Researcher and builder. Currently at MIT Senseable City Lab — Rio, running a research line on the urban science of informal settlements (LiDAR, CFD, solar geometry, environmental risk).
In parallel: open-source VLA benchmarking on top of lerobot, exploring world models.
- VLA benchmarks — open-source benchmark suite on top of lerobot · releasing end of June 2026
- Favela urban science — 3D modeling of informal settlements with LiDAR + CFD + solar exposure · paper forthcoming, June 2026
- Amsterdam tree-shade — high-resolution shade-availability modeling.
- World models — reading deeply, writing soon
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Based in Rio. French-Brazilian.