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Luana Ruiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated in 2022. Her research interests include large-scale graph machine learning, graph neural networks, signal processing, and data science. Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo in Brazil and has also studied at École Supérieure d'Electricité in France. Luana has been recognized as an iREDEFINE fellow in 2019 and was named a Rising Star by MIT EECS in 2021. Additionally, she received the Eiffel Excellence scholarship from the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, which she held from 2013 to 2015. Luana has also received Student Paper awards from the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in both 2019 and 2021. Her work is focused on unlocking hidden patterns that enhance AI capabilities and developing efficient approaches within the field of graph neural networks. Luana is a member of the Data Science AI Institute at Johns Hopkins University, contributing to advanced research in applied mathematics and its applications in technology and AI.
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