Jady Pamella

Aarhus, Denmark · PhD Fellow at Aarhus University

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AI Engineer Focused on Digital Twins and AI Safety

I build production AI you can trust, from LLMs and RAG to digital twins, so people can still tell what is real. My PhD at Aarhus University is on digital twins for district cooling, checking that critical infrastructure runs as it was designed.

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I am an AI Engineer who builds AI systems people can trust. For twelve years I have shipped production AI across finance, government, and climate tech, from LLM platforms and RAG pipelines to computer vision. My research focus is digital twins for district cooling: at Aarhus University I work on locating faults in cooling networks where sensors are sparse, on testing the fault monitors a digital twin relies on, and on bringing building models into digital twin platforms. It is the same question that drives my work on AI Safety: can you trust what the machine says is real?

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Based in Aarhus, Denmark. With 12 years of experience across finance, government, and climate tech, I’ve built my career from software development to engineering leadership, shipping AI systems at scale and managing teams and budgets in complex environments.

I believe in technology as a force for meaningful change, whether verifying what is real, securing critical infrastructure, or building climate-tech solutions that support a more resilient future.

  1. 2026 to PresentPhD Fellow, Aarhus UniversitySWiM project, funded by the Grundfos Foundation: verifying that district cooling installations run as they were designed, with BIM, AI and digital twins.
  2. 2024 to PresentCo-Founder, Tree++Tree-planting initiative with 1,000+ trees planted across 10 countries.
  3. 2016 to 2024IT Manager, Bank of BrasíliaManaged USD 1M+ budgets and led AI, automation, and governance initiatives.
  4. Defended May 2026Dual Master's DegreesComputer Science (Stockholm) and Cybersecurity (Brasília).
  5. 2024Swedish Institute ScholarAwarded for outstanding global professional impact.

Featured Work

Research · Product · Security · Climate

Digital Twins for District Cooling (SWiM) logo

Digital Twins · BIM · Formal Verification · Critical Infrastructure

Digital Twins for District Cooling (SWiM)

PhD Research, Aarhus University

District cooling keeps buildings such as hospitals and data centres running in hot, dense cities, and small faults can waste energy for a long time before anyone notices.

Result In progress since August 2026.

How It Was Built

PhD Fellow in the Software Engineering and Computing Systems section, supervised by Peter Gorm Larsen and Carl Peter Leslie Schultz. Part of SWiM, Sustainable Water-based Cooling in Megacities, a five-year project funded by the Grundfos Foundation with partners in Denmark and Singapore.

  • Start each digital twin from the building model (BIM) of the installation.
  • Run the twins on the Digital Twin as a Service platform.
  • Keep AI support verifiable, so operators can rely on what it tells them.
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FactOrFakeAI logo

Python · Generative AI · Content Authenticity · AI Literacy

FactOrFakeAI

AI Literacy and Content Authenticity

People can no longer easily tell real images, videos and claims from AI-generated ones.

Result Educational posts on Instagram and TikTok as @factororfakeai.

How It Was Built

Creator. I run the account and the content pipeline behind it.

  • Every claim is fabricated by an invented outlet and published together with its reveal, never attributed to a real outlet.
  • Generated images never depict a real person.
  • One generation interface in front of the image models, so the models can change without changing the pipeline.
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LabRisk logo

Cybersecurity · CIS Controls · Risk Management · Open Data

LabRisk

Cybersecurity and Risk Lab, University of Brasília

Brazilian public bodies, courts included, need cybersecurity frameworks fitted to their own risks.

Result Paper published in Computers and Security, Elsevier, 2025, with the open dataset on IEEE DataPort.

How It Was Built

Cybersecurity Research Engineer since August 2024.

  • Extend the CIS Controls with additional controls for the judiciary.
  • Publish the assessed controls as an open dataset, so the analysis can be reproduced and reused.
LabRisk Read the Paper Dataset
Tree++ logo

Volunteering · Reforestation · Community

Tree++

Impact and Philanthropy

Planting trees needs people on the ground, and people who want to help rarely know where to start.

Result 1,000+ trees planted across 10 countries.

Visit Tree++

More Projects

  • SoiQet

    LLM-Powered Social Media Platform

    Details

    RAG-based AI platform integrating 6 social networks for content managers at small businesses and influencers. Prototyped on Lovable, migrated to production on GCP with prompt engineering to optimize LLM outputs across all networks.

    Visit SoiQet

  • Alla Ska Få Mat

    Social Impact Initiative

    Details

    Community project in Sweden that organizes donations, volunteers, and communication to support families facing food insecurity, using digital tools for coordination and outreach.

    Visit Alla Ska Få Mat

  • AI Audit and Security Advisory

    Independent Consulting Engagement (AI-Powered Consumer Product, Anonymised by NDA)

    Details

    Delivered a 60-page technical audit (Decision Summary + Executive Report + Technical Report) of an AI-powered consumer product MVP. Identified critical data exposure (20 of 21 Supabase tables without Row Level Security, verified with a real exploit using only the public API key), 29 missing AI and security guardrails, and AI cost runaway risk in unbounded chat history. Delivered product strategy reframe and 8-week prioritised roadmap.

  • Infosfera

    Freelance Web Development for Public-Sector Information Award (LabRisk/UnB + Infojus/UFPR)

    Details

    Built and delivered the official website for the Prêmio Infosfera de Boas Práticas em Gestão da Informação na Esfera Pública, a Brazilian award partnership between LabRisk (UnB) and Infojus (UFPR). Full site delivery: hero, award rules, evaluation criteria, application flow, publication calendar, and timeline pages. Closed engagement, delivered March 2026.

  • IBEPES

    Freelance, Custom WordPress Theme for Brazilian Social Research Institute

    Details

    Designed and shipped a custom WordPress theme for the Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas Sociais (IBEPES). Full custom theme architecture, content modelling, and deployment. Closed freelance engagement.

  • Insphas

    Digital Transformation for Mental Health Institute

    Details

    Volunteer IT leadership for Insphas Institute of Psychology, modernizing digital presence and infrastructure, including websites, content, and communication flows for mental health services.

    Visit Insphas

Events

Hands-on experience across the full event lifecycle: shipping under time pressure as a competitor, building the operational backbone as an organizer, evaluating projects as a judge, and supporting teams as a mentor.

  • EpiMinds Google AI Hackathon2026

    1st place. SU Heroes team leader. Built a multi-agent crisis-response system in under 24 hours.

    Stockholm

  • Kong AI-Assisted Coding Hackathon2025

    1st place. Agentic-coding track.

    Stockholm

  • Kolomolo AI-Assisted Coding Hackathon2025

    1st place. AI-coding pairing track.

    Stockholm

  • Drivhuset Impact Cup2025

    Tree++ entry. Pitched the volunteer tree-planting initiative to founders, mentors, and impact-investor judges.

    Stockholm

  • DevOpsDays Brasília4 editions

    Co-organizer across four editions. ~250 participants per edition, 30+ speakers per edition, ~1,000 total attendees. Owned speaker coordination, schedule, A/V logistics, online streaming setup, and sponsor coordination. Developed partnerships with industry and academia and curated DevSecOps and AI/ML content.

    Brasília, Brazil

  • Drivhuset Ideathon2025

    Co-organizer in partnership with the Drivhuset incubator network in Stockholm. Owned format design, applicant selection, mentor pairing, and judge coordination. The event surfaced new climate-tech and AI ventures inside the Stockholm student-founder community.

    Stockholm

  • Apart Research Global South AI Safety Hackathon2026

    Judge on the Global Track. Primary track: Technical AI Safety. Secondary: AI Governance and AI Security. Reviewed projects spanning Latin America, Africa, and Asia hubs against the official Apart Sprint rubric (Impact, Execution, Presentation, 1-5 scale).

    Remote, partner orgs: Electric Sheep + Schmidt Sciences

  • IRC-KDU 2026 Conference2026

    Paper reviewer for the conference programme.

    Remote

  • Nordic Tech Week, "New Tech, Old Rules" Panel2026

    Talk on AI safety and cybersecurity, built around one question: how do you prove that you are you once a face, a voice, a document and a video call can all be generated? Shown as a recorded talk at an event with 200 registered attendees and a waitlist, alongside Dr. Vijeta Sharma (RISE) and Jakub Kreft.

    Stockholm, 8 September 2026, event page

    Event Page
  • PPEE Seginfo Summit, University of Brasília2024

    Seminar talk "From Defense to Attack: How AI Is Redefining Cybersecurity" (in Portuguese), at the summit on challenges and solutions in privacy and security, as part of the LabRisk project.

    Brasília, Brazil

  • Hack for the Futures2026

    Mentor supporting student and early-career teams on AI and tech-for-good projects. Guidance on technical scoping, prototyping under time pressure, and pitching to judges.

    hackforthefutures.org

    hackforthefutures.org

Publications

7 Works, 2024 to 2026

  1. Cybersecurity Challenges: An Analysis of the Brazilian Public Administration

    Revista Tecnologia e Sociedade (UTFPR) | 2026 | Published in Portuguese | DOI: 10.3895/rts.v22n69.20157

    Summary

    Peer-reviewed study identifying the main cybersecurity governance challenges faced by the Brazilian public administration, from the perspective of managers and specialists in the field.

    Read the Paper

  2. Automated Detection of Safe Landing Locations in Below-Canopy Forest Conditions

    MSc Thesis, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University | with Deep Forestry AB | Supervisor: Prof. Rahim Rahmani | 2026

    Summary

    Master's thesis on finding where a drone can safely land under the forest canopy, from sensor data collected in real stands. Written inside an industrial research project and defended at DSV.

  3. An Information Security Control Baseline to Mitigate Business Risk in the Sanitation Sector

    Professional Master's Dissertation, PPEE, University of Brasilia | record PPEE.DM-124/2026 | Supervisor: Prof. Rafael Rabelo Nunes | 2026

    Summary

    Dissertation proposing a baseline of information security controls for water and sanitation utilities, built from the business risks the sector actually carries rather than from a generic framework.

  4. Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Judiciary: Integrating Additional Controls into the CIS Framework

    Computers and Security (Elsevier) | 2025 | DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2025.104584

    Summary

    Co-authored peer-reviewed study proposing an expanded CIS cybersecurity model for digital protection across the Brazilian judiciary.

    Read the Paper

  5. Security Controls for Judiciary Risk Management

    Dataset, IEEE DataPort | 2025 | DOI: 10.21227/h9q6-sv58

    Summary

    Open dataset of the security controls assessed in the judiciary study, published so the analysis behind the Computers and Security paper can be reproduced and reused.

    View the Dataset

  6. Cybersecurity Protection in the Brazilian Judiciary: A Comparative Study of State Court Security Structures

    NAVUS Journal of Technology and Management | 2024 | Published in Portuguese | DOI: 10.22279/navus.v14.2032

    Summary

    Research analyzing cybersecurity maturity and structural gaps in state courts across Brazil. Provides recommendations on governance, risk, and compliance to strengthen digital resilience.

    Read the Paper

  7. Critical Infrastructure Under Threat: Business Risks for Cybersecurity in Metropolitan Transport Systems

    ENANGRAD 2025, Brazilian National Meeting of Administration Programs | Technology, AI and Digital Transformation Track | Published in Portuguese

    Summary

    Peer-reviewed conference paper on cybersecurity business risk in metropolitan transport systems. Examines operational and governance exposures in critical-infrastructure environments and the controls needed to mitigate them.

Experience

  1. PhD Fellow, Digital Twins for District Cooling (SWiM)

    Aarhus University

    2026 to Present | Aarhus, Denmark

    Verifying that district cooling installations are commissioned as they were designed, combining Building Information Modelling, AI and digital twins.

    Details
    • Part of SWiM, funded by the Grundfos Foundation, supervised by Peter Gorm Larsen and Carl Peter Leslie Schultz, at the intersection of AI safety, cybersecurity, and critical-infrastructure resilience.

  2. Founder and CEO

    SoiQet

    2025 to Present | Aarhus, Denmark

    Founded SoiQet, an LLM-powered platform integrating 6 social networks for content managers at small businesses and influencers: RAG-based AI content generation, scheduling, and analytics on GCP.

    Details
    • Prototyped full product on Lovable, then migrated to production on GCP (Python, Node.js, Supabase, React), applying prompt engineering to optimize LLM outputs for content quality across all integrated networks.
    • Own product vision, engineering, and go-to-market as Head of Engineering and CEO, from early validation through platform growth.

  3. AI Research Engineer

    Deep Forestry AB

    Dec 2025 to Jun 2026 | Uppsala, Sweden

    MSc thesis: designed and evaluated a hybrid geometric-neural pipeline for real-time autonomous landing zone detection in below-canopy forests using LiDAR point clouds (RANSAC, PointNet, PointNet++, DGCNN).

    Details
    • Achieved 29x latency reduction (5.8s to 200ms) through KD-Tree and voxel-downsampling optimizations on real forest flight data collected with Deep Forestry's autonomous drone platform.
    • deepforestry.com

  4. Co-Founder

    Tree++

    2024 to Present | Stockholm, Sweden

    Tree-planting initiative with 1,000+ trees planted across 10 countries.

  5. IT Analyst and DevOps Engineer

    Bank of Brasília (BRB)

    2014 to 2016, 2024 to Present | Brasília, Brazil

    Built a production AI chatbot (Python, TensorFlow, NLP) during a Silicon Valley engagement that cut customer response time by 40% for 100K+ users.

    Details
    • Led system design and implementation of DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes, reducing deployment time by 60%.
    • Built Power BI dashboards for the C-suite and maintained compliance with BACEN and GDPR-equivalent data protection standards.
    • Partnered directly with the CIO, CFO, and COO to align IT delivery, compliance, and investment priorities with business goals.

  6. IT Manager

    Bank of Brasília (BRB)

    2016 to 2024 | Brasília, Brazil

    Managed a $1M+ IT budget with full P&L accountability, reducing operating costs by 15% and generating $150K+ in savings through vendor renegotiation and contract restructuring.

    Details
    • Led a team of 10+ IT professionals across hiring, performance reviews, OKR planning, career development, and adoption of COBIT, ITIL, Agile, and Lean IT practices.
    • Redesigned Change and Configuration Management processes, improving compliance and audit accuracy by 40% and lowering regulatory exposure.
    • Led Lean IT and DevSecOps transformation efforts that reduced operational waste by 20% and improved execution standards across the department.
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  1. Volunteer and Web Developer

    Alla Ska Få Mat

    Built and maintain the website for a nonprofit that distributes weekly meals to vulnerable families and homeless individuals in Stockholm. Also support volunteer operations on the ground.

    Details

  2. Volunteer Frontend Developer

    Ge Effektivt (Stiftelsen Effekt)

    2026

    Contributed mobile layout fixes to geeffektivt.se (Next.js + Sanity CMS, multi-country effective-altruism donation platform): replaced overflow:scroll with overflow-x:hidden on the mobile navbar, published a --cookie-banner-height CSS custom property via ResizeObserver to dynamically reposition the floating Give button above the cookie banner, restored fixed-bottom mobile button group with 2rem footer margin. Reviewed and approved by the in-house designer.

    Details

  3. Research Engineer

    Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT)

    2022 | Brasília, Brazil

    Customized Archivematica for Kubernetes and OpenShift deployment, enabling scalable digital preservation infrastructure for government agencies managing millions of digital assets.

    Details
    • Supported national initiatives in knowledge management, data governance, and digital transformation for public sector with improved automation workflows.

  4. Software Engineer

    Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MCID)

    2014 | Brasília, Brazil

    Modernized legacy PHP and MySQL systems improving scalability, maintainability, and performance for national integration services.

    Details
    • Developed responsive web and mobile applications increasing citizen access to government digital services and platforms.

  5. Web Developer and Designer

    National Industrial Training Service (SENAI)

    2008 to 2010 | Brasília, Brazil

    Developed e-learning platforms supporting 2,000+ students with interactive learning modules, progress tracking, and assessment tools.

    Details
    • Built PHP and MySQL systems for statewide education programs, optimized UX for digital curriculum delivery and multi-device access.

  6. Team Leader

    SU Heroes, Hackathon Team

    Lead multidisciplinary teams building applied AI automation and agentic AI systems, mentor students and engineers in AI/ML, cloud architecture, and rapid prototyping.

    Details
    • Hackathon results are listed under Events.

  7. Teaching Assistant, Internet of Things

    Stockholm University

    2024 to 2026 | Stockholm, Sweden

    Support 200+ students in IoT coursework: Python programming, sensor integration (MQTT), edge computing, and data processing pipelines.

  8. Student Ambassador

    Drivhuset Stockholm

    2024 to 2026 | Stockholm, Sweden

    Support founders and students in entrepreneurship programs, mentor on technology strategy and product development, promote innovation activities across Stockholm University.

Education

  1. PhD Fellow, Digital Twins for District Cooling (SWiM)

    Aarhus University

    2026 to Present | Aarhus, Denmark

    SWiM project, funded by the Grundfos Foundation.

    Details
    • Supervised by Peter Gorm Larsen and Carl Peter Leslie Schultz.

  2. Master of Science in Computer and Systems Sciences (AI and IoT)

    Stockholm University

    Completed 2026 | Stockholm, Sweden

    Specialization: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, IoT Systems, Autonomous Systems.

    Details
    • MSc thesis in collaboration with Deep Forestry: hybrid geometric-neural pipeline for real-time autonomous landing zone detection in below-canopy forests using LiDAR point clouds.
    • Student Ambassador at Drivhuset Stockholm, Teaching Assistant in Internet of Things (IoT).
    • Member of the Network for Global Professionals (NFGP) by the Swedish Institute.

  3. Professional Master's in Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity Area (PPEE)

    University of Brasília (UnB)

    Completed May 2026 | Brasília, Brazil

    Specialization: Risk management, AI for cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, and security governance frameworks.

    Details

  4. BSc in Information Systems

    Faculdades Integradas UPIS

    Focus: Algorithms, data structures, software engineering, database systems, and technology entrepreneurship fundamentals.

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  1. Designing and Building AI Products

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    Specialization: 40-hour executive program on AI product development, deployment strategies, and scaling ML systems in production environments.

  2. MBA in Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

    Descomplica

    Focus: Business model innovation, technology strategy, startup development, and lean startup methodology.

  3. Postgraduate in Data Analysis

    Descomplica

    Focus: Statistical modeling, machine learning algorithms, predictive analytics, data visualization, and business intelligence.

  4. MBA in Project Management

    Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)

    Specialization: Agile methodologies, Scrum, PMBOK, risk management, stakeholder management, and change management for IT project delivery.

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Leadership

  • EA Sweden Fellowship, Effective Altruism (2026)
  • Women's Leadership Program (SOUL, 2024)
  • Self-Leadership Program (Hyper Island and Swedish Institute, 2024)
  • Collaborative Approaches to Societal Issues (Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, 2024)

AI and Data

  • BlueDot Impact AI Safety Fellowship, AGI Strategy (2026)
  • BlueDot Impact AI Safety Fellowship, Technical AI Safety (2026)
  • Business Intelligence Foundation (Certiprof, 2024)
  • Data Analysis (ENAP, 2023)
  • Designing and Building AI Products (MIT, 2022)

IT Governance

  • DevOps Master (EXIN, 2020)
  • Lean IT Foundation (EXIN, 2019)
  • COBIT 5 Foundation (ISACA, 2015)
  • ITIL V3 Foundation (EXIN, 2015)

Agile and Process

  • Lean Six Sigma White Belt (Certiprof, 2024)
  • Scrum Foundation (Certiprof, 2019)

Language

  • TOEFL iBT (ETS, 2024)

Skills

Focus Areas

  • AI Safety
  • Trustworthy and Verifiable AI
  • Digital Twins
  • Cybersecurity
  • Critical-Infrastructure Resilience
  • AI Engineering

PhD and Research

  • Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • Formal Verification
  • Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS)
  • District Cooling Systems
  • LiDAR Perception
  • Point-Cloud Deep Learning (PointNet, PointNet++, DGCNN)
  • Edge Inference (NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX)
  • Evaluation Harnesses

AI and Machine Learning

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • Scikit-Learn
  • Hugging Face
  • LLMs and Generative AI
  • LLM Fine-Tuning
  • RAG
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Structured Outputs
  • Computer Vision
  • NLP
  • Deep Learning and CNNs
  • MLOps and Model Deployment

Cybersecurity and Governance

  • CIS Controls
  • NIST
  • GDPR
  • Risk Management
  • Compliance and Audit
  • COBIT
  • ITIL
  • CMDB and ITSM
  • Lean IT
  • PMBOK
  • DevSecOps

Programming

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • Java
  • PHP
  • Bash
  • R
  • Groovy

Data Engineering

  • Apache Spark and PySpark
  • Hadoop
  • Airflow
  • Kafka
  • ETL Pipelines
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Power BI
  • Data Warehousing

Cloud and DevOps

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • OpenShift
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD
  • Observability (Grafana)
  • Supabase

Architecture

  • System Design
  • Platform Engineering
  • Multi-Tenant SaaS
  • Microservices
  • REST and GraphQL APIs
  • OAuth
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Distributed Systems
  • IoT Integration

Leadership

  • Technology Strategy
  • Team Leadership (10+ Engineers)
  • P&L Management ($1M+)
  • OKR Planning and Execution
  • Technical Hiring
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Change Management
  • Vendor Management

Languages

  • Portuguese (Native)
  • English (C1, TOEFL 101/120)
  • Spanish (B1)
  • Swedish (Beginner)
  • Danish (Beginner)

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