About

Hello, I am Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University, in New York, USA. I am working with professor Julia Stoyanovich, director of the Center for Responsible AI at Tandon School of Engineering (NYU). Currently, my work focuses on understanding how different components of a Machine Learning pipeline affect the fairness of a model, studying different safety mechanisms for Large Language Models and explainability using Shapley values.

I am also working along with my friend and coworker Andrew Bell on Verita Research.

In 2023/2024, I was an Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA Information Management School, in Lisbon, Portugal. I obtained a PhD in Information Management from this same university in October 2023, during which I worked under the guidance of Professor Fernando Bação on synthetic data generation, focused on Imbalanced Learning and Active Learning, with applications on Land Use/Land Cover classification tasks. My PhD was funded with an MIT Portugal PhD Grant (2020 FCT-MPP2030). During my PhD I also worked as a Research Intern at New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, at the Center for Responsible AI, working on multi-agent Algorithmic Recourse over time.

I also conducted research on Land Use/Land Cover classification methods to automatically update LULC maps of the Portuguese mainland. My work included the development of pipelines to systematize the preprocessing of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery for any given period of time. I also developed and deployed different types of algorithms for various tasks, such as data filtering, dimensionality reduction, feature extraction and classification.

I was a volunteer at DSSG Solve, where I integrated a team of 4 data scientists. Our project focused on leveraging Twitter discourse to characterize narratives and identify unmet needs in response to Cyclone Amphan, which affected 18 million people around the bay of Bengal in May 2020.

My previous work focused on the study of the potential of Big data in tourism management, at NOVA School of Business and Economics. Before that, I completed my Msc in Information Management at NOVA Information Management School. I also completed a Msc in Management at NOVA School of Business and Economics.