TA's profile

 Nara Quintela Begnini is a PhD student at Morita Lab, Department of Information and Physical Sciences, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University. Brazilian, she holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Amazonas State University, Brazil, and MS in Information and Physical Sciences from Osaka University. During her bachelor’s, she got interested in Operations Research, a field that investigates decision problems and analytical methods to solve them. Such problems are frequent in industrial environments and their practical solutions require computational tools. For this reason, in 2017, she moved to Japan on the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship and pursued a master degree in a field related to Computer Science in Osaka University. During her master’s, she investigated on logistic problems and heuristics to solve their mathematical models. Her research interests lies on logistic problems, their mathematical models, heuristics algorithms, metaheuristics and machine learning. Her hobbies include hiking, cycling, watching anime and exploring Japan.