Commitment

I put the project and the people before anything else. I only take on projects that I believe in and look for people I like to work with. Once I commit to a project, I often don't stop until it's ready. I encourage a similar commitment from the people I work with.

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Expertise

For years, I've worked as a researcher in a mixed environment where academy and corporate meet to solve real-world problems. This duality gave me strengths from both worlds, which are often valuable in a competitive and innovative market.

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Knowledge

Given my academic background, I love to teach and to guide people, and I love to work as a team. I am currently committed to contributing to my local academic community, by developing a platform that can support research on entity-oriented search.

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MAP-i PhD Student. Enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Computer Science of the Universities of Minho, Aveiro, and Porto (MAP-i).

Currently working towards my PhD thesis on "Graph-Based Entity-Oriented Search". Doing a lot of work based on hypergraphs and random walks, in order to create a joint representation model for text and knowledge and to provide a generalized approach to entity-oriented search tasks.

Software Engineer. Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering, from the University of Porto.

Fluent in multiple programming languages. Experienced with several software design patterns and programming paradigms. An architect of solutions that enable developers to bring out the best of them. Scala apologist, kanban practical user, and critical thinker.

Data Scientist. Works at FEUP InfoLab. Worked at Laboratório SAPO/U.Porto and CRACS/INESC TEC.

Participated in several data intensive projects, working with social network analysis, information retrieval, recommender systems, data mining, machine learning and data visualization. Check out Research for more information.

Published Author. Experienced in scientific and technical writing.

Published several peer-reviewed papers, in conference proceedings and journals. Wrote technical reports aimed at corporate, to convey research results. Presented research findings not only at conferences, via oral presentations, posters and demos, as well as at corporate headquarters, via oral presentations with Q&A.