CV

A short version is below; the full CV is available as a PDF.

Education

  • University of Cambridge — PhD in Computer Science, 2019–2023. Advisors: Simone Teufel & Ryan Cotterell. Gates Cambridge Scholar; Facebook Fellow.
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) — MSc in Computer Science, 2016–2018. Advisors: Adriano Veloso & Nivio Ziviani.
  • Universidade de Brasília (UnB) — BE in Mechatronics Engineering, 2009–2014. Advisor: Carla Koike. Valedictorian (highest GPA in class).
  • Washington University in St. Louis — Non-degree in Computer Science, 2012–2013. Brazil Scientific Mobility Program scholar.

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich — 2023–present. Machine learning interpretability and natural language processing.
  • Research Intern, Google — 2022. How metaphors are encoded in language models.
  • Research Intern, Google — 2021. Upside-down reinforcement learning for recommendation systems.
  • Data Scientist, Kunumi — 2018–2019. Active anomaly detection; conversational agents; led deep-learning & NLP reading groups.
  • Adjunct Lecturer, IESB — 2018–2019. Taught Unsupervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning (AI postgraduate specialisation).
  • Voluntary Teacher, EduBot — 2014–2015. Taught computer science and robotics to high-school students from under-resourced public schools.

Awards & honours

  • Spotlight — NeurIPS 2025 (The Non-Linear Representation Dilemma)
  • Senior area chair highlights award — ACL 2025 (Tokenisation is NP-Complete)
  • Senior area chair highlights award — ACL 2025 (Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology)
  • Best paper award — ACL 2024 (Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles)
  • Outstanding paper award — EMNLP 2023 (Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths)
  • Outstanding paper award — EMNLP 2023 (Language Model Quality Correlates with Psychometric Predictive Power in Multiple Languages)
  • Best area chair award — EMNLP 2023
  • Spotlight, top 25% — ICLR 2023 (On the Usefulness of Embeddings, Clusters and Strings for Text Generation Evaluation)
  • Best paper nomination — ACL 2019 (Meaning to Form)
  • Facebook (Meta) PhD Fellowship — 2021–2023
  • Gates Cambridge Scholarship — 2019–2023
  • Valedictorian — Universidade de Brasília (highest GPA in class)
  • Brazil Scientific Mobility Program Scholarship — 2012

Publications

See the full list of publications.