Pedro Braga
Visiting PHD Student at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Braga is a PhD candidate and visiting researcher at Mila and ÉTS, specializing in unsupervised and self-supervised representation learning for computer vision and reinforcement learning. With 11 years of experience spanning applied research roles at Amazon and industry software engineering at CESAR, he bridges rigorous academic work (PhD, MSc with high honors) with production-focused development. His MSc thesis was recognized nationally as one of Brazil’s top AI theses, and he has taught programming and algorithms at multiple universities. Pedro also organizes LatinX in AI workshops at flagship conferences, signaling a commitment to community building and diversity in research. Notably, he combines deep theoretical rigor (4.0 GPA in his PhD) with hands-on mobile and backend engineering experience, enabling him to translate research ideas into practical systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA 91.5/100, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA 91.5/100 at Universidade Católica de PernambucoPh.D., Computer Science, GPA 4.0/4.0, Ph.D., Computer Science, GPA 4.0/4.0 at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (8)
agent-based-modeling4
sandbox4
justify4
wrapping4
agent3
agent-based-simulation3
android2
kotlin2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phbraga/deep-learning-ai
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
phbraga/ss-som
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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