Name:Angelica Aparecida Moreira

Bio:

Angélica Moreira is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Due to her PhD project, she has been awarded the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2021-2022, the Facebook Emerging Scholar Award 2019-2021 and the 3rd place at IEEE/ACM SRC CGO-2021. She is a member of the Compilers Laboratory (LAC), where she is advised by Professor Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira and Co-advised by Guilherme Ottoni from Meta (previously known as Facebook). She holds an M.Sc degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) and a B.Sc degree in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas).

Angélica’s research interest lies in pursuing the design and implementation of techniques that reduce program binary size and make them run faster on heterogeneous architectures. Her research focuses on combining machine learning and compilation techniques to achieve her goal. Her dream is to contribute to a better world through the development of science and technology.

Country:Brazil

Affiliation:Federal University of Minas Gerais

Research interests:Compilers, Static Analysis, HPC and Applied Machine Learning :)