Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

• Part of the Consumer Insights team

Jul 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Remote

• Conducted foundational research to uncover core pillars of the ads user experience on YouTube. Led large-scale quantitative research to inform product direction on ads relevance, ads repetition, and ads trustworthiness. Supported several measurement efforts, including in-product survey formats and new Ads UX metrics across Google

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

• Conducted quantitative research on sentiment and efficiency of privacy processes and systems to support Facebook in honoring people's privacy when shipping new features and products.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• I interned with the Privacy team on a quantitative research project about user privacy concerns and user behavior on Facebook and Instagram.

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As an intern with the Trust team, I designed and evaluated explanatory and predictive models of trust between hosts and guests. This work led to a publication at WWW 2020.
• I also conducted large-scale statistical analyses to measure the impact of user identity verification on the platform and helped conduct qualitative user interviews on hosts' needs of information in guest profiles.

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a member of the Machine Learning research team, I designed and evaluated a framework to address bias and ethics in labeling tasks for machine learning. This work was published at CHI 2019 and Figure Eight has filed a patent on the technology.
• I also made contributions to the sensor-fusion prototype labeling tool for self-driving cars and improved an object tracking algorithm for machine-assisted video labeling.

May 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Syracuse, New York Area

• I designed and evaluated ubiquitous computing authentication systems for visually
• impaired users and contributed to a project on web accessibility crowdsourcing. This work led to academic publications at W4A 2015, UbiComp 2016, and a patent.

Mar 2013 – Jun 2013 · 3 mos · Singapore

• I designed and evaluated a pioneer 3D virtual reality app for the floristry program as part of the innovation lab.

Feb 2010 – Mar 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Joinville Area, Brazil

• I led the upgrade of the company-wide front-end stack used by 10-15 different apps.
• I also contributed to the implementation of cross-app Single-Sign-On (SSO) authentication and designed core system features such as print-friendly pages, user authorization, and recipe interpreter for the PLM platform.