I am Marcela Alves, a master degree student at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (ICMC).

I graduated with honor to the academic merit in Computer Science at Faculdade Farias Brito, in Fortaleza, Ceará, where I was a full scholarship holder of ProUni (Ministry of Education).

During elementary and high school I was a medalist in the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad of the Public Schools and the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad, which led me to take a summer course in the postgraduate mathematics department of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) when I was 14 years old.

In 2009, I started my studies in Computer Science. During the college period, I participated in two research projects: a Computer Graphics group and an Operational Research group. Parallel to the projects, I was a volunteer intern at the Microsoft Innovation Center - Fortaleza, where, along with a team, I specialized in Microsoft technologies. I was also a trainee for 2 years at Instituto Atlântico, an Research and Project company, where I was part of a Java development project for Sony smartphones and tablets.

In 2013, I went to study in the United States for the Science without Borders program. I studied at Arizona State University (ASU). During this time, I studied English at the American English and Culture Program. During the academic period, I started attending the research group Cosmology and Astrophysics Research with the Hubble Space Telescope that receives funding by NASA.

During the Summer Break period, I participated in a worldwide selection for the 2014 Wolfram Science Summer School (2014WSSS), a summer school sponsored by Dr. Stephen Wolfram in Massachusetts.

In 2015, I was one of the 10 women selected by the BrazilJS - Incentive for Women's Participation project, a community initiative by JavaScript in Brazil to encourage women's participation in the JavaScript community and participation in the largest JavaScript event in the World. As Google and CI&T (UN) Women Tech Challenge Honor Mentioned Winner (2015) I attended to the International Forum on Women in Business in Nairobi, Kenya.

I was a FamelLab 2018 Brazil semifinalist.

At the moment, I am a student of the last semester of master's degree at the University of São Paulo - Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computing (ICMC)