Research experience

07/2015-11/2015 Research Grant

Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Development of a workplan on Signal Processing.

04/2015-07/2015 Internship

Undergraduate Internship Programme from CMU-Portugal Programme — CORAL group, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Development of a framework to address personalized assistance for dressing users, using Baxter as robotic platform.

01/2015-04/2015 Research Grant

Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Development of a workplan on Signal Processing.

10/2011-10/2012 Introduction to Research Grant

Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Bio-signals analysis and processing, algorithm development and validation (using MATLAB) in the scope of the diagnosis of respiratory pathologies.

Education

2016-present PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

2012-2014 MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Final average grade 17.2/20

Thesis: Hybrid Indoor Localization Based on Ranges and Video. Advisors: Prof. João Pedro Gomes & Prof. João Paulo Costeira

2009-2012 BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering

University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Final average grade 16.1/20

Events attended

08/2018
KDD 2018, London, United Kingdom. Participation and oral presentation at Workshop AI for Fashion.
07/2017
Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII) 2017, Vancouver, Canada. Participation and oral presentation.
10/2016
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2016, Kansas City, USA. Participation and oral presentation.
10/2015
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2015, Paris, France. Participation and oral presentation.
08/2015
Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII) 2015, Los Angeles, USA. Participation and oral presentation.
04/2015
40th ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing), Brisbane, Australia. Participation and oral presentation.
07/2014
2nd VISUM (VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence) summershcool, in FEUP, Porto, Portugal. Participation, presentation and discussion of the Master Dissertation work.
02/2014
SPIE Electronic Imaging 2014, San Francisco, USA. Participation and oral presentation.
10/2012
Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad) 2012, Coimbra, Portugal. Participation and poster presentation.

Awards

2012/2013
"Quadro de Mérito" Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/2014
"Quadro de Mérito" Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal