Starting his computer science career in 2009, Lucas joined the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in Brazil, where he graduated from 5 years after, studing abroad at the University of Kansas during one of those years after being selected for a Science Without Borders program scholarship.
After a short period in the Mobile Games industry, Lucas returned to his studies at UFC, this time as a master student on the machine learning subject. One year after, Lucas joined Insight as a research assistant, quickly moving to a PhD student under Brian Davis’ and Manel Zarrouk’s supervision.