Francisco Braga is a PhD student at NOVA School of Science and Technology, working on Computer Music. Francisco obtained my Integrated Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico where he first got interested in these fields. He intends to focus on the use of emotion and structure in AI musical composition.
Alessandro Gambetti is a PhD Student of Human-Computer Interaction at the Nova School of Science and Technology in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, Lisbon, Portugal. He received an MSc in Finance from Nova SBE, majoring in Data and Business Analytics, and he holds a BSc in Economics & Finance from the Alma Mater Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. His research interests span from applied data science and machine learning in human-computer interaction, information systems, as well as healthcare.
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.
