Pedro received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Pará (Brazil) in 2019. As an undergraduate student, he engaged in research on computational fluid dynamics applied to renewable energy technology. After graduation, he spent 1.5 years working in the mining industry as a graduate engineer, where he focused on automation engineering and project management. He is now pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the HeRA Group.
Aside from academia, he enjoys watching/playing sports and reading