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bcruznog@nd.edu

384 Nieuwland Sicence Hall, Notre Dame, IN

Hi. I'm Brenda Nogueira.

I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a graduate student at the NSF Center for Computer-Assisted Synthesis. My research area is Machine Learning and ML Foundations focused on graph problems and imbalanced data challenges for drug discovery, treatment response and material science.

Education

University of Notre Dame

PhD Computer Science and Engineering (Jan 2024-Present)

Advisors: Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla & Prof. Nuno Moniz

University of Porto

Master Degree in Data Science (Sep 2022-Dec 2024)

Bachelor Degree in Mathematics with Complementary Education in Computer Sicence

(Sep 2017-Jun 2022)

Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Technician in Administration Integrated to High School (April 2013-Dec 2016)

Experience

Graduate Fellow

NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis

Research on imbalance regression learning, graph neural networks, and drug discovery with machine learning.

2025-Present

Research Assistant

Lucy Institute for Data & Society

Exploration of Artificial Intelligence challenges in graph-structured data, with a focus on imbalanced domains and chemistry data.

2024-Present

Research Fellow

INESCTEC

Development of strategy for unraveling the intricacies inherent in cutting pattern and pioneering methods to anticipate complexity within novel pattern designs.

July 2022 - Dec 2023

Research Fellow

FCUP

Development of an automated email-entity association pipeline using natural language processing, text similarity, and entity linking methods. Scholarship financed by FCT.

Oct 2023 - Jun 2023

Research Initiation Fellow

INESCTEC

Development of a methodology for filling fissing information about landings in the OKEANOS dataset using machine learning and pre-processing strategies.

Aug 2022 - Sep 2022

Intern

INESCTEC

Development of an online platform using Shiny/R for public use of the existing automated machine learning method.

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

Intern

Ideavity

Development of a sales platform and applications using Outsystems.

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

Intern

Evolutio

Website creation using wagtail (based on Django). Python, HTML, and CSS were used as programming languages.

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022

Volunteer Intern

INESCTEC

Selection and implementation of face-based sleepiness recognition algorithms; app/web-based demonstrator development.

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

Intern

Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul

Tutoring in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, accounting, and finance.

Mar 2016 - Dec 2016

Intern

Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul

Internship extension at the Culture Project's Permanent Workshops: event organization, project coordination, and work presentation.

Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

Intern

Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul

Tutoring in mathematics.

May 2014 - Dec 2014

Published Papers

Rethinking Evaluation in Compound Potency Prediction

Brenda Nogueira, Nuno Moniz, Connor W. Coley, Nitesh Chawla. 2025 · Research Square

Experiential-Informed Data Reconstruction for Fishery Sustainability and Policies in the Azores (2025)

Brenda Nogueira, Gui M. Menezes, Nuno Moniz, Rita P. Ribeiro. 2025 · Discover Data

Dynamics of Fisheries in the Azores Islands: A Network Analysis Approach (2024)

Brenda Nogueira, Ana Torres, Nuno Moniz, Gui M Menezes. 2024 · EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Projects

Sleep Detection App

A web application for drowsiness detection developed during summer intership at INESCTEC.

Automated Machine Learning

Online platform for public use of the existing automated machine learning method, developed during INECTEC intership.