I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where I lead the MOSAIC research group, working at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Creativity, primarily in Generative AI and Music Information Retrieval. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). I also served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, as part of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
February 2026
We will host another amazing event this year. I'm thrilled to announce that LAMIR'26 is going to be at UFMG, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
April 2026
My PhD student Carlos Silva presented our paper Modeling Programming Skills with Source Code Embeddings for Context-aware Exercise Recommendation at the The 16th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, (LAK'26)
February 2026
I'm thrilled to announce that AIIDE'26 is going to be at UFMG, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This will be the first time the event is held outside North America!