Gabriel Abreu at the Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT

Mathematics · Optimization · Machine Learning

Gabriel Abreu

PhD Student in Mathematics at NYU Courant

2024–present

Vice President

Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT

Oversee the AI4Good program, coordinating Brazilian researchers presenting open-source AI projects to an international audience at Harvard.

2026–present

Teacher

Petey Greene Program, New York

Tutor incarcerated students in academic subjects, particularly math, supporting their preparation for college-level coursework and exams.

2023–2025

Data Science Intern

Brandeis Investment Management · DSII Lab

Built an LLM search engine with Retrieval-Augmented Generation for university file retrieval. Presented at the New England Statistical Society NextGen Data Science Day.

Evaluated green energy and venture capital funds; developed an Excel-based carbon model for portfolio sustainability tracking.

2023–2024

Lead Assistant

Lifespan Lab

Led 6 research assistants building ML models for automated audio scoring from psychology experiments, achieving 96% accuracy.

Jul 2026

Research on the Feynman sprinkler featured in The New York Times — "Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883."

2025

Selected to present RAG research at the New England Statistical Society NextGen Data Science Day.