Sara Malvar

About

Sara is a Senior Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft (opens in new tab). She is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Research Centre of Greenhouse Gas Innovation (opens in new tab) at University of São Paulo (opens in new tab), where she worked as a Postdoctoral fellow prior to joining Microsoft.

Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, physical and biological models and system. Sara received her Ph.D. from University of São Paulo in 2019, under the advice of Prof. Bruno Carmo (opens in new tab) in the Fluids and Dynamics Research Group (opens in new tab). During her Ph.D., she spent some time as a research intern in University of Pennsylvania (opens in new tab) with Prof. Paulo Arratia (opens in new tab) in 2019 and in University of Tokyo, with Prof. Shu Takagi (opens in new tab) in 2018. Before, she received an M.Sc. from the University of Brasília in 2015, under Prof. Francisco Ricardo Cunha (opens in new tab) and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universidade de Brasília (opens in new tab).

Sara is very interested in interdisciplinary problems that involve physics, biology and machine learning approaches. In the past years, she worked mainly with fluid mechanics of complex active suspensions,  soft-condensed matter, and signal processing/deep learning solutions for seismic inversion. She is also passionate about making the world a better place and eager to solve problems using data-driven approached. She is also quite interested in NLP, ML-based solutions for physical problems, STEAM/Biology intersection and sustainability.