Gustavo Madeira Santana. Mentorship Program coordinator.

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Gustavo is a Ph.D. student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program and the Physics, Engineering and Biology Program at Yale University. He completed his undergraduate in Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, where he developed machine learning methods for studying vocal communication in rodents. He currently studies how fruit flies use spatiotemporal features of natural odor environments for optimal navigation, and how spatiotemporal correlations are encoded in the brain. Gustavo is passionate about mentoring and outreach.