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Aruquia Peixoto

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About Aruquia Peixoto

Affiliations
CEFET/RJ
Bio

SIGGRAPH 2018

Dr. Aruquia Peixoto is an Assistant Professor at CEFET/RJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She have a B.S. in Mathematics from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), a M.S. in Engineering of Computing and Systems from COPPE/UFRJ and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from PUC/RJ, all these institutions are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and are some of the best universities in Brazil. She worked in the implementation of the State University of Roraima in the extreme north of Brazil, in 2006. She advised undergraduate students in scientific projects in UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro), where she win four prizes as co-advisor, working with Paulo Rogerio Sabini, two prizes in UERJ, one as best work of Mathematics, and other as one of three best work in the technological field, and she have two honorable mention in a national student’s projects presentations in the Jornadas de Inicação Científica organized by IMPA (National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics). She is member of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee since 2013, member of the SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Education Committee in 2016 and 2017, and co-organized the meetings Women in CG in SIGGRAPHand SIGGRAPH Asia Conferences, organized the meeting Girls in STEM in SIGGRAPH Asia in 2016 and 2017.  During the year 2016 to 2017 she was visiting faculty at University of Kansas. In the conference IEEE EDUCON irganized and was the moderator of the roundtable Women in Engineering: Issues and Perspectives in 2017 and in 2018 was panelist of the round table  Women in engineering: Addressing the gender gap, exploring trust and our unconscious bias and was the organizer and chair of the special session IDEE (Inclusion and Diversity in Engineering Education).

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Conference Contributions

Experiences
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Celebration of Latin America Presence in SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH 2023
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
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International Resources: CG in Brazil: “Encontro dos brasileiros” - Brazilian Meeting
SIGGRAPH 2022
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
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International Resources: CG in Latin America
SIGGRAPH 2022
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
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International Resources: Women in CG
SIGGRAPH 2022
[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]
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Computer Graphics in Latin America
SIGGRAPH 2020
[Birds of a Feather]
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Women in CG
SIGGRAPH 2020
[Birds of a Feather]
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Encontro dos Brasileiros - Brazilian Meeting
SIGGRAPH 2013
[Birds of a Feather]
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