CV

Contact Information

Name Juanpablo Heredia
Professional Title PhD Student in Mathematical Modelling and Data Science
Email jherediaparillo@gmail.com

Experience

  • 2024 - 2025

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Teaching Assistant
    Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
    Assisted in teaching the undergraduate Data Visualization course across two semesters.
  • 2022 - 2023

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Guest Researcher (Internship)
    Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
    • Developed an LLM-based chatbot to generate visualizations from natural language queries and CSV datasets.
  • 2022 - 2022

    Arequipa, Peru

    Full Stack Developer
    Inhogar Real Estate
    • Built a website and CRM platform supporting real estate and HR workflows.
  • 2020 - 2022

    Arequipa, Peru

    Research Student
    Catholic University San Pablo
    • Conducted pre-professional research in computer vision.
    • Developed image-based emotion recognition pipelines using machine and deep learning methods.

Education

  • 2023 - 2027

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    PhD
    Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Visual Data Science Lab
    Mathematical Modelling and Data Science
    • {“Supervisor”=>”Prof. Jorge Poco.”}
  • 2016 - 2021

    Arequipa, Peru

    BSc
    Universidad Catolica San Pablo
    Computer Science
    • {“Supervisor”=>”Prof. Regina Ticona.”}
    • Ranked 2nd in class.

Publications

  • 2022
    Adaptive multimodal emotion detection architecture for social robots
    IEEE Access
  • 2021
    A multi-modal visual emotion recognition method to instantiate an ontology
    16th International Conference on Software Technologies
  • 2023
    A framework to evaluate fusion methods for multimodal emotion recognition
    IEEE Access
  • 2022
    Multimodal emotional understanding in robotics
    SENTIRobots Workshop at 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
  • 2024
    FishBiasLens: Integrating Large Language Models and Visual Analytics for Bias Detection
    IEEE VAST Challenge
  • 2024
    Tracking Overfishing: Visual Analytics of Suspicious Behaviors in Commercial Fishing Vessels
    IEEE VAST Challenge

Awards and Scholarships

  • 2025
    Best Paper Award
    SIBGRAPI Visualization and Computer Graphics Track
  • 2024
    Strong Data Enrichment Award
    IEEE VAST Challenge
  • 2024
    IEEE VIS Diversity and Inclusion Award
    IEEE VIS

    Registration and accommodation grant for IEEE VIS 2024.

  • 2023
    Direct PhD Scholarship
    Sao Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP)

    Full scholarship with monthly stipend (through 2027-05).

  • 2023
    PhD Scholarship
    Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

    Tuition support (through 2027-02).

  • 2021
    Undergraduate Thesis Competition
    Universidad Catolica San Pablo

    Awarded 3rd place.

  • 2020
    Academic Distinguished Undergraduate Award
    Universidad Catolica San Pablo

    Ranked 2nd in undergraduate class.

Skills

Programming: Python, C++, JavaScript, MATLAB/Scilab, LaTeX
Machine Learning: PyTorch, scikit-learn, HuggingFace Transformers, TensorFlow, Keras
Technologies: Git, Pandas, NumPy, Node.js, Django, Linux, GCS

Languages

Spanish : Native
English : Intermediate (B2)
Portuguese : Intermediate
Italian : Elementary