I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Carnegie Mellon Portugal affiliated Ph.D. (CMU Portugal) program in the Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PDEEC), at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, and a researcher at INESC-TEC in the Center for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER).
Shuhao Ma
Now I am an HCI design researcher at ITI, LARSyS. Before joining the CMU Portugal program, I got my master degree in design at Tongji University and experienced multiple digital projects (Social media, social innovation and sustainability, etc.) with my interaction design skills in China. My current research is triggered by digital technologies, HCI, sustainability, and multi-disciplinary practices. I appreciated the opportunity and am glad to meet the fabulous network.
Ricardo Brancas
My research focuses on helping programmers and non-programmers on their daily tasks, by leveraging Program Synthesis and Program Repair techniques. Some of my other research interests include Formal Methods and Compilers.
Maria Eduarda Andrada
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
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.
Francisco Pereira
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 Pinconschi
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.
Diogo Tavares
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.
Diogo Silva
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.