I am a doctoral student of the CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. in Robotics with the supervision of Dr. David Portugal (ISR-UC), Dr. Joao Filipe Ferreira (NTU-UK) and Dr. George Kantor (CMU-US). I received my Masters from University of Genova (UNIGE) in Robotics Engineering and my Bachelor’s from the University of South Florida.
John Mendonça is a Junior Researcher at the HLT (Human Language Technologies Laboratory) and a PhD Student in the Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST. He obtained his MSc degree in 2020 with the thesis “Automatic Detection of Profile Features”. In it, he applied speech processing techniques, more specifically in speaker recognition and paralinguistics, for the collection of crowdsourced and health-related datasets. More recently he joined a CMU Portugal Affiliate PhD Program under the MAIA project, a joint CMU/INESC-ID/IT/Unbabel collaboration for Intelligent AI Agents in chatbots. His PhD work is closely related to conversational quality estimation, having co-authored several peer-reviewed publications in this field.
I’m a Systems Researcher at INESC-ID with both a BSc and a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. During my MSc thesis we developed a tool that automatically parallelized software network functions, which piqued an interest in me and led me to do research in the networking field.
Eduard is a Ph.D. student in Informatics Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP). He graduated in Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). His recent research compares the performance of automated program repair (APR) tools in the context of security. His collaboration with CMU aims at reasoning software security in an automated style.
Finishing my MSc. in Informatics. My research interests mainly lie in Natural Language Understanding and Dialog State Tracking, and how these can establish genuine rapport between us and non-human agents.
I got a Bachelors’s degree in Computer Science from the Nova School of Science and Technology. While pursuing my Master’s I got introduced to machine learning and its uses for conversational chatbots, which I got interested in. During that period I was also invited to be part of a project on the subject of language generation. During my Ph.D., I hope to improve language generation approaches and to help break the human-machine gap on conversational agents.
Diogo is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FCT NOVA. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from FCT NOVA. His research interests lie in the areas of stochastic processes applied to computer and data science, wireless mobile networks, and network modelling.
