Selected academic work across engineering, business, and economics. Full documents shared on request.
Master's research monograph·The Lauder Institute · University of Pennsylvania·2022EN
How Costa Rica came to export twice as much specialty coffee as Ethiopia — coffee's birthplace
A comparative economic-history study of why Costa Rica — where coffee arrived only around 1800 — exports roughly twice as much specialty coffee as Ethiopia, coffee's birthplace. Comparing the two countries across nature (soil, climate, hydrography), history & institutions, and economics, it finds that flavor is not the differentiator — cupping scores are nearly tied. Costa Rica's edge comes from ideal growing conditions combined with institutional stability and a developed export economy: long democratic stability, supportive institutions (ICAFE, FECAFE), and trade openness. Advised by Dr. Denise Dahlhoff and Dr. Regina Abrami.
Full document on request→Co-authored article·The Lauder Report 2022 · University of Pennsylvania·2022EN
The Digital Payment Revolution: Four Case Studies Across Asia
A co-authored article in the 2022 Lauder Report (Banking & Finance) on how four Asian markets — China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia — moved toward cashless payments, and what it takes in digital infrastructure to get there. It traces the COVID-accelerated shift to contactless, real-time payments and contrasts each market's model: Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, India's UPI, Singapore's PayNow, and Indonesia's state-led rollout — closing on the societal stakes of financial inclusion. Written with André Rodrigues Ferreira, Grace Yating Guan, Phyo Win, and Tam Luong (Lauder Class of 2023).
Read the publication→Engineering thesis / scoping study·UTC Compiègne · Manufacture Cartier Lunettes·2015–2016FR
Knowledge Management System — design & implementation in the luxury industry
A study to design a knowledge-management system for Manufacture Cartier Lunettes (Cartier's eyewear division) that captures and preserves know-how, prevents repeating past errors, and preserves innovation traces to feed new projects. It proposes concrete tools — a cross-department process map, a color-coded competitive-intelligence (veille) system, a competence-localization tool to surface tacit know-how, an idea/suggestion pipeline, and a global cross-trade database of interlinked records with photos, video and 3D — grounded in KM literature and built around capture-as-you-go. Supervised by Pascal Alberti (UTC) and Ludovic Pilache (Cartier).
Full document on request→Undergraduate research (Iniciação Científica)·20º SIICUSP · University of São Paulo·2012PT
Algorithms on graphs and their applications to complex biological networks
Undergraduate research applying graph algorithms to the analysis of complex biological networks — modeling biological systems as graphs and using algorithmic and statistical methods to extract structure and insight. Conducted at USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics and presented at the 20th International Symposium of Scientific Initiation (SIICUSP).
Full document on request→Technical graduation project · award-winning·Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo·2008PT
Wireless residential home-automation system
An award-winning technical graduation project: a wireless residential home-automation system, recognized as the most distinctive telecommunications graduation project at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo.
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