My Blog

In the last week of June I attended a teaching course entitled: “The Business of Managing Science: Entrepreneurial and Organizational skills for professionals working in life sciences” (BMS) organized by Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) and the international Pasteur Network (PN). As a scientist recently transitioned to bioinformatics and computational biology... [Read More]

Iniciando um projeto que parecia que nunca iria sair do papel. Nessa série farei reviews de álbums que me trazem algum sentimento, alguma coisa diferente que me faz querer sentar, escrever, dividir… Nesse primeiro review, vou interiorizar o álbum Flôres de 2018 do artista brasileiro Camões. [Read More]

In the spring of 2020 my research work on Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Binary Rewards done with my brilliant collaborator Minah Seo was featured in the KAIST Breakthroughs webzine. In the paper, we try to tackle the challenge of training robots with reinforcement learning in settings in which the reinforcement... [Read More]

In 2016, during my Master’s program, I was researching about Speech Synthesis and Natural Language Processing. To the development of Speech Synthesis systems, I was spending a lot of time editing Speech databases for Brazilian Portuguese. The work included endless hours at the studio listening, trimming audio and checking if... [Read More]

In 2015, when I was starting my Master’s I remember being fascinated by the introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long-short Term Memories (LSTM) that I read in Chris Olah’s blog. Not only the writing and details were so clear written by Chris but the potential of these networks... [Read More]