Afonso Lourenço has earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from FEUP. His research interests primarily focus on data stream mining, a field dedicated to extracting valuable insights from data that is continuously in flux.
Born in Brazil, I got a degree in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of BrasÃlia (UnB). However, I enjoyed the Computer Science part more than the others, especially the more mathematical side, so I decided to pursue a Masters’s in Computer Science at UnB. I chose to apply for the CMU/Portugal Ph.D. as the next step in my academic career and was fortunately accepted.
Since my Master’s Thesis, I have been researching program synthesis, the task of constructing a computer program based on a high-level description of what it should do. I will continue to explore this topic on my PhD: through program synthesis, I hope to find ways to help everyone easily and safely use a computer to automate daily tasks.
I graduated in Instituto Superior Técnico, where I have joined the local Capture-The-Flag (CTF) team called STT. Ever since, I have participated in many security competitions and have been dedicated to the field of computer security, first focused on cryptography and now on web analysis.
