Awards and Grants
2024 |
🎖 SMART Postdoctoral Fellowship (Digital Futures grant) - 2-year fellowship at KTH - Stockholm, Sweden |
2024 |
🏆 Best Doctoral Thesis at the Thesis and Dissertation Contest - Augmenting the dark: exploring assistive micro-guidance in sonified mixed reality, SVR 2024. Manaus, Brazil |
2023 |
🎖 Finalist at the Cross-Reality Systems for Real-World Scenarios competition - Immersive tele-guidance towards evoking empathy with people who are vision impaired, IEEE ISMAR 2023. Sydney, China |
2023 |
🎖 Nomination for Best Paper Award - Evoking empathy with visually impaired people through an augmented reality embodiment experience, IEEE VR 2023. Shanghai, China |
2021 |
🥈Student Innovation Challenge: Audience Choice - Vibrotactile Data Physicalization of Covid Cases in South America, IEEE World Haptics Conference 2021. Montreal, Canada |
2020 |
🎖 Latin American PhD Scholarship (ATN grant) - 3-year scholarship at RMIT University - Melbourne, Australia |
2020 |
🏆Best Poster - A Usability Assessment of Augmented Situated Visualization, IEEE VR 2020. Atlanta, USA |
2020 |
🏆3DUI Contest Winner - 3DUI and the Phantom Limb: multisensory experience for embodiment of amputation, IEEE VR 2020. Atlanta, USA |
2019 |
🎖 Linnaeus-Palme (UHR grant) - 6-month M.Sc. scholarship at Halmstad University. Halmstad, Sweden |
2018 |
🥉3rd Place at the I Workshop de Inovacao da Diretoria de Educacao a Distancia da CAPES - Laboratorio Virtual AVATAR, CAPES. Brasilia, Brazil |
2016 |
2x🎖 Dean's List (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016) - GPA-based scholastic achievement - Radford University. Radford, USA |
2015 |
🎖 Ciencia sem Fronteiras (CAPES grant) - 1-year BSc. scholarship at Radford University. Radford, USA |