Barkie

A walking four-legged robot made almost completely with a nylon sls printer. Uses reverse kinematics to walk in a stable manner

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Rocket Firing Station

An integrated computer system to collect telemetry from a rocket launchpad and control the remote launch of a hybrid experimental rocket.

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WaveSimC

This project implements a wave equation solver for geophysical applications in modern C++ . In addition, a custom implementation of numpy in modern C++ is also included as a header library. This sub-library aims to make C++ more pythonic and easier to use for scientific computing.

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Work Experience

Google

Full Time SWE - Working on compilers for Machine Learning applications.

Summer internship - Worked on applying machine learning tools to detect anomalies in data in large scale SQL databases.

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Amazon Web Services

Summer internship - Worked on AppFlow using many AWS products to migrate the front-end to a new proprietary framework and add functionalities.

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Impulso Gov

Summer internship - Developed and led open source software projects with the objective of helping governments fight the coronavirus pandemic throughout Brazil using science and data.

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Columbia Space Initiative

Student Club - Led the sub-team from 2021 to 2023 leading the development of an entire suite of electronic subsystems to an experimental hybrid rocket.

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Publications

A physical investigation on the phenomenon of the Dancing Coin

Victor Barros, Malu Miguez

When a coin is placed on the neck of a cold bottle, the coin will move cyclically. This is caused by the expansion of the gas inside the bottle warming up, which will cause the coin to rise when the internal pressure is large enough to overcome the weight of the coin. This problem, widely used to qualitatively demonstrate several laws of thermodynamics, has no quantitative solution in the literature. For this we use the ideal gas model and Newton's law of cooling combined with computational numerical simulations and systematic experimental measures to confront our theoretical model, including equations for the evolution of temperature, pressure and behaviour of the coins in the system.