I am a Ph.D. student at Mila and the Université de Montréal, supervised by Professor Simon Lacoste-Julien. I’m also a visiting researcher at Meta AI (FAIR) Montreal, supervised by Professor Pascal Vincent. I am broadly interested in causal representation learning.

I have a master’s degree in data science from the University of Helsinki, where I was supervised by Professor Aapo Hyvärinen and Dr. Antti Hyttinen, working on independent component analysis for binary data (thesis).

I grew up in Brazil and moved to Finland to do my bachelor’s in computer science at the University of Helsinki. During my bachelor’s degree, I worked mostly on machine learning for particle physics and spent a couple of summers at CERN in Professor Maria Spiropulu’s group and Dr. Maurizio Pierini’s group.

Contact

vitoria.barin-pacela at mila.quebec

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