Ricardo Caldas Santana

Academic Background

Building technology that adapts to people, not the other way around

I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at KTH (Department of Intelligent Systems) and the Media & Language Research Arena (WASP), supervised by Dr. Pereira. My research focuses on integrating Representation Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable seamless, socially-aware collaboration between humans and machines.

I earned my M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from TU Delft, where I applied deep reinforcement learning to autonomous air mobility, under the supervision of Dr. Sharpanskykh and Dr. Wei.

Professional Experience

Before academia, I spent 2 years as a Digital Consultant at McKinsey & Company, driving AI projects and launching new logistics, insurance, and energy startups. During my master's, I did a half-year research stint at Sensei, developing real-time 3D human pose estimation.