Personal identification

Full name

João Daniel Rua Ferreira Pires da Silva

Citation names

• Silva, João Daniel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

A013-970B-31E4

ORCID iD

0000-0001-6474-7822

Google Scholar ID

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=txdew1EAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

	Degree	Classification
2019/09/15 - 2021/11/26 Concluded	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado) Major in Sistemas Inteligentes Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Deep Learning for Medical Visual Question Answering" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2016/09/15 - 2019/07/09 Concluded	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	16

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/01/04 - 2023/01/01	INTELLIGENT CARE LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-045948 Research Fellow Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal	Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/01 - Current	CRAI - Center for Responsible AI RRP C645008882-00000055 Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal	Ongoing

Publications

Conference paper	João Daniel Silva; João Magalhães; Devis Tuia; Bruno Martins. "Multilingual Vision-Language Pre-training for the Remote Sensing Domain". 2024. 10.1145/3678717.3691318 Silva, João Daniel; Magalhães, João; Tuia, Devis; Martins, Bruno. "Remote sensing visual question answering with a self-attention multi-modal encoder". Paper presented in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022, Seattle, 2022. Published • 10.1145/3557918.3565874 Bruno Martins; Silva, João Daniel. "Towards Natural Language Interfaces for Interacting with Remote Sensing Data". Paper presented in 2022 Spatial Data Science Symposium, 2022. Published • 10.25436/E2S88R
Conference poster	Silva, João Daniel; Magalhaes, Joao; Devis Tuia; Martins, Bruno. "Large Language Models for Captioning and Retrieving Remote Sensing Images". Paper presented in The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations - Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Workshop, 2025.
Journal article	João Daniel Silva; Bruno Martins; João Magalhães. "Contrastive training of a multimodal encoder for medical visual question answering". Intelligent Systems with Applications (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2023.200221. 10.1016/j.iswa.2023.200221