people at our lab

Gabriel Coutinho has been a professor at DCC/UFMG since 2017. His research focuses on the intersection of combinatorics, linear algebra, optimization, and quantum computing. He has published extensively in leading international journals and has supervised both Master’s and PhD students.

He has partnered with industry and public organizations to apply mathematics and machine learning in solving practical problems.

Paula Fialho has been a postdoc at DCC/UFMG since 2023, with a FAPEMIG scholarship. Her research focuses on the combinatorics of statistical mechanichs models and connections to algebraic combinatorics. She did her PhD at UFMG under the supervision of Aldo Procacci.

Soffía Arnadóttir has been a postdoc at DCC/UFMG since 2024, with a CNPq scholarship. Her research focuses on algebraic graph theory and applications to quantum walks. She did her PhD at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Chris Godsil, and a postdoc at Technical University of Denmark under the supervision of David Roberson.

Emanuel Juliano is a PhD student at DCC/UFMG under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho. During 2025, he is also a PhD visitor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, visiting Aida Abiad. His research is mostly in spectral and extremal graph theory, with a view towards quantum computing and algorithms.

Frederico Cançado is a PhD student at DCC/UFMG under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho. His research is mostly on the interplay of algebraic graph theory and quantum walks. He has been working as a research assistant at a Petrobras/UFMG cooperation agreement.

Francielle Alves just started her PhD studies at DCC/UFMG under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho. She will be working on spectral graph theory.

Pedro Vinícius is PhD student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Research interests: quantum computing and quantum information theory. For 6 months in 2022-23 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Copenhagen under the supervision of Prof. Laura Mančinska. He has also been working as a research assistant at a Petrobras/UFMG cooperation agreement.

Danilo Vomlel
Master's student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Dissertation theme: machine learning applications to geology.
Industry partnerships: Petrobras/UFMG and Sinobras/UFMG.

Felipe Eduardo dos Santos
Master's student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Dissertation theme: Quantum ray tracing.
Industry partnerships: Petrobras/UFMG.

Luan Henrique Costa
Master's student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Dissertation theme: Quantum machine learning.
He works as a data scientist at Itaú.

Henrique Assumpção
Master's student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Dissertation theme: Algebraic graph theory and colourings.
He works as a research scientist at Inter.

Matheus Aquino
Master's student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Dissertation theme: Quantum machine learning.
He works as a software engineer at Google.

Pedro Cipriano
Master's student under the supervision of Gabriel Coutinho.
Dissertation theme: SDP applications to cuts and clustering.
He works at Physa.

Augusto Pavenello
Undergrad researcher (Mathematics Major).
Topic of research: Graph theory applications to complex systems.

Gabriel Vieira
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: Machine learning applied to geology.
Industry partnerships: Petrobras/UFMG.

Gustavo Mattos
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: Machine learning applied to geology.
Industry partnerships: Petrobras/UFMG.

Marcos Daniel
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: Machine learning applied to geology.
Industry partnerships: Petrobras/UFMG.

Laila Vaz
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: Quantum algorithms and applications to finance.
Industry partnerships: Inter/UFMG.

Luis Higino
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: Semidefinite optimization.

Pedro Faria
Undergrad researcher (Physics Major).
Topic of research: Quantum finance.
Industry partnerships: Inter/UFMG.

Thiago Assis
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: Quantum finance.
Industry partnerships: Inter/UFMG.

Chris Godsil
Emeritus professor at University of Waterloo.

Thomás Jung Spier
Postdoc at University of Waterloo.

Aida Abiad
Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

Krystal Guo
Professor at University of Amsterdam.

Marcel K. de Carli Silva
Professor at University of São Paulo.