About

I am a PhD student in computer science in cotutelle between École Polytechnique de Paris (France) and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) under the supervision of Prof. Catuscia Palamidessi and Mário S. Alvim.

My reserach interesets include responsible computing, privacy, Quantitative Information Flow (QIF), differential privacy and information theory.

More about QIF: Topete Research Group.

Education

• Mar 2023 – Present
  PhD in Computer Science

  École Polytechnique, and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  Palaiseau, France · Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  Studying a formal model for interpreting privacy as resistance to inferences under the supervision of Catuscia Palamidessi and Mário S. Alvim.

• Oct 2020 – Jan 2023
  MSc in Computer Science

  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  Thesis defended and approved in January 11, 2023, titled A Quantitative Information Flow Model for Attribute-Inference Attacks and Utility in Data Releases by Sampling.

  Supervised by professor Mário Sérgio Alvim.

  Member of the team that executed the PRICE (Privacidade nos Censos Educacionais) project, a cooperation between the Department of Computer Science of UFMG and Inep (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira). Studied methods to control data disclosure, focused especially on those based in differential privacy. The work has been used by Inep in reviewing privacy policies in the disclosure of official educational census data.

  CAPES scholarship at the Graduate Program in Computer Science.

• Jan 2016 – Jun 2020
  B.Sc. in Information Systems

  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• Jan 2012 – Dec 2015
  Associate's Degree, Information Technology

  Fundação de Ensino de Contagem - FUNEC
  Contagem, Brazil