CV

Education

Bachelor of Economics, University of São Paulo (USP), 2020-2025
Ranked 1st out of 92 in cohort

Professional Experience

Summer Fellow, Centre for the Governance of AI | June 2025 - August 2025 (Upcoming)

• Selected as one of approximately 15 fellows from over 1,000 applicants
• Research focus: Societal impacts of AI
• Based in London

Research Assistant, Centre for the Governance of AI | May 2024 - Present

• RA to Sam Manning
• Analyzing AI-induced job displacement in the US; conducting statistical analysis for NBER volume chapter and Brookings report

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, USP | March 2024 - July 2024

• TA to Prof. M. Ross Fernandes
• Course: Mathematics Applied to Economics (undergraduate)

AI Engineer/Developer, Palver | May 2023 - October 2024

• Led AI development projects for public discourse tracking with models for news and content detection
• Early-stage Brazilian startup

Research Assistant, Cambridge Boston-Alignment Initiative | October 2023 - March 2024

• RA to C. Siegmann (MIT Economics PhD student)
• Analyzed AI supply chain structure focusing on semiconductors and AI labs

Summer Fellow, Pivotal Research, Geneva | July 2023 - August 2023

• Selected as one of 13 fellows from 500+ applicants
• Authored working paper on AI supply chain integration, mentored by C. Siegmann and A. Koh

Research in Economic History, USP | January 2023 - June 2024

• RA to R. Cariello and Prof. Colistete
• Built ML pipeline to transcribe 19th-century export data (funded by Brazil’s national research agency, CNPq)

Summer Intern, Giant Steps Capital | January 2022 - April 2022

• Worked on improvements of ML pipeline at major Latin American quantitative hedge fund

Research Assistant in Industrial Organization, USP | March 2020 - July 2021

• RA to Prof. Claudio Lucinda
• Researched petrochemical market concentration with National Council for Scientific and Technological Development scholarship

Research

Vulnerability-Weighted AI Exposure: Linking AI Exposure to the Expected Welfare Costs of Job Displacement Across Occupations
NBER Volume Economics of Transformative AI, forthcoming
With S. Manning (Centre for the Governance of AI)

Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility
R&R at Nature, 2025
With A. Brodeur, D. Valenta, A. Marcoci, J. Aparicio, D. Mikola, et al. (large-scale collaboration)

On Labs and Fabs: How Alliances, Acquisitions, and Antitrust are Shaping the Frontier AI Industry
arXiv working paper, 2024
Sole author

Polarization and Misinformation Cycles in Social Networks
In progress
With M. Fernandes (USP)

Debunking Extremism in WhatsApp: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In progress
With L. Meloni (USP), F. Bailez (Palver), M. Cruz (USP), M. Fernandes (USP)

Skills

Programming
Python, R, C/C++, Stata (in descending order of familiarity)

AI & Data Science
PyTorch, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, SQL, MongoDB, Solr

Other Technical Skills
MS Office, Google Drive, LaTeX/Overleaf, Git/GitHub, Markup

Languages
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic)

Service and Leadership

Member of the Executive Board, International Economics Olympiad | October 2022 - October 2026

• Elected to the IEO Executive Board as former silver medalist and trainer of three world-champion Brazilian teams
• The board oversees competition organization and long-term policies

Member of the Organizing Committee, Brazilian Economics Olympiad | January 2020 - May 2022

• Coordinated Academic Sector, managed test development, and led Communication Working Group
• Helped increase participation by +50% year-over-year

Awards and Grants

4th International Economics Olympiad | 2021
Leader of the Brazilian delegation (1st place among 44 participating countries)

SempreFEA Endowment Association grant | 2021
~4,000 USD grant for OBECON’s Communication Working Group

Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development | 2020
Scientific initiation scholarship

1st International Economics Olympiad | 2018
Silver Medal

1st Brazilian Economics Olympiad | 2018
1st place among ~2000 participants

Other Selected Activities

Teaching Assistant in ML4Good Brazil 2024 | 2024
10-day AI safety bootcamp for South American participants