Luiz Fernando is a PhD student at The Catholic University of America (CUA) and a Research Assistant at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He has a Bachelor?s Degree in Physics from University of Brasília (UnB) and a Master of Science in Physics from CUA. Luiz?s main area of research is Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections and Magnetic Clouds (MCs) with focus on implementing Machine Learning on in-situ measurements of spacecrafts. Luiz has been conducting a research Focused on Image Recognition models using Convolutional Neural Networks and Deep Learning to identify patterns data from spacecraft such as Wind with the objective to classify and predict MCs events. He has also been assisting on the development of Flux Ropes models in order to reconstructs events based on in-situ data. In addition, in 2013 Luiz Fernando was granted by the Brazilian government a merit scholarship award to study as an exchange student for a year at St. John?s university, in New York City, and for three months was an intern at Boston University where he helped to develop and benchmark CMEs simulation models.
