Published Ph.D. thesis titled 'Augmenting the dark: exploring assistive micro-guidance in sonified mixed reality'; Published M.Sc. thesis titled 'Augmenting analytics: use case studies of situated data visualization towards decision-making'; Received ATN-Latin American PhD Scholarship, CNPq Scholarship, and Linnaeus-Palme Scholarship.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (June 2024 – Present), involved in SMART Pharmaceutical Industry project, also serving as Lecturer and MSc theses supervisor; Teaching and Research Sessional at RMIT University (October 2020 – May 2024), involved in Next-Generation Augmented Training Systems project and Plastics New Zealand EcoVis project, also serving as Teaching Assistant and Honours thesis supervisor; Research Assistant at Halmstad University (December 2019 – May 2020), involved in Electromagnetic Compatibility SitVis project; Research Assistant at UFRGS (September 2016 – December 2019), involved in Situated AR Data Visualization project and Physics teaching in AR project, also serving as Teaching Assistant and IT tutor; Research Assistant at Illinois Tech (May 2016 – August 2016), involved in Multithreading Montecarlo project; iOS developer intern at PUCRS (January 2015 – June 2015); Research Assistant at IFRS (September 2013 – December 2014), involved in Education DataVis project, also serving as Lab Tutor.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from RMIT University (October 2020 - April 2024), advisors: Prof. Fabio Zambetta, Prof. Deb Polson, and Dr. Ron van Schyndel; M.Sc. in Computer Science from UFRGS (March 2019 - July 2020), advisor: Prof. Anderson Maciel; B.Sc. in Computer Science from UFRGS (August 2013 - December 2018), advisor: Prof. Anderson Maciel; Sandwich period during B.Sc. at Radford University (August 2015 - May 2016); IT diploma from IFRS (March 2013 - December 2014).
Background
Postdoctoral Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction and Augmented Reality at KTH - Sweden, currently working with data visualization in AR/VR for a pharmaceutical manufacturing scenario, partnered with AstraZeneca. Obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at RMIT - Australia, working with sonified augmented reality; and his M.Sc. in Computer Science at UFRGS - Brazil, working with situated data visualization. Taught courses in HCI, AI, Mixed Reality, and game and web development, at KTH, RMIT, and UFRGS. Worked in several HCI-related projects in AR/VR, including audio AR interfaces for visually impaired people, at RMIT, situated visualization of electromagnetic fields at Halmstad University - Sweden, and an AR-based platform for the teaching of physics, at UFRGS.
Miscellany
Interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality, and Data Visualization.