lives easier, and I see sensing as a great opportunity to do that. I am interested in how different kinds of sensors capture the world, what each one can and cannot see, and how each of them perceives people and the environment in its own way. My current research is on multimodal wireless sensing, using everyday signals such as Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) and visible light to recognize human activity and detect falls indoors, without cameras or wearables. I built a synchronized visible-light + Wi-Fi testbed and study when the two modalities complement each other, together with a Bayesian fusion that stays robust when one of them is degraded.
Although my background is in computer science, I have always been drawn to the physical side of systems: building setups, running experiments and understanding how hardware actually behaves. Before graduate school, I spent five years at Stone (NASDAQ: STNE), where I led the integration of Android payment hardware, bringing nine point-of-sale devices into production and working closely with manufacturers such as Ingenico, Sunmi and Positivo on embedded and IoT integration. I hold a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.