Resume

Education

2013-2019: Ph.D. in Telecommunications at INRS-EMT (Montréal, QC, Canada)

• PhD Thesis Title: Applications of Deep Learning to Speech Enhancement

2012-2013: M. Sc. in Telecommunications at INRS-EMT (Montréal, QC, Canada)

• MSc Thesis Title: A non-intrusive objective speech intelligibility metric tailored for cochlear implant users in complex listening environments

2005-2011: Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)

• Undergraduate senior year thesis: A reconfigurable parallel architecture for baseband processing in software-defined radios.

Experience

August 2019-Present: AI Research Scientist at NVIDIA (remote)

• Research Topic: Conversational AI (speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing).

Summer 2016: Signal Processing Research Intern at Starkey Hearing Technologies (Eden Prairie, MN, USA)

• Research Topic: Deep neural networks applied to speech enhancement.

2014-2018: Visiting Student at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms - Université de Montréal (Montréal, QC, Canada)

• Research Topic: Deep neural networks applied to speech synthesis and enhancement.

2012-2019: Graduate Researcher at MuSAE Lab - INRS (Montréal, QC, Canada)

• Research Topic: Quality-aware speech dereverberation and denoising.

2011-2012: Research & Development Engineer at Acústica Amplivox Ltda (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)

• Research Topic: Hearing aid design (algorithms and architecture).

2010: Undergraduate Researcher at Software/Hardware Integration Laboratory - UFSC (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)

• Research Topic: An embedded platform for Software-Defined Radio (eSDR).

2007-2009: Undergraduate research intern at Acústica Amplivox Ltda (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)

• Research Topic: Development of a configuration system for hearing aid devices.

2006 - 2007: Undergraduate Researcher at Automation and Systems Department - UFSC (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)

• Research Topic: Exploiting tuple spaces to provide fault-tolerant scheduling on computational grids.

Awards and honors

• Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students: Quebec-Brazil doctoral research scholarship (2014)
• Bourse d'Excellence du Recteur de l'INRS (2014)
• INRS-EMT Best Master's thesis (2014)
• Tableau d'honneur du vice-recteur à la recherche et aux affaires académiques: awarded for receiving the "Exceptional" grade for my MSc thesis (2014)
• InterSpeech Student Travel Grant (2012)