Our history
It all started in 2022 when I was 17 years old and participated in the NASA Space Apps Challenge for the first time. We created a game that explains the variability of Cepheid stars. We won the local stage in Uberlândia and were named Global Nominees. After that, in 2023, Larissa Mello found my LinkedIn profile as the current champion of Uberlândia and invited me to join the Dust Trackers team. This time, we developed an AI prototype to detect mineral dust storms in advance in regions of North Africa—once again, we were named Global Nominees.
In 2024, I decided to form a stellar team with a very clear goal in mind: to be the first team from Uberlândia to make it to the top 40 finalists. The first recruit was Larissa, which required some convincing, but she eventually agreed. After her, we recruited Gustavo Ferreira, a standout programmer from our 2023 team. By June, we already had half of the team assembled. Then, Larissa recruited Ana Miziara for the project's creative department, Alailton as the technology leader, and finally, two weeks before the hackathon, I recruited Gustavo Antonio, a specialist in artificial intelligence development.
Today, looking at the results we achieved, I see that everything happened as it should, and all personalities fit together perfectly. To go far, we must work with complementary skills and aligned values!
In 2024, I decided to form a stellar team with a very clear goal in mind: to be the first team from Uberlândia to make it to the top 40 finalists. The first recruit was Larissa, which required some convincing, but she eventually agreed. After her, we recruited Gustavo Ferreira, a standout programmer from our 2023 team. By June, we already had half of the team assembled. Then, Larissa recruited Ana Miziara for the project's creative department, Alailton as the technology leader, and finally, two weeks before the hackathon, I recruited Gustavo Antonio, a specialist in artificial intelligence development.
Today, looking at the results we achieved, I see that everything happened as it should, and all personalities fit together perfectly. To go far, we must work with complementary skills and aligned values!
Gabriel Chayb
Executive Director
Gabriel Chayb, 20
Born in Uberlândia.
I have been participating in the NASA Space Apps Challenge since 2022, and in May 2024, I decided to assemble a team for the event that took place in October.
Ana Carolina Miziara, 23
Born Uberaba, Minas Gerais.
Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU).
Currently works at Neospace AI, conducting research in Artificial Intelligence.
In the project, she worked in areas related to artificial intelligence, including training and validating the neural network.
Gustavo Teixeira, 20
Born in Paracatu, Minas Gerais.
Information Systems student at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU).
Larissa Mello, 24
Born in Quirinópolis, Goiás.
Electrical Engineering student at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), with an emphasis on Power Electrical Systems.
Alailton Alves, 23
Born in Rio Paranaíba, Minas Gerais.
As a professional, he works in the areas of Electrical System Protection and Electrical Fault Diagnosis, with a focus on signal processing, intelligent algorithms, telecommunications, and virtualization of these systems.
He contributed to the technical solution of the project, both in data processing and in the development and definition of the topology of the neural network used.
Gustavo Ferreira, 24
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
Undergraduate student in Systems Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a former student of Biomedical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia, where they met other team members. Currently, a Development Trainee at a software company.
