Luiz Manella Pereira

Ph.D. Candidate

About Me

I'm a former professional figure skater who turned Ph.D. student. My research is focused on the integration of optimal transport in different areas of machine learning, specifically in federated learning. I am passionate about all areas of artificial intelligence, how to merge biological phenomenon with artifical methods, and how to apply these methods in robotics.

Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Drones
  • Robotics
  • Engineering

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Florida International University

MSc in Computer Science

Florida International University

BS in Applied Mathematics

Florida International University

BBA in Finance

Florida International University

2021 Best Journal Paper Award, Springer Nature Operations Research Forum Journal

The Operations Research Forum (ORFO) Best Paper Award celebrates and rewards some of the most seminal research from the discipline of operations research published in ORFO.


Publications

A survey on optimal transport for machine learning: Theory and applications
Luiz Manella Pereira, Luis Caicedo Torres, M. Hadi Amini
Topological data analysis for network resilience quantification
Luiz Manella Pereira, Luis Caicedo Torres, M. Hadi Amini
Towards Real-time House Detection in Aerial Imagery Using Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network
Ahmed, Khandaker Mamun; Ghareh Mohammadi, Farid; Matus, Manuel; Shenavarmasouleh, Farzan; Manella Pereira, Luiz; Ioannis, Zisis; Amini, M. Hadi
On the Impact of the Embedding Process on Network Resilience Quantification
Luiz Manella Pereira, S. S. Iyengar, M. Hadi Amini


Working On

OT-Based Domain Alignment as a Preprocessing Step for Federated Learning
Luiz Manella Pereira, M. Hadi Amini
Heterogeneous Federated Reinforcement Learning
Luiz Manella Pereira, M. Hadi Amini


Research Fellowships

Department of Homeland Security

Center for Advancing Education and Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CAESCIR) is a Scientific Leadership Award granted by the United States Department of Homeland Security, to research critical infrastructures security and resilience.

U.S. Department of Education

The Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship is a prestigious research fellowship for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. It is offered through FIU and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Projects

ARQA

AutoRetrivalQA, or ARQA, is a LLM application designed to automatically process a document by answering pre-built questionnaires.
Github

ML Manuscript

A lifelong project to try and create a manuscript of machine learning. The document, and its relative code base, should act as a reference manual.
Github

RPi Game

Capture Balls Game is a joystick game made on a Raspberry Pi 4. You race against a bot to see who can capture more balls in 60 seconds.
Github

Trading Lab

A simpler version of the complex simulator I developed for Algo-nomics. It allows for realistic simulations of one or more trading strategies concurrentlly.
Github