About me...

Hey I’m Lucas. If you’re here, then we should definitely chat. Here’s what I’ve been up to:

• VLA-RLX - Completing my honours on deep learning for robotics at UNSW under Prof. W. Midgley
• Veracity - Designing scalable trust infrastructure at PwC
• oNex - Scaling fitness to the whole world
• Capsol - Bringing dusty photos to life with vision language models
• Nowhere - Crowdsourcing real-time human location data
• Geophytes - Grassroots activism for displaced mining communities
• Technion Yom Ha’Atzmaut ‘25 hackthon winner
• UNIHACK ‘24 hackathon winner
• Scaled reusable coffee cups across Australia at Cercle

Publications

• Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. A New Incentive Model For Content Trust. arXiv:2507.09972 [Link]
• Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. Toward trustworthy content: the role of challengers, juries and veracity bonds in digital media platforms. Industrial Management & Data Systems [Link]

Bio

I grew up in Brazil, got expelled from every school, moved to Sydney, watched The Social Network, and taught myself to code PHP. I turned it around, was elected house captain, forced my way into 4-Unit Maths by topping all my classes, then co-founded the school’s first maths club with my friend Stefan to teach accelerated content to the next generation of students.

Studying Eng/CompSci at UNSW (only place that offered it) and now fast-forward to 2025, I’m working on building a consumer AI software company and seeking a path to scaling robotics and fusion.