Multilingual AI, built and evaluated.

I'm Brazilian, based in Miyazaki. I'm a geographer who works across languages — Portuguese, English, Japanese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese — and I've lived in Brazil, Japan, and Taiwan. My work has circled one thing the whole way: meaning, and the small ways it breaks between languages. That took me from translation desks to evaluating language models — writing rubrics, catching where meaning shifts — and to designing and shipping Hana, a bilingual AI assistant that ran in a real bar every night during its production window. It's also taking me back to where I started: the sea. My earliest research was on ocean governance and maritime disputes, and I'm now returning to it with a sharper question — how the values people hold for the ocean survive translation, and what gets lost when they don't. I care about the customer on the floor, the rubric on the page, and the instrument that measures what people actually value.