About

I am an AI leader and founding engineer with 15+ years of experience building AI systems across healthcare and AI safety. I lead end-to-end AI product roadmaps, from technical strategy and research through engineering and deployment. My career has taken me from AI research in Munich to Google X in California.

From Munich to Google X in Mountain View, CA

I first joined X, The Moonshot Factory as an AI PhD Resident in Mountain View where I worked with the central AI team and achieved up to a 10x performance improvement on a challenging real-world problem. I later returned to X and started a project to help organizations build cryptographic inventories and prepare for migration to quantum-resistant algorithms.

After that, I joined SandboxAQ as a founding engineer. The company combines AI, quantum techniques and scientific modeling to build products for exponential challenges. I have helped build and lead AI teams, launch products, guide technical pilots, and establish engineering practices. Most recently, I have been leading AI work on simulation and denoising for an unshielded magnetocardiography (MCG) device designed to support cardiovascular disease detection.

Research in AI Safety

I completed my PhD at the Research Institute CODE, working with Prof. Dr. Gabi Dreo Rodosek of Universität der Bundeswehr München and Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Cavallaro of University College London. My research explored how machine-learning systems respond to adversarial manipulation and how to make them more robust. My dissertation was awarded summa cum laude with distinction. The book based on my dissertation and the FAME software package are available online.

Earlier in my career, I also explored the security implications of genomic data in my master’s thesis and co-founded an early-stage AI startup exploring AI approaches to battery chemistry. Today, I continue to build AI solutions for healthcare and support early-stage startups as they shape AI products.

Origins

It’s often jokingly said that nobody really knows where I’m from. There is some truth to this: throughout my life, I’ve had the privilege of living in five different countries: Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, and the United States. Each of these places is unique in its own way, yet what always stands out to me is how similar people are, regardless of where they come from.

Outside work

I am an avid traveler who has visited around 60 countries and a passionate photographer. I am always excited to plan the next trip.