Bea is a creative director and a CMU Portugal Dual Degree PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction. She works on ocean literacy games that foster a sense of interconnectedness with the ocean. She also uses photography to reflect on people’s embodied experiences of the sea. Her research focuses on posthuman HCI, hydrocommons and more-than-human entanglements.
Before returning to academia, she worked internationally as a creative director for 2 decades. Starting in advertising, she then transitioned to environmental campaigning, where she worked on ideating communication campaigns for NGOs such as Greenpeace and WWF.
I got my BSc in Electronics Engineering and my MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both at IST, this last one focused on micro and nano-electronics design. The objective for my Ph.D. under the CMU Portugal Program is to develop and improve power harvesting and data transmission techniques for integrated circuits applied to bioengineering.
Carolina Carreira, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and IST, focuses on usable security. Her research interests include the usability of formal methods, the human aspects of software engineering, and privacy. Additionally, she actively contributes to the community by organizing seminars and actively participating in the SIGPLAN-M.
I hold a MSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IST, focused in Artificial Intelligence. During my MSc thesis I’ve worked on Neural Information Retrieval, applied to the Geographic domain and I will pursue my Ph.D. focusing on Neural Information Retrieval.
