Achievements, Honours and Recognitions
Winner - TBA, 23 June 2021
Winner - TBA, 09 July 2021
Data Leader of the Year Finalist, Women in IT Awards
Twenty in Data Winner, Women in Data UK
Grace Hopper Conference EMEA grant, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Technology Ambassador, AllBright Club
AI Professional of the Year Finalist, Computing Magazine
Digital Star Winner, Lloyds Banking Group & Everywoman Awards
The Freedom of the City of London (Freeman), City of London
Member of the Interplanetary Internet SIG, The Internet Society
Commencement Speaker, Faculty of Engineering - UCL Graduates 2020
International Engineer (IntPE), Washington Accord & UK Engineering Council
European Engineer (EUR ING), Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingénieurs
Freeman, Worshipful Company of Engineers
Most Influential Women in UK Tech list, ComputerWeekly
Fellow, The Institute of Engineering and Technology
Certified Professional Data Engineer, Google
AI Principles Ethics Fellowship, Google
Future Stars of Tech 2020: AI, Finalist (Top 5)
Cognition X Rising Starts in AI, Finalist (Top 3)
Woman of the Year, Finalist - Women in IT Excellence Awards
Hero of the Year, Finalist -Women in IT Excellence Awards
Rising Star of the Year, Finalist - Women in IT Excellence Awards
Member of UCL CS Department Athena Swan Committee 2010-2020, Winner of Minerva Informatics Equality Award
Cast member of the TV Series Documentary "Em Movimento" - Winner of "Grand Prize for Journalism" (BRA)
Elected Member of the IET Technical Communities Network committee, IET Annual Elections 2019
Honorary Associate Professorship, University College London
Chartered Engineer - UK Engineering Council
Fellow, The Royal Society of Arts
Book Publishing, Data as Infrastructure for Smart Cities, the IET
Women as Future Leaders Inspire Program, Class of 2018, McKinsey
Winner of the Data Leader Award - MEDIA, MARKETING, INTERNET & LEARNING, Information Age
Technology Innovation Award Finalist (Top 3), WISE Campaign
Digital Leaders 100 list
Young Digital Leader of the Year Finalist (Top 5), Digital Leaders
Winner of the WES Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards , WES Prize 2017, WES-IET
Recipient of the Romberg Grant, Heidelberg Laureate Foundation
Google Developer Challenge Scholarship, 2017
NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Developer Program 2017
Android Developer Scholar, Google
Rising Star Awards Finalist (Top 5), We are The City UK
Honorary Research Associate, University College London
6 out of 200 Researchers, Heidelberg Laureate Forum - Germany
Google Anita Borg Grant, Google
TEDx invited speaker, Smart Cities, TEDx Women
Heidelberg Laureate Forum Scholarship, University College London
ACM Conference Grant – Sweden
Research Grant from ARUP to develop a Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things - UK
Google Global Scholarship, USA
Inspiration Awards for Women Finalist (Top 3) – Inspirational Student - UK
Women in Engineering Society Scholarship - UK
Conference Scholarship, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
100 Next Generation of Women Leaders, McKinsey (Selected from a pool of 4500 young professionals).
Winner of the ACM Research Competition 2014 - USA
Recipient of two ACM Conference Awards - USA
Visiting Scholar Scholarship – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA
Intel Fellowship “Doctoral Student Honour Award”, Intel 2013
Google Global Scholarship, Google 2013
Architecture and Engineering Award Winner, British Federation of Women Graduates
Doctoral Summer School Scholarship, SIEMENS
Doctoral Summer School Scholarship, European Institute of Innovation & Technology
Winner of the IBM Smart Cities Competition, IBM Laboratories, Hursley Park - UK
Google Conference Travel Awards
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Google 2012
Doctoral Summer School Scholarship, European Institute of Innovation & Technology
University Bursary, University College London
Associate Fellow, The UK Higher Education Academy
Professional Member, British Computer Society
PhD Computer Science Scholarship, Faculty of UCL Engineering – UK
PhD Computer Science Scholarship, European and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – UK
Grant to pursue Certificate in Integrated Business Processes, Lancaster University & University Duisburg Essen
PhD Computer Science Scholarship, Brazilian Government (CNPq) - Brazil
Natcor Stochastic Modelling scholarship, EPSRC
Conference Award from Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Scholarship for the Pre-sessional Course “English for Academic Purposes” from Lancaster University - UK
PhD Management Science Scholarship from Lancaster University, UK
PhD Computer Science Scholarship from University of Birmingham, UK
PhD Computer Science Scholarship, Centro Universitário Barão de Mauá - Brazil
PhD Computer Science Scholarship from Brazilian Government (CAPES) - Brazil
Conference Travel Award, CAPES
Visiting Professorship, MBA in Logistics Systems, University of Parana - Brazil
MPhil in Electrical Engineering Scholarship from Brazilian Government (CAPES) - Brazil
Postgraduate Research Grant from Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), University of Sao Paulo - Brazil
Conference Award, XI Brazilian Conference in Health Informatics
Valeditorian Student, Centro Universitário Barão de Mauá, Brazil
Best Student in Computer Science (2007 class) - Brazilian Computer Society
Gold Medal in robotics competition from Centro Universitário Barão de Mauá, Brazil
Scientific Initiation Program Scholarship from Centro Universitário Barão de Mauá, Brazil
Conference Award, 8º Conference of Scientific Initiation and Research of the University of Ribeirão Preto
Conference Award, VII Conference of Scientific Initiation of the Federal University of São Carlos
Conference Award, 15th International Symposium of Scientific Initiation
BSc Computer Science Scholarship, Government of State of São Paulo – Brazil
Special "Thank you" to the organisations that supported my career
