Awards
Honors
December 2025
3rd place in the Simulation
Challenge at the IEEE
Winter Simulation Conference 2025 ($1,000 cash prize).
Certificate
Results
November 2025
1st place in the Brazilian
Ministry of Defense Doctoral Award 2025, recognizing the best Ph.D.
thesis
in the country
in defense science and technology (R$4,000 cash prize).
Certificate
June 2025
DAC Young Fellow for the Design
Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.
Certificate
December 2024
WSC Diversity Award at the IEEE Winter Simulation Conference
2024 in Orlando, United States.
Certificate
Results
December 2024
Runner-up Best Poster Award at the LACORO
Summer School on Robotics 2024 in Chile.
Certificate
Results
November 2024
2nd place in the Performance Review
Commission (PRC) Data Challenge 2024 for developing an
open Machine Learning
model to infer flight Actual TakeOff Weight (ATOW).
Results
October 2023
3rd place in the Data
Science Challenge 2023 for predicting the Estimated Landing Time (ELDT)
of flights.
Results
June 2023
Best PhD Colloquium Award
at the Conference on Principles of
Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS) 2023.
Certificate
October 2021
3rd place in the 5th
Brazilian
Competition on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD-BR) for
predicting solutions of the Travelling Salesman Problem (R$200 cash prize).
Results
October 2021
Military Bronze Medal, awarded by the Brazilian Air Force.
Certificate
October 2019
6th place in the 3rd
Brazilian Competition on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD-BR) 2019
(39 competitors) for predicting flight delays for a Brazilian airline.
Results
December 2019
Ambassador Award of Excellence 2019, International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC).
Certificate
May 2019
4th place in the Data
Science
Challenge at Engineering Education for the Future (EEF) 2019 for
predicting real estate prices in Brazil using
regression models.
Results
October 2016
Prolider Program Fellow 2016, selected by Instituto Four to participate in Prolider (29 recipients out of 2,013
applicants).
Certificate
December 2015
Honorable Mention in the Department of Humanities, Aeronautics Institute of Technology.
Certificate
December 2014
Military Merit Award, Brazilian
Air Force (top 25% behavioral
grades).
November 2011
1st place overall in the Brazilian
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
(CPORAER-SJ) 2011 (120 candidates).
Certificate
December 2010
ITA Entrance Exam Approval in 2010, joining the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (120 admitted students
out of 7,627 applicants) in one of Brazil's most competitive entrance exams.
Certificate
January 2009
Academic Merit Award, Brazilian
Air Force (top 25% military
grades).
October 2007
Bronze Medal in the 10th
Brazilian
Olympiad of Astronomy and Astronautics (OBA) (187,726
competitors).
Certificate
December 2006
Honorable Mention in the XIV Ceara Science Olympiad — Biology
(OCC),
organized by the Federal University of Ceara (UFC).
Certificate
December 2006
Gold Medal in the Internal Science Olympiads 2006 (Math, Physics,
Biology), Farias Brito High
School.
Certificate
November 2003
Honor to Merit (2nd place three times, 5th place one time) in the
Internal
Mathematics Olympiad 2003, Christus
Middle
School.
Certificate
October 2003
2nd place in the 3rd Christus Exhibition of Science and Technology
(EXCETEC), category "Exact, Social and Commercial Sciences".
Certificate
Grants & Scholarships
December 2025
Travel Grant ($1,000) to attend the IEEE Winter Simulation Conference
2025 in Seattle, United States.
June 2025
Travel Grant (€2,900), CISB Call 15/2025, from the Swedish‑Brazilian Research and Innovation Centre to
support research at the 2025 Swedish Aerospace Congress.
Results
December 2024
Travel Grant ($1,000) to attend the IEEE Winter Simulation Conference
2024 in Orlando, United States.
December 2024
Travel Grant ($500) to attend the LACORO
Summer School on Robotics 2024 in Chile.
May 2024
Travel Grant ($3,000) to attend the UNODA-SIPRI Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace
and Security in Brussels, Belgium.
Certificate
May 2024
Travel Grant (€3,150), CISB Call 13/2024, from the Swedish‑Brazilian Research and Innovation Centre to
participate in the WARA‑PS Demonstration
Week 2024.
Results
June 2024
Travel Grant ($1,000) to attend the 2024 Conference on Principles of Advanced
Discrete Simulation (PADS).
June 2023
Travel Grant (€3,200), CISB Call 10/2022, from the Swedish‑Brazilian Research and Innovation Centre to
participate in an AI researchers delegation in Sweden.
Results
June 2023
Travel Grant ($1,000) to attend the Conference on Principles of Advanced
Discrete Simulation (PADS) 2023 in Orlando, United States.
Certificate
April 2023
Travel Grant ($2,500) to attend Brazil at Silicon Valley 2023 in
Santa Clara, United States.
June 2022
Merit Scholarship, Fundacão Estudar, awarded
for outstanding trajectory and academic potential (30 recipients out of 33,876 applicants).
August 2014 — May 2015
Full Scholarship (≈$75,000) from Brazil's Ministry of Education for a
one-year study program at Stony Brook University, College of Engineering.
Certificate
August 2012 — July 2013
Undergraduate Research Fellowship,
CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnológico), for the
Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation Scholarships (PIBIC) at the
Aeronautics Institute of Technology, for the
project "Automatic Data Acquisition in Plasma Tunnel Tests".
Certificate
August 2011 — July 2012
Undergraduate Research Fellowship,
CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnológico), for the
Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation Scholarships (PIBIC) at the
Aeronautics Institute of Technology, for the
project "Thermionic Cathode Discharge in Low Pressure".
Certificate
January 2004 — December 2006
Full Scholarship (≈$30,000) for three years at Farias Brito High School.