Project team
Team
A project led by Sophia Oliveira Alves, with engineering mentorship from Marcos Moreira Alves.
Sophia Oliveira Alves
Project Lead · Student Researcher
Sophia Oliveira Alves is a student, an IEEE Student Member, and the founder and president of Feynman Clube. She combines interests in engineering, physics and artificial intelligence with leadership in educational initiatives. She contributed to the AI Pioneer Summit through web platform coordination and media production and serves on the logistics coordination team for IEEE CSBS 2026. At openflymind, she leads the project and develops the research with engineering mentorship, documenting its questions, decisions and experiments.
- Project Lead
- Feynman Clube Founder
- IEEE Student Member
Credentials and achievements
Each row names the public source consulted; the references are listed at the end of the page. Rows without a reference rely on information provided by the person themselves.
| Area | Credential | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Student leadership | Founder and President of Feynman Clube | |
| IEEE | IEEE Student Member | [R9][R18] |
| AI Pioneer Summit | Web Platform Coordinator and Media Producer | [R9] |
| IEEE CSBS 2026 | Logistics coordination | [R18] |
| NOIC | English Coordinator, AI educational content creator and media contributor | [R17] |
| OBA — Brazilian Astronomy and Astronautics Olympiad | Gold medals in 2020 and 2021 | [R17] |
| ONC — Brazilian National Science Olympiad | Gold medal in 2022 | [R17] |
| Singapore Math Challenge | Silver medal in 2023 | [R17] |
| Les Mathématiques Sans Frontières | Regional and national awards (year and category not specified in the source) | [R17] |
| Volunteering | Volunteer mathematics tutoring | [R17] |
| Complementary education | Two years in a Cambridge international curriculum | [R17] |
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Feynman Clube
Feynman Clube brings students closer to engineering through projects and experiments. Its culture of building, testing and sharing provides context for Sophia’s student leadership.
Collective activities the club presents as completed:
| Activity | Content |
|---|---|
| Popsicle-stick bridge | Structures and load testing |
| Tesla coil lab | Electromagnetism demonstration |
| Introduction to Arduino | Electronics, programming and prototyping |
These are activities of the club she founded and presides over, not evidence of individual authorship of each build.
AI Pioneer Summit and IEEE CSBS
At the AI Pioneer Summit, Sophia coordinated the web platform and produced media, as listed on the organizing committee page. At IEEE CSBS 2026 she serves on the logistics coordination team.
Marcos Moreira Alves
Engineering Mentor · IEEE Senior Member
Marcos Moreira Alves is an electrical engineer who graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in 1992, with more than 30 years of experience in technology, telecommunications, automation and artificial intelligence. He is the founder and CEO of Hal-AI, an IEEE Senior Member, and an IEEE Entrepreneurship Ambassador for Region 9. At openflymind, he provides engineering mentorship in computational architecture, electronic integration, robotic hardware development and experimental evaluation.
- Engineering Mentor
- IEEE Senior Member
- Electrical Engineering · UFJF
Credentials and achievements
Each row names the public source consulted; the references are listed at the end of the page. Rows without a reference rely on information provided by the person themselves.
| Area | Credential | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, 1992 | |
| Earlier qualification | Technology qualification in Data Processing, 1987 | |
| IEEE | IEEE Senior Member since 2025 | |
| IEEE Entrepreneurship | Region 9 Ambassador, Latin America and the Caribbean | [R9] |
| Scientific and technical organization | General Chair of the AI Pioneer Summit 2025 | [R9] |
| Artificial intelligence | Founder and CEO of Hal-AI | [R9] |
| Experience | More than 30 years in engineering, telecommunications, automation, software and AI | [R9] |
| Telecommunications | Experience in systems integration and contact center technologies, including Embratel/BrasilCenter | |
| IEEE Rising Stars LAC 2026 | Speaker, with project mentoring and evaluation activities, Quito, September 4–6, 2026 |
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IEEE Rising Stars LAC 2026: talk, mentoring and evaluation
At IEEE Rising Stars LAC 2026 in Quito, Marcos spoke and took part in mentoring and project evaluation activities with student teams. The same willingness to work alongside the people building things guides his role at openflymind.
Professional experience
Electrical engineer (UFJF, 1992) with an earlier qualification in Data Processing Technology (1987). Career in systems integration and contact center technologies, including Embratel/BrasilCenter, and more recently in artificial intelligence as founder and CEO of Hal-AI. These credentials describe the person; none of these organizations sponsors or endorses openflymind.
Sources
Public pages consulted for the roles and credentials on this page. Mentions of events or institutions describe each person's background, not an institutional affiliation with openflymind.
- [R9]AI Pioneer Summit — Organizing CommitteeProfiles of Sophia and Marcos; Portuguese version at https://www.aipioneersummit.com/comite-de-organizacao.
- [R10]Feynman Engineering & STEM ClubPublic content consulted, including projects and their status. Sophia’s role as founder and president was provided by the project founder, not taken from the website.
- [R11]Feynman Clube — InstagramChannel indicated by the founder; posts were not used as evidence.
- [R17]NOIC — Quem somosProfile of Sophia Oliveira Alves; educational activities and olympiad results reported by the institution.
- [R18]IEEE Computer Society — CSBSSophia's profile on the IEEE CSBS 2026 logistics coordination team and source of portrait S1.