About me...

Hey I’m Lucas. If you’re here, then we should definitely chat. Here’s what I’ve been up to:

• Completing my honours on robotic learning at UNSW under Prof. Midgley
• Veracity - Designing scalable trust infrastructure at PwC
• oNex - Scaling fitness to the whole world
• Capsol - Bringing dusty photos to life with vision language models
• Nowhere - Crowdsourcing real-time human location data
• Geophytes - Grassroots activism for displaced mining communities
• Technion Yom Ha’Atzmaut ‘25 hackthon winner
• UNIHACK ‘24 hackathon winner
• Scaled reusable coffee cups across Australia at Cercle

Publications

• Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. A New Incentive Model For Content Trust. arXiv:2507.09972 [Link]
• Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. Toward trustworthy content: the role of challengers, juries and veracity bonds in digital media platforms. Industrial Management & Data Systems [Link]

Bio

Growing up in Brazil, I got expelled from every school and it wasn’t until I watched The Social Network after moving to Sydney that I taught myself to code in PHP.

Despite being suspended twice and almost being asked to leave my high school, I worked hard to turn things around and got elected as house house captain by popular vote.

My maths teachers claimed I was too late to join the 4 Unit Maths class, so I topped the class until they had no choice but to let me enrol. Then I co-founded the school’s first Mathematics club alongside my friend Stefan teaching accelerated maths to the next generation of students.

Ended up studying Eng/CompSci at UNSW (hated Eng) and now fast-forward to 2025, and I’m working on buiding a consumer AI software company and seeking a path to scaling robotics and fusion.