Sandra Avila
Scholar

Sandra Avila

Google Scholar ID: TbM0rGQAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Machine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionNatural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,948
 
H-index
30
 
i10-index
56
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
100
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published papers include: 'Attention over scene graphs: Indoor scene representations toward CSAI classification', 'Clustering discourses: Racial biases in short stories about women generated by large language models', 'Weight weaving: Parameter pooling for data-free model merging', etc.
Research Experience
  • Associate Professor: 2025 - present, University of Campinas, Institute of Computing; Assistant Professor: 2017 - 2025, University of Campinas, Institute of Computing; Postdoctoral Researcher: 2013 - 2017, University of Campinas, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2013, Sorbonne Université (UPMC Paris 6, France) & Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil); M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2008, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil); B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2006, Federal University of Sergipe (UFS, Brazil).
Background
  • Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing for Social Good; Professional Field: Computer Science; Bio: She is an Associate Professor and Research Scientist at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, and a faculty member of recod.ai (Artificial Intelligence Lab) and H.IAAC (Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Architectures Hub).
Miscellany
  • She has supervised multiple Ph.D. students and postdocs and has been involved in several research projects.