PhD Candidate in Information Science and Technology @ University of Coimbra (2014 - Present) Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT PhD Research Grant SFRH/BD/138749/2018 Thesis Topic: Research Problems in Data Quality: Imbalanced and Missing Data
Integrated Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering @ University of Coimbra (2009 - 2014) Specialization in Clinical Informatics and Bioinformatics Thesis Topic: A Decision Support System for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients
Work Experience
Researcher @ IPO-Porto Research Centre (CI-IPOP) (2018 - Present) Medical Physics, Radiobiology and Radiation Protection Group Projects:
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000027: "Earlystage cancer treatment, driven by context of molecular imaging (ESTIMA)"
FCT Research Grant SFRH/BD/138749/2018
Researcher @ Centre for Informatics and Systems, University of Coimbra (2015 - Present) Cognitive and Media Systems (CMS) Group Projects:
COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006715: "Preprocessing Clinical Data with Missing Values"
FCT Research Grant SFRH/BD/138749/2018
Researcher @ Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI) (Dec 2014 - Mar 2015) Centre of New Technologies for Medicine (CNTM) Projects:
FCT PTDC/SAUENB/119132/2010, "Optical modelling of the human retina in health and disease: from structure to function".
Summer internship hosted by Critical Health. Responsible for algorithm optimization for the detection of microanaeurysms in diabetic retinopathy (Retmarker Project).
Teaching Experience
Invited Assistant @ University of Coimbra (2019/2020)
Simulation and Scientific Computing:
Responsible for laboratory classes.
Introduction to Java Programming: Responsible for laboratory classes.
Invited Assistant @ Instituto Superior Miguel Torga (2015 - 2017)
Decision Support Systems:
Responsible for lectures and laboratory classes. Authored course materials, authored and graded assignments, exams and final projects.
User Interface Design:
Responsible for lectures and laboratory classes. Created new syllabus contents, authored course materials, authored and graded assignments, exams and final projects.
Web Programming:
Responsible for lectures and laboratory classes of the following modules: HTML5, CSS3, XML and JavaScript. Authored assigments ans exam exercises for the above-mentioned modules. Writing of final project proposals.
Seminars:
Responsible for the organisation of the curricular unit, lectures of Module 4 (Selected Topics in Pattern Recognition) and supervision of final projects.
Academic Advising
Master's Thesis (co-supervision)
Afonso José Ourives Marques da Costa (2019/2020) Handling Data Difficulty Factors via a Meta-Learning Approach
Adriana Fonseca Costa (2017/2018) A study on Missing Data: Handling missingness using Denoising Autoencoders
Cláudia Filipa Gaspar da Costa (2017/2018) Exploring Missing Data: A Visualization Approach
Reviewing Service
International Journals
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Expert Systems with Applications
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
IET Software
Connection Science
International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualisation
Conference Services
IDA 2021: 19th Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (Publicity Chair and Local Team)
AIME 2019: 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2019 (Reviewer)
IJCAI 2019: 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2019 (Reviewer)
MEIE 2019: Second International Conference on Mechanical, Electric and Industrial Engineering (Reviewer)
AIME 2017: 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2017 (Reviewer)
Program Committee Member
CBMS 2020: 33rd IEEE CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
EPIA 2020 - AIM Track: 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Track
CBMS 2019: 32nd IEEE CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
EPIA 2019 - BAAI Track: 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence Track
EPIA 2019 - AIM Track: 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Track
AITH 2018: 2018 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Technologies for Health
Meeting Attendance
3rd Conference of the Permanent Forum for Digital Skills - Porto, Portugal, March 3, 2020 (INCODE 2030)
2nd Workshop on Open Source Software for Mathematics - Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC), Portugal, July 3, 2019
Ciência 2018 - Science and Technology Meeting in Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal, July 3, 2018
2nd Experiment@ International Conference - exp.at'13, University of Coimbra, Portugal, September 18–20, 2013
5th Workshop on Biomedical Engineering, University of Lisboa, Portugal, April 20, 2013