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.

Leonardo Esteves is a professor at UFC currently visiting our group in his sabatical year. His research focus on quantum finance. He is currently supported by the UFMG / Banco Inter cooperation agreement.

Thomás Jung Spier is a CNPq "Conhecimento Brasil" scholar since 2025. His research focuses on graph polynomials, semidefinite optimization and quantum information. He did his PhD at IMPA under the supervision of C.G. Tamm Moreira.

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.

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.

João Pedro Menicucci
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: algorithms in graphs.
Industry partnerships: MPMG/UFMG.

Gustavo Mattos
Undergrad researcher (Computer Science Major).
Topic of research: algorithms in graphs.
Industry partnerships: MPMG/UFMG.

Júlia Guedes
Undergrad researcher (Physics 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.

Chris Godsil
Emeritus professor 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.