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Research topics: Trustworthy Machine Learning; Interpretable Machine Learning for Healthcare; Trustworthy models for 3D point clouds; Robust Machine Learning for Space Debris; Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y9CArh4AAAAJ Claudia Soares received a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, as well as a Diploma in modern languages and literature from Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2021 she is a researcher with NOVALINCS and an Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal. Her research focuses on using optimization, physics, and probability theory to develop trustworthy machine learning models and algorithms for various applications, including environmental monitoring with 3D point clouds, trustworthy healthcare applications, and space. PhD supervision experience Prof. Soares has experience supervising and co-supervising Ph.D. students and collaborating with industry partners such as Epic Games, CUF Health, GMV, and Neuraspace, as well as international researchers from institutions like Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Milan, the University of Novi Sad, and Washington University. Successful PhD graduates include Filipa Valdeira, Assistant Researcher in the Tenure Track, Stevo Rackovic, who submitted a PhD thesis for an industrial PhD with Epic Games, and Pedro Valdeira with the CMU-Portugal dual degree, starting a Post-Doc in industry. Main projects: 1. Coordinator. (2025-2026) HyCARE - HyCARE: Hybrid Clinical Decision Support System Integrating Rule-based and Machine Learning Approaches (FCT,I.P. €120,439.04) 2. Coordinator. (2022-2023) MD2TRUST - Trustworthy data science for improving healthcare efficiency: the case of the medical referral process (FCT,I.P. CMU Portugal €69,046.70) 3. Local coordinator. (2018-2022) H2020-MSCA-ITN BIGMATH: BIG data challenges for MATHematics (EU €1,747,505.16) 4. Co-Principal investigator (2019-2021) Identifying and Predicting Emergency Admissions (FCT.I.P. Data Science for the Public Administration €283,103.75) 5. Local coordinator. (2022-2025) Artificial Intelligence Fights Space Debris (EU PRR total: €24,395,404.00 local: €736,000.00) Selected publications: 1. Caldas, F. M., Soares, C. (2022). A Temporal Fusion Transformer for Long-term Explainable Prediction of Emergency Department Overcrowding. In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (pp. 71-88). Grenoble. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 2. Rackovic, Stevo, Dušan Jakovetic, Cláudia Soares (2024). "Refined Inverse Rigging: A Balanced Approach to High-fidelity Blendshape Animation." SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Papers. 3. Metelo, Frederico, Soares, Claudia, Rackovic, Stevo, Costa, Pedro, (2024) "PeersimGym: An Environment for Solving the Task Offloading Problem with Reinforcement Learning." Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 4. Valdeira, P., Xavier, J., Soares, C., Chi, Y. (2025). Communication-efficient vertical federated learning via compressed error feedback. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 5. Caldas, Francisco; Soares, Claudia, (2024) Machine Learning in Orbit Estimation: a Survey, Acta Astronautica. 6. Valdeira, F. M., Ferreira, R., Micheletti, A., Soares, C. (2023). Probabilistic Registration for Gaussian Process Three-Dimensional Shape Modelling in the Presence of Extensive Missing Data. SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 5(2), 502-527. 7. Rackovic, S., Soares, C., Jakovetic, D. (2023). Distributed Solution of the Blendshape Rig Inversion Problem. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Technical Communications (pp. 1-4). Sidney. Selected to appear in ACM Kudos (https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1145%25252F3610543.3626166/reader)
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
CLÁUDIA ALEXANDRA MAGALHÃES SOARES

Citation names

  • Soares, Claudia
  • Soares, Cláudia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
691E-996A-BEA8
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3071-6627
Google Scholar ID
Y9CArh4AAAAJ

Email addresses

  • claudia.soares@fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • NOVA LINCS, Department of Computer Science, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Almada, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Information Science
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Automation and Control Systems
  • Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Aerospace Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011/04/01 - 2016/05/02
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Distributed and robust network localization algorithms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with Distinction and Honor (distinção e louvor)
2007
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado)
Major in Major: Sistemas, Decisão e Controlo; Minor: Computadores
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Automatic Word Recognition with Anthropomorphic Models for Speech Synthesis: Applications to Humanoid Robotics. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2007
Concluded
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 16/20
2000
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas - Estudos Portugueses (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 14/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/03 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2021/01/17 Contracted Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Postdoc (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/03/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/12/06 - 2021/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2018/02/16 - 2021/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/01/01 - 2010/06/30 Software Engineer SISCOG, Sistemas Cognitivos, Portugal
2007/09/03 - 2008/12/29 CAD Engineer Synopsys Inc, United States
2000/06/01 - 2006/06/01 Copywriter Entrepreneur self-employed, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/04 - 2015/11 SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR SENSOR NETWORKS
31099DFA
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/02/01 - 2026/01/31 HyCARE: Hybrid Clinical Decision Support System Integrating Rule-based and Machine Learning Approaches
2024.07361.IACDC
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 TaRDIS: Trustworthy and Resilient Decentralised Intelligence for Edge Systems
Horizon2020 Contract ID: 101093006
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/04/05 - 2025/04/04 Artificial Intelligence Fights Space Debris
C626449889-0046305
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
2022/04/01 - 2025/03/31 Sustainable Stone by Portugal
C644943391-00000051/40
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
2022/12/12 - 2023/04/30 TRUST-DL - Trustworthy Deep Learning: Opening the black-box
FCT/CPCA-IAC/2022/01
CPCA-IAC/AV/478816/2022
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/02/01 - 2023/04/30 MD2TRUST - Trustworthy data science for improving healthcare efficiency: the case of the medical referral process
CMU/TIC/0016/2021
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 RELIABLE - REaL tIme dAshboard on BuiLdings occupants risk during extreme weather Events
DSAIPA/DS/0111/2019
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos em Inovação Tecnologia e Políticas de Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/04/01 - 2022/09/30 H2020-MSCA-ITN BIGMATH: BIG data challenges for MATHematics
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/812912/EU
Principal investigator
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Identifying and Predicting Emergency Admissions
DSAIPA/AI/0087/2018
DSAIPA/AI/ 0087/2018
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

SPMS Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde EPE, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/01/31 RIA H2020-ICT-2018 AI4EU A European AI On Demand Platform and Ecosystem
825619
825619
Researcher
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems
UID/EEA/50009/2019
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/05/03 - 2019/09/30 ANI P2020 LISBOA-01-0247- FEDER-017906 Smart City Sense
LISBOA-01-0247- FEDER-017906
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Thales Portugal, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Ferreira, Ricardo; Soares, Claudia; GUIMARÃES, MARTA. "Probability of Collision of satellites and space debris for short-term encounters: Rederivation and fast-to-compute upper and lower bounds". Paper presented in 74th International Astronautical Congress, 2023.
    Published
  2. Joao Casal da Veiga; Han, Qiwei; Soares, Claudia. "Understanding the Primary-Specialty Referral Mechanism using Network Science". 2019.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Ferreira, Ricardo; GUIMARÃES, MARTA; Valdeira, Filipa; Soares, Claudia. "One-Shot Initial Orbit Determination in Low-Earth Orbit". Paper presented in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Rackovic, Stevo; Soares, Cláudia; Jakovetic, Dusan. "Distributed Solution of the Blendshape Rig Inversion Problem". Paper presented in SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Technical Communications, Sydney, 2023.
    Published • 10.1145/3610543.3626166
  3. Caldas, Francisco M.; Soares, Cláudia. "A Temporal Fusion Transformer for Long-Term Explainable Prediction of Emergency Department Overcrowding". Paper presented in Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Proceedings, Grenoble, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-23618-1_5
  4. Stevo Rackovic; Claudia Soares; Dusan Jakovetic; Zoranka Desnica; Relja Ljubobratovic. "Clustering of the Blendshape Facial Model". Paper presented in 29th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2021, Dublin, 2021.
    Published • 10.23919/EUSIPCO54536.2021.9616061
  5. Soares, C.; Gomes, J.. "Fast distributed MAP inference for large-scale graphical models". Paper presented in IEEE EUROCON 2019-18th International Conference on Smart Technologies, Novi Sad, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861615
  6. Costa, Gabriel; Soares, Claudia; Marques, Manuel. "Finding common image semantics for urban perceived safety based on pairwise comparisons". Paper presented in 2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), A Coruña, 2019.
    Published • 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8903115
  7. Soares, C.; Xavier, J.. "Locating a target from uncertain data: Convex supersets based on linear-fractional representations". Paper presented in IEEE EUROCON 2019-18th International Conference on Smart Technologies, Novi Sad, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861977
  8. Claudia Soares; Joao Gomes. "Parameter-free network localization for mobile vehicles by learning from data". Paper presented in 2018 Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference (UComms), Lerici, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/ucomms.2018.8493177
  9. Soares, C.; Ji, P.; Gomes, J.; Pascoal, A.. "DIeSEL: Distributed self-localization of a network of underwater vehicles". Paper presented in 2017 IEEE OCEANS-Anchorage, 2017.
    Published
  10. Beatriz Quintino Ferreira; Joao Gomes; Claudia Soares; Joao P. Costeira. "Collaborative localization of vehicle formations based on ranges and bearings". Paper presented in 2016 IEEE Third Underwater Communications and Networking Conference (UComms), Lerici, 2016.
    Published • 10.1109/UComms.2016.7583426
  11. Soares, Claudia; Xavier, Joao; Gomes, Joao. "Distributed, simple and stable network localization". Paper presented in 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Atlanta, 2014.
    Published • 10.1109/globalsip.2014.7032222
Journal article
  1. Manfletti, Chiara; Guimarães, Marta; Soares, Claudia. "AI for space traffic management". Journal of Space Safety Engineering 10 4 (2023): 495-504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsse.2023.08.007.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jsse.2023.08.007
  2. Valdeira, Filipa M.; Ferreira, Ricardo; Micheletti, Alessandra; Soares, Cláudia. "Probabilistic Registration for Gaussian Process Three-Dimensional Shape Modelling in the Presence of Extensive Missing Data". SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science 5 2 (2023): 502-527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/22m1495494.
    Published • 10.1137/22m1495494
  3. Rackovic, Stevo; Soares, Cláudia; Jakovetic, Dusan; Desnica, Zoranka. "A majorization–minimization-based method for nonconvex inverse rig problems in facial animation: algorithm derivation". Optimization Letters (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11590-023-02012-w.
    Published • 10.1007/s11590-023-02012-w
  4. Marta Guimarães; Claudia Soares; Rodrigo Ventura. "Decision Support Models for Predicting and Explaining Airport Passenger Connectivity From Data". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 23 9 (2022): 16005-16015. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/c1fa5fc2-2f8c-4359-a8a4-6d4431111908.
    Published • 10.1109/TITS.2022.3147155
  5. João Domingos; Claudia Soares; João Xavier. "Robust Localization With Bounded Noise". Ieee Transactions On Signal Processing 70 (2022): 1-15. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/04b1a1b7-1223-4996-8fa4-eebf36f3c186.
    Published • 10.1109/TSP.2022.3185899
  6. Soares, C.; Gomes, J.. "STRONG: Synchronous and asynchronous robust network localization, under non-Gaussian noise". Signal Processing 185 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85103086393&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.sigpro.2021.108066
  7. Valdeira, Filipa; Ferreira, Ricardo; Micheletti, Alessandra; Soares, Claudia. "From Noisy Point Clouds to Complete Ear Shapes: Unsupervised Pipeline". IEEE Access 9 (2021): 127720-127734. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3111811.
    Published • 10.1109/access.2021.3111811
  8. Soares, Claudia; Valdeira, Filipa Marreiros; Gomes, Joao. "Range and Bearing Data Fusion for Precise Convex Network Localization". IEEE Signal Processing Letters 27 (2020): 670-674. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85085616340&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/LSP.2020.2988178
  9. Ferreira, Beatriz Quintino; Gomes, João; Soares, Cláudia; Costeira, João P.. "FLORIS and CLORIS: Hybrid source and network localization based on ranges and video". Signal Processing 153 (2018): 355-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2018.08.003.
    Published • 10.1016/j.sigpro.2018.08.003
  10. Soares, C.; Gomes, J.; Ferreira, B.Q.; Costeira, J.P.. "LocDyn: Robust distributed localization for mobile underwater networks". IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 42 4 (2017): 1063-1074. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028535496&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/JOE.2017.2736951
  11. Soares, C.; Xavier, J.; Gomes, J.; Claudia Soares; Joao Xavier; Joao Gomes. "Simple and Fast Convex Relaxation Method for Cooperative Localization in Sensor Networks Using Range Measurements". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 63 17 (2015): 4532-4543. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84937961384&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/TSP.2015.2454853
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/11/19 Invited Talk: Data for Good: Estimating Perception of Safety on Urban Environments Data Science Conference Europe
DSC Europe (Belgrade, Serbia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/03/01 - Current Methods of explainable machine learning applied to LiDAR scans analysis,
Supervisor of Diogo Restolho Mateus Marçalo Lavado
 Computer Science, Mathematics (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Matematica Federigo Enriques, Italy

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - Current Deep Learning for forecasting. Application to resident space objects dynamics
Supervisor of Marta Isabel Vaz Guimarães Pinto de Melo
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - Current Aggregating Local and Network-wide Effects on a Graph Neural Network forTrip Prediction in Bike-sharing Systems
Co-supervisor of Bárbara Palmeiro Tavares
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - Current Breaking Ground: Novel 3D Point Cloud Predictors that Fuse Expert Knowledge and Machine Learning
Supervisor of Bruno Afonso Cotrim Rodrigues
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - Current Assisting Primary Care Physicians in Referral Decision-Making: An HCI Approach
Supervisor of Alessandro Gambetti
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09 - Current Interpretable Machine Learning for Orbit prediction
Supervisor of Francisco Caldas
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/03 - Current Robust Machine Learning for Space Traffic Management
Supervisor of Ricardo Jorge Nunes Ferreira
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - Current Decentralized Machine Learning, with data distributed by features
Co-supervisor of Pedro Marreiros Malveiro Valdeira
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Carnegie Mellon University, United States
2019/03/01 - Current Distributed optimization of biokinetic models based on large 4D sequences
Supervisor of Stevo Rackovic
 Estatística e Processos Estocásticos (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

3Lateral, Serbia

Univerzitet u Novom Sadu Prirodno-Matematicki fakultet, Serbia
2023 - 2023 Cliente 360 – Segmentação e Caracterização da base de clientes da NOS
Supervisor of Ana Margarida Pinto Borbinha
 Análise e Engenharia de Big Data (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Data and computer center prediction of usage and cost: an interpretable machine learning approach
Supervisor of Gonçalo Furtado Mateus
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Explainable recommender system for patient referral in the healthcare setting
Supervisor of Valeria Danalachi
 Análise e Engenharia de Big Data (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Physics-Inspired Machine Learning for orbit determination in Low-Earth Orbit
Supervisor of João Pedro de Noronha Funenga
 Análise e Engenharia de Big Data (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/03/01 - 2022/11/08 Stochastic Geometric modelling and 3D image analysis for human face prostheses
Co-supervisor of Filipa Marreiros Malveiro Valdeira
 Probabilita' e Statistica Matematica (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
2022 - 2022 Modelling Customer Churn with Time-to-Event Approaches
Supervisor of José Tomás Oliveira Pulquerio de Silveira
 Análise e Engenharia de Big Data (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Robust and fast statistical estimation models for space debris
Supervisor of Ricardo Jorge Nunes Ferreira
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 If This Do That: Interpretable Machine Learning Models For High Stakes Decision-Making
Supervisor of Lourenço Malheiro Serpa de Vasconcelos
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/11/27 Learning the Leader-Follower Structure from Data Streams
Supervisor of Mariana Branco Varanda da Silva Galrinho
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2019/07/12 Vehicle Network Localization Based on Ranges and Bearings with Packet Loss
Supervisor of Adriana Maria Tavares Pereira da Silva
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 A Study on Probabilistic Satellite Localization Using Messages Metadata
Co-supervisor of António Da Silva Almeida
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Aircraft trajectory prediction in crowded terminal areas
Supervisor of António Fallah
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 City-SAFE: Estimating Urban Safety Perception
Supervisor of Gabriel Pereira Correia Cabral da Costa
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 A Model Predictive Control approach on Dynamic Bike Reposition
Supervisor of Guilherme Duarte Tavares Saraiva
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Distributed Learning and Inference for Gaussian Mixtures
Supervisor of Pedro Marreiros Malveiro Valdeira
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2018/11/20 Hybrid Localization in Underwater Environment
Supervisor of Filipa Marreiros Malveiro Valdeira
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2018/11/13 Remote Condition Monitoring application to railway traction systems
Supervisor of Rafael Mendes Borges
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2018/11/12 Patrolling and target tracking using cooperative artificial agents
Supervisor of Pedro Miguel De Oliveira Murta Carrasqueira
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2017/11/16 DIeSEL: DIstributed SElf-Localization of a network of vehicles
Supervisor of Pusheng Ji
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2017/11/15 ISEE.U: Distributed estimation and control for improved target localization accuracy
Supervisor of Miguel Araújo Vasques
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - 2023/09/08 ML4SPACE Summer School on Machine Learning for Space sciences (2023/09/01 - 2023/09/08)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/02/27 - 2021/06 French German Portuguese conference on optimization 2021: Organizing committee (2020/12/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
2018/05/15 - 2018/05/15 Industrial Workshop on the theme: Networking for Data Science, Mathematics and Engineering. The financing was approved by COST Action TD1409 “Mathematics for industry network (MINET)”. We had the pleasure of welcoming 7 speakers from companies related to the theme, in addition to a panel discussion that brought together representatives from academia and the academic world. More than 110 participants were registered, both from the IST community and from companies. The workshop website is http://networking4ds.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/. (2018/05/15 - 2018/05/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2020/01/15 Latent Class Models in the Evaluation of Biomedical Diagnostic Tests and Internet Traffic Anomaly Detection
Thesis Member
 Ana Patricia Subtil da Graça Freitas Garcia (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
2019/12/18 Aircraft trajectory prediction in crowded terminal areas
Supervisor
 António Fallah (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/11/27 Learning the Leader-Follower Structure from Data Streams
Supervisor
 Mariana Branco Varanda da Silva Galrinho (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/11/26 A Model Predictive Control approach on Dynamic Bike Reposition
Supervisor
 Guilherme Duarte Tavares Saraiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/07/12 Vehicle Network Localization Based on Ranges and Bearings with Packet Loss
Supervisor
 Adriana Maria Tavares Pereira da Silva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/06/24 City-SAFE: Estimating Urban Safety Perception
Supervisor
 Gabriel Pereira Correia Cabral da Costa (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/11/20 Hybrid Localization in Underwater Environment
Supervisor
 Filipa Marreiros Malveiro Valdeira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/11/13 Remote Condition Monitoring – application to railway traction systems
Supervisor
 Rafael Mendes Borges (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/11/12 Patrolling and target tracking using cooperative artificial agents
Supervisor
 Pedro Miguel De Oliveira Murta Carrasqueira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/05/29 Acoustic Localization for Assistive Robots
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vera Korchevnyuk (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/11/16 DIeSEL: DIstributed SElf-Localization of a network of vehicles
Supervisor
 Pusheng Ji (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/11/15 ISEE.U: Distributed estimation and control for improved target localization accuracy
Supervisor
 Miguel Araújo Vasques (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Consulting with faber.vc for expert evaluation of AI-based startups
2022/03/01 - Current Management of the Space Debris problem and prevention of collisions between satellites, through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies. Neuraspace, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Deep Learning Engenharia Informática (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - Current Machine Learning Engenharia Informática (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Streams Processing (Machine Learning for streams module) Engenharia Informática (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/09/09 - 2021 Complex Systems (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2018/02/20 - 2021 Processing Big Data Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/09/15 - 2020/02/10 Optimization and Algorithms Engenharia e Ciência de Dados, Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/10/09 - 2019/10/15 Advanced course on Processing Big Data (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/07/15 - 2018/07/21 Lecture on Processing Big Data on the Urban Analytics IN+ Summer School (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos em Inovação Tecnologia e Políticas de Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019/10/21 - Current Project Reviewer for the Serbian Science Foundation Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Serbia
2023 - 2024 Evaluation Committee of the CMU Portugal Visiting Students Program
2023 - 2023 EU 2023 Twinning Evaluator
Evaluator
 European Commission, Belgium

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2020/02/20 - 2020/02/20 90 segundos de ciência Big Data research: distributed learning of digital humans and Big Data learning of models for patients with absent noses and ears

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/12 - Current Journal of Mathematics in Industry Springer
Distinctions

Award

2023 REN prize honorable mention to the MSc thesis of Diogo Lavado
Redes Energéticas Nacionais SGPS SA, Portugal
2023 Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge - 3rd prize for the MSc thesis of Diogo Lavado
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2022 Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge - 2nd prize for the MSc thesis of Bárbara Tavares
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2022 Best Portuguese MSc Thesis in Automatic Control for the thesis of Maria Carvalho
Portuguese Association of Automatic Control, Portugal
2021 Diploma of Excellency in Teaching
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 2nd prize of best MSc thesis in Pattern Recognition (and honorable mention) to Pedro Valdeira
Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), Portugal