João Guerra Martins
Carla Viegas
I am a passionate AI researcher and entrepreneur, interested in finding solutions for real-world problems. My experiences in academia and in the startup world enabled me to combine scientific methods with problem-oriented strategies to find solutions that bring value to society. I am a co-founder of TalkMeUp and have led the product and research development during my time as CTO. My experiences in academia helped me to identify cutting edge technology that can serve customers to improve their communication skills through automatic feedback. During my PhD journey, I have developed algorithms that can detect stress from facial expressions, enthusiasm in public speaking, and emotions combining attributes from gestures, facial expressions and vocal tonality.
Filipe Militão
Bernardo Toninho
I joined the CMU|Portugal program in the end of 2009 as a dual PhD student working with Prof. Frank Pfenning at CMU and Prof. LuÃs Caires at UNL. My PhD work was focused on the logical foundations of message-passing concurrent computation, based on a so-called propositions-as-types correspondence between logic and programming languages. After graduating in 2015, I was a Research Associate at Imperial College London, working with Prof. Nobuko Yoshida on the theory and practice of type-based concurrent programming. Since 2018 I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
