José Pedro Gomes is a Ph.D. student working in the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision, and deep learning. Aiming to push the boundaries of generative models to create visually stunning and immersive virtual environments. José is supervised by Prof. Fernando De La Torre at CMU and Prof. Alexandre Bernardino in Portugal.
Brissa Acevedo holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Her undergraduate research focused on the adverse effects of shampoo, wastewater treatment, and renewable energy. Currently, Brissa researches community perceptions and impacts on regional decarbonization investments.
Cláudia Mamede has a BSc & MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering from FEUP (Portugal). With the constant digitalization of the world, her focus is on how crucial it is to design better and safer software. Cláudia’s research interests revolve around the applications of deep learning to help detect and fix software vulnerabilities as fast as possible.
Pedro Cachim holds a dual Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from IST and ISAE-SUPAERO and works as a guidance, navigation and control engineer at GMV. His PhD research will focus on the provably safe and performant implementation of optimization-based guidance and control algorithms.
Marta Calisto Freitas is a Biomedical Engineer currently pursuing a Dual Degree PhD at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra, researching soft and printed electronics to develop novel solutions for soft medical robotics.
Diana Vieira Fernandes is a PhD student in Engineering and Public Policy at Instituto Superior Técnico and Carnegie Mellon University under the CMU Portugal Program. She holds a Law Degree and a Master’s in Law and Management (NOVA Law School and NOVA SBE). Her research focuses on secure, distributed electricity markets in low-voltage networks.
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.
