Pedro M. P. Curvo

Hello, everyone! I'm Pedro. I was born and raised in Portugal, in a village close to Spain. I moved to Lisbon when I was 17 and completed two bachelor's degrees, in Engineering Physics and Computer Science. I then moved to the U.S. to work on fusion reactors, where I collaborated with people from Madison and Princeton. The work I did was later used by Proxima Fusion, which you may know as the biggest startup in the field. Eventually, I moved to Amsterdam, where I worked on agents and published that work as a sole author at a NeurIPS workshop. I've also worked at a fintech unicorn handling between six and nine trillion transactions per year, where I developed an agentic framework for its anti-money-laundering system. Over the past year, I've worked on aerodynamics simulations, which were highlighted at CVPR, as well as generative models—specifically, how we can generate something from only a few new examples. For now, I'm a PhD candidate focusing on World Models.

Outside of research and work, I've enjoyed classical music since I was a kid; I guess five years of piano had some influence. I enjoy travelling, seeing new places, and, more importantly, trying new food. I must say I'm lucky because my girlfriend is as much of a foodie as I am, so we can always try twice as many dishes. On the slightly weird hobby side: I like assembling watches. I find the whole process—from ordering the parts to assembling them—somehow relaxing, even though it is arguably the opposite. I guess a new, controllable kind of stress is what it takes to make you forget the others for a while.

I like reading, and I don't love exercising, even though you can find me doing it daily for the sake of my health.