Responsible for the design and testing of Photonic Integrated Circuits a single-chip quantum processor.

Research arm of NEC Corporation. Worked on research projects spanning photonic computing, distributed artificial intelligence, datacenter optical link sensing and orchestration, and optically-assisted biosensing.

Education technology start-up that provides a personalized learning experience for each student using dynamic content and artificial intelligence algorithms. Today Geekie numbers over 100 employees, reaches five million students and has a governmental contract that delivers access to the platform for all students in public schools.

Led a transformative shift in Groupon's Business Intelligence from 2011, automating the end-to-end sales data process—handling millions of transactions weekly. This automation improved financial and sales reporting, allowing human resources to focus on tailored analysis for other departments. During this time, the company increased revenue by 20% while reducing its sales force by 33%.

Award-winning NGO project which provides technological solutions for visually-impaired users. I helped develop a cheap and fully functional open-source operating system that required no visual feedback. Hundreds of blind people used a computer for the first time thanks to this OS. Some of them were successfully employed as a result of the project. Mentor: Fernando Botelho