🎓 Bachelor in Information Systems at UFMG 🧠 AI Researcher and Developer at FutureLAB, UFMG 📍 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
I'm passionate about developing and optimizing AI systems. I enjoy searching for and reading new papers about novel AI techniques and staying aware of the state of the art in Foundation Models and Generative AI. I'm a beginner 中文 student and I'm in love with Chinese culture and customs. I love cooking Chinese food and I dream about getting the opportunity to visit the country soon, and maybe learn a bit of Shaolin Kung Fu! I also love photography, cats, and watching sci-fi series and movies.
🚀 Current focus
- Working on agentic AI systems optimization and developing Small Language Models for companies that use conversational models and natural language processing for sales. Did you know it's possible to derive a user's intent from the semantic latent space of the user–model conversation?
- Deploying sentence-embedding models for semantic analysis and sentiment extraction in chatbot conversations.
🔍 Research interests
- AI Engineering: foundation models, generative AI, agentic systems and machine learning techniques
- Faithfulness, fairness and safety in AI systems deployment
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning techniques
- Semantic analysis and sentiment NLP modeling in human–AI interactions
- Real-time semantic data enrichment for urban mobility
📚 Recent research
- Foundation Models and NLP — Measuring lead temperature using NLP and semantic analysis of the conversational embedding space in agentic systems (FAPEMIG Project)
- Intelligent Cities, Foundation Models and Agentic Systems — A multi-agent approach for real-time semantic enrichment of urban mobility data (TCC)
🧰 Tech Stack
- Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, PHP, CSS
- AI & Machine Learning: SmolAgents, HuggingFace, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, MLflow, SHAP/LIME
- Computer Vision & Data Science: OpenCV, Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly
- Data Engineering & DevOps: Git, Docker, Power BI, CI/CD
💬 Curious? Ask me anything! I enjoy discussing AI, computer science theory, Intelligent Cities connectivity and 中国文化.
📫 How to reach me: selene@ufmg.br