Laura O. Moraes

Biography

Laura O. Moraes is a professor at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). She has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science at COPPE / UFRJ in the artificial intelligence research field. She graduated in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, during which she acted as a software engineer in the UFRJ-CERN collaboration. From 2011 to 2021, she was a co-founding partner of the data science start-up Twist Systems. In 2018, she participated in the Data Science for Social Good program at the University of Chicago, developing a predictive model to identify individuals at high risk of long-term unemployment. In 2019, she was a finalist for the 2nd EPFL Engineering Ph.D. Summit and presented her doctoral research at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She worked as a lecturer for the MBA in Big Data & Analytics at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2019 and 2020 and taught Computer Science classes at Colégio Pedro II.

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Contact

E-mail: laura@uniriotec.br

Github: lauramoraes and laura-moraes

LinkedIn: lofmoraes 

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PAST PROJECTS

Machine Teaching

At this project we aim at creating a personalized learning system in Introduction to Programming classes as a way to uncover students’ difficulties, to understand their knowledge and to provide timely feedback to keep students engaged.

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Predicting long-term unemployment in Portugal

At this project we aim at better identifying individuals at high risk of long-term unemployment (LTU) and supporting more efficient allocation of IEFP’s resources to respond to the needs of unemployed individuals.

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Lasso Tree

At this project we propose a decision-tree approach for the differential diagnosis of B-cell chronic lymphoproliferative disorders using flow cytometry data.

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Talks

Interpretabilidade dos modelos: o que são? Onde vivem? Do que se alimentam? (a partir de 1:00:26)

Portuguese - Nov 25, 2021  - Online (Semana PESC 2021)

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Como a análise de dados educacionais pode melhorar a educação? 

Portuguese - Jul 16, 2021 - Online (Festival do Conhecimento 2021)

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Unsupervised Concept Extraction in an Introduction to Programming Course

Portuguese - Feb 24, 2021  - Online

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Roda de Conversa: Os impactos da Inteligência Artificial na Educação

Portuguese - Oct 26, 2020  - Online (Roda de Conversa)

Social Impact of Data

Portuguese - Nov 13, 2019  - Casa Firjan (Diálogos da Inovação)

A Framework to Support Teachers in Identifying Knowledge Gaps

English - Oct 3, 2019 - EPFL (Engineering PhD Summit)

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Data Science Applied to Social Good

Portuguese - Oct 11, 2018 - UFRJ (Semana PESC 2018)

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