I hold a MSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IST, focused in Artificial Intelligence. During my MSc thesis I’ve worked on Neural Information Retrieval, applied to the Geographic domain and I will pursue my Ph.D. focusing on Neural Information Retrieval.
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.
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.
