Awards

  • Presidential Fellowship, Columbia University.
  • CAIRFI Fellowship (Capital One).
  • Electrical Engineering Distinguished Teaching Award, Columbia University, for teaching Convex Optimization, Fall 2025.
  • Outstanding Paper Award, 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025 — "Learning Stabilizing Policies via an Unstable Subspace Representation."
  • Best Paper Award, Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 2024 — "Meta-Learning Linear Quadratic Regulators: A Policy Gradient MAML Approach for Model-free LQR" (oral, top 7.5%).
  • BRAFITEC Fellowship, CentraleSupélec.
  • First in Class Award, University of Campinas (Unicamp).