About me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University. My research insterests are in computational linguistics, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science. Before joining Villanova, I was a post-doc research associate at the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) hosted by professor Tomek Strzalkowski. I received my PhD degree from RPI, advised by professor Sibel Adalı.


Education

Ph. D. in Computer Science - 2022 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - USA

M. Sc. in Computer Science - 2016 - Federal University of Viçosa - Brazil

B. Sc. in Computer Science - 2014 - Federal University of Viçosa - Brazil

Research experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[Feb 2023 - Jul 2023]
Graduate Research Intern IBM Research[May 2022 - Aug 2022]
Graduate Research Assistant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[Sep 2021 - Jan 2022]
Graduate Research Assistant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[Sep 2019 - Aug 2021]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Hanze Institute of Technology[Feb 2012 - Feb 2013]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Federal University of Viçosa[Jan 2011 - Jan 2012]

Teaching experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[Jan 2022 - Dec 2022]
Graduate Teaching Assistant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[Sep 2017 - May 2019]
Lecturer Federal University of Viçosa[May 2015 - May 2017]
Graduate Teaching Assistant Federal University of Viçosa[Mar 2014 - Dec 2014]

Software development

Front-end Developer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[May 2019 - Aug 2019]
Front-end Developer Federal University of Viçosa[May 2014 - May 2015]

Reviewer/PC Member

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language (Journal)

Information Processing & Management (Journal)

ICWSM 2022 (Conference)

LChange'21, LChange'22, LChange'23 (Workshop)

SemEval 2022 (Workshop)

Mediate 2023 (Workshop)

Scientific Reports (Journal)