Nuno Ricardo da Cruz Garcia (FB1C-A524-7606)

Curriculum Vitae

Nuno Ricardo da Cruz Garcia

Nuno Cruz Garcia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, and an integrated researcher at LASIGE. He coordinates the MSc course Deep Learning and leads the Lisbon Vision and Learning (LxViL) group. His research focuses on computer vision and deep learning, with applications in biomedical imaging, human–robot interaction, and multimodal learning. : : : : He is currently responsible for the computer vision work package in the Horizon Europe project HARIA-FT, and contributes to national projects such as PAIR-LUNG (histopathological image analysis), THOR (ultrasound imaging), and ATTRACT-EDIH (AI and HPC innovation hub). : : : : Previously, he was Principal Investigator of the exploratory FCT project DL-Cadet (breast cancer multimodal deep learning), and a member of the Management Committee of COST Action CA19134 Distributed Knowledge Graphs. He also contributed to standardization efforts in trustworthy AI within the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 committee. Has supervised over 20 MSc theses to completion and currently supervises 4 PhD students. : : : : He holds a PhD in Computational Vision from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Università di Genova, supervised by Vittorio Murino, and was a visiting researcher at Boston University’s IVC Lab with Stan Sclaroff.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Nuno Ricardo da Cruz Garcia

Citation names

Cruz Garcia, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: FB1C-A524-7606
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6371-3310
Google Scholar ID: HhCz7nIAAAAJ
Researcher Id: U-8422-2018
Scopus Author Id: 56347929500

Email addresses

nrgarcia@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
ncgarcia@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
ncgarcia@fc.ul.pt (Personal)

Websites

ncgarcia.github.io/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
Italian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/11/01 - 2020/02/28 Concluded	Computational vision, automatic recognition and learning (Doutoramento) Major in Computational vision, automatic recognition and learning Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy "Learning with Privileged Information using Multimodal Data" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/09/15 - 2015/09/15 Concluded	Engenharia Informática (Mestrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal "Social Network Analysis for Insurance Fraud Detection" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/09/15 - 2013/06/19 Concluded	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal "3D Lips Biometric Recognition" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

2020/09/01 - 2022/08/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

2020/03/01 - 2020/08/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/11/01 - 2016/10/30	Data Engineer	Miniclip, Portugal

2014/09/01 - 2015/10/31	Consultant	Deloitte Portugal, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/09/01 - Current	ATTRACT-EDIH: European Digital Innovation Hub for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing¿ 101083770 Researcher
2023/03/01 - Current	PAIR-LUNG – Patient-derived lung cancer organoids for recreating tumor spread through AIR spaces phenomena 2022.07775.PTDC	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/02/01 - Current	Deep multimodal Learning for breast CAncer DETection EXPL/CCI-COM/0656/2021 Principal investigator FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/03/01 - Current	Computer Assisted Thoracic Assessment using POCUS DSAIPA/AI/0083/2020 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2024/04/01 - 2026/09/01	Human-Robot Sensorimotor Augmentation 10.3030/101070292 Researcher
2022/01/01 - 2022/12/31	AIPALS - Advanced LearnIng Models using Patient Profiles and Disease Progression Patterns for Prognostic Prediction in ALS PTDC/CCI-CIF/4613/2020 Researcher

Other

	Designation	Funders
2020/11/01 - 2024/11/01	COST Distributed Knowledge Graphs COST-DKG Member of Managing Committee Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Felizardo, V.; Rodrigues, H.; Garcia, N.C.; Alexandre, C.; Oliveira, D.; Sousa, P.; Garcia, N.M.; Pombo, N.. Metabolic.Care: A novel solution based on a thermography for detection of diabetic foot. 2016. 10.1007/978-3-319-40114-0_13 Proença, H.; Neves, J.C.; Sequeiros, J.; Carapito, N.; Garcia, N.C.. Biometric identification from facial sketches of poor reliability: Comparison of human and machine performance. 2014. 10.1007/978-3-642-54080-6_3 Felizardo, V.; Sousa, P.; Sabugueiro, D.; Alexandre, C.; Couto, R.; Garcia, N.; Pires, I.. E-health: Current status and future trends. 2014. Garcia, N.M.; Garcia, N.C.. IP over optical fiber. 2013.
Book chapter	Garcia, N.C.; Morerio, P.; Murino, V.. "Cross-modal Learning by Hallucinating Missing Modalities in RGB-D Vision". 383-401. 2019. Nuno C. Garcia; Pietro Morerio; Vittorio Murino. "Modality Distillation with Multiple Stream Networks for Action Recognition". 106-121. Springer International Publishing, 2018. 10.1007/978-3-030-01237-3_7
Conference abstract	Oliveira-Saraiva, Duarte; Joao Leote; Filipe Gonzalez; Cruz Garcia, Nuno; FERREIRA, HUGO ALEXANDRE. "Machine learning improves icu admission based on lung ultrasound score". Paper presented in 43rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTENSIVE CARE & EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Brussels, 2024. Accepted
Conference paper	Cruz Garcia, Nuno; vitaly ablavsky; Stan Sclaroff; Sarah Bargal; Pietro Morerio; Vittorio Murino. "DMCL: Distillation Multiple Choice Learning for Multimodal Action Recognition". Paper presented in IEEE WACV, 2021. Published Garcia, Nuno; Pietro Morerio; Vittorio Murino. "Modality Distillation with Multiple Stream Networks for Action Recognition". Paper presented in European Conference on Computer Vision, 2018. Oliveira, D.; Sousa, P.; Felizardo, V.; Garcia, N.C.; Alexandre, C.; Garcia, N.M.. "Metabolic care: A hardware and software platform to monitor and assess diabetic foot condition". 2015. 10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001867 Garcia, N.M.; Garcia, N.C.; Sousa, P.; Oliveira, D.; Alexandre, C.; Felizardo, V.. "TICE.Healthy: A perspective on medical information integration". 2014. 10.1109/BHI.2014.6864403
Conference poster	Oliveira-Saraiva, Duarte; Cruz Garcia, Nuno; FERREIRA, HUGO ALEXANDRE. "Web-based research tool for predicting the need for ICU admission in COVID-19 patients". Paper presented in 3º Encontro Internacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fisiologia, 2024. Figueiras, Hugo; Aidos, Helena; Cruz Garcia, Nuno. Corresponding author: Figueiras, Hugo. "Multi-organ Self -supervised Contrastive Learning for Breast Lesion Segmentation". Paper presented in Machine Learning for Health (ML4H), 2023. Oliveira-Saraiva, Duarte; Joao Leote; Filipe Gonzalez; Cruz Garcia, Nuno; FERREIRA, HUGO ALEXANDRE. "Lung ultrasound findings correlate with STP/F in COVID-19 pneumonia patients: A machine learning approach"". Paper presented in European Congress of Radiology 2023, 2023.
Journal article	João Mendes; Bernardo Oliveira; Carolina Araújo; Joana Galrão; Nuno C. Garcia; Nuno Matela. "You get the best of both worlds? Integrating deep learning and traditional machine learning for breast cancer risk prediction". Computers in Biology and Medicine (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.109733. 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.109733 Duarte Oliveira-Saraiva; João Leote; Filipe André Gonzalez; Nuno Cruz Garcia; Hugo Alexandre Ferreira. "We Need to Talk About Lung Ultrasound Score: Prediction of Intensive Care Unit Admission with Machine Learning". Journal of Imaging (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging11020045. 10.3390/jimaging11020045 João Mendes; Nuno C. Garcia; Nuno Matela. "Artificial intelligence for hierarchical tumor masking potential classification in mammograms". Innovative Practice in Breast Health (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibreh.2024.100014. 10.1016/j.ibreh.2024.100014 João Guerreiro; Pedro Tomás; Nuno Garcia; Helena Aidos. "Super-resolution of magnetic resonance images using Generative Adversarial Networks". Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2023.102280. 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2023.102280 Mendes, João; Matela, Nuno; Cruz Garcia, Nuno. "Avoiding Tissue Overlap in 2D Images: Single-Slice DBT Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks". Tomography 9 1 (2023): 398-412. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tomography9010032. 10.3390/tomography9010032 João Mendes; José Domingues; Helena Aidos; Nuno Garcia; Nuno Matela. "AI in Breast Cancer Imaging: A Survey of Different Applications". Journal of Imaging (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8090228. 10.3390/jimaging8090228 André Vong; João P. Matos-Carvalho; Piero Toffanin; Dário Pedro; Fábio Azevedo; Filipe Moutinho; Nuno Cruz Garcia; André Mora. "How to Build a 2D and 3D Aerial Multispectral Map?—All Steps Deeply Explained". Remote Sensing 13 16 (2021): 3227-3227. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163227. 10.3390/rs13163227 Nuno C. Garcia; Pietro Morerio; Vittorio Murino; Garcia, Nuno. "Learning with Privileged Information via Adversarial Discriminative Modality Distillation". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 42 10 (2020): 2581-2593. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2929038. 10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2929038 Felizardo, V.; Sousa, P.; Oliveira, D.; Alexandre, C.; Garcia, N.C.; Garcia, N.M.. "TICE.healthy: Integration of ICT solutions for "health and quality of life",TICE.healthy: Integração de soluções TIC para a "saúde e qualidade de vida"". RISTI - Revista Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao 14 (2015): 17-32. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85034751790&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.17013/risti.14.17-32
Preprint	"DMCL: Distillation Multiple Choice Learning for Multimodal Action Recognition". 2019.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/02/01	Multimodal Distillation for Action Recognition	Invited Seminar Boston University (Boston, United States)
2018/07/01	Modality distillation with multiple stream networks for action recognition	PAISS - PRAIRIE AI Summer School INRIA (Grenoble, France)
2018/07/01	Learning with privileged information via adversarial discriminative modality distillation	ACDL - Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (Siena, Italy)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025 - Current	AI-powered Failure Management Framework for Human-Robot Sensorimotor Augmentation Supervisor of Jordan Antypas	Informática (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - Current	Deep Learning-based Digital Twin of Manufacturing Systems Supervisor of Nessrine Farhat	Informática (PhD) Université Grenoble Alpes, France Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - Current	Multimodal Foundation Model for Breast Cancer Supervisor of Hugo Figueiras	Informática (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - Current	Data, algorithms, and platforms for management of sleep disorders at home Supervisor of Lisana Daniel	Informática (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023 - Current	Automated Mammography and Breast Exam Report Generation Supervisor of José Domingues	Informática (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - Current	Development of an artificial intelligence-based assisted navigation and diagnosis solution for pulmonary point-of-care ultrasound Co-supervisor of Duarte Saraiva	Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - Current	Breast Cancer Risk Prediction: Combining multiple imaging modalities in Convolutional Neural Networks Co-supervisor of João Mendes	Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - Current	Using Breast Cancer Risk-based Models with Reinforcement Learning for Early Detection Co-supervisor of Jéssica Catarino	Informática (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2025 - 2025	Deep Learning with scarce resources for histopathology image analysis - (http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/97909) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Contrastive Learning For Medical Imaging - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64079) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Autodispatcher: a fully automated failure analyzer - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64342) Supervisor	Ciência de Dados (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Vineyards monitoring using convolutional neural networks and multispectral images - (http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/96898) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Using supervised machine learning to quantify cleaning behaviour - (http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/96689) Co-supervisor	Bioestatística (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Machine Learning Algorithm for the prediction of the direction of growth of Macular Neovascularization - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64087) Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Development and optimization of AI algorithms for the categorization of small texts from social media data related to disasters - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64086) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - 2024	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture with AI-Based Image Labeling for Intracranial Pressure Assessment in Spaceflight Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2023	Deep Learning for Predicting Disease Progression of Clinical Endpoints in ALS - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/57551) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023 - 2023	Exploiting diffusion-based data augmentation and a classifier ensemble for early wild fire detection - () Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2023	Semi-supervised brain lesion segmentation: a deep learning approach Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Adversarial Representation Learning for Medical Imaging - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56666) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Plataforma de apoio a utentes e profissionais de desporto e nutrição - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/55496) Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Super-Resolution of Biomedical Images with Generative Adversarial Networks and posterior Tumor Segmentation - (IST-1710134) Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Prognostic prediction models using Self-Attention for ICU patients developing acute kidney injury - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/53871) Co-supervisor	Ciência de Dados (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Registration Platform For Federations And Gymnastics Clubs - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/55494) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Automatic detection of forest fires: a deep learning approach - Exploiting data augmentation for the development of early forest fire detection systems - (IST-1711169) Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022	A Study on Generative Augmentation with cGANs for improved Chest X-ray Classification - (IST-1712764) Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 - 2022	Desenvolvimento de um sistema de analíticas e monitorização para uma aplicação multi-tenant SaaS - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51987) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 - 2021	Generative Deep Clustering with the Hierarchical and Relativistic Wasserstein Autoencoder GAN - (IST-1671772) Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Human resource management aid tool - (http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51327) Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/01/01 - 2021/01/01	Deep Learning Sessions Lisbon - 1k+ community of Deep Learning enthusiasts. (2020/01/01) Seminar (Co-organisor)

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025	Deep Learning Models for Clinical Assessment of Prostate Cancer (Thesis) Arguer	Nuno Rodrigues (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2025	Computational Model of Visual Memory for Early Diagnosis of Dementia (Thesis) Arguer	Anastasiia Mikhailova (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024	Advancements In Medical Imaging Tools And Machine Learning Analysis To Improve Biomarkers Of Age-related Macular Degeneration (Thesis) Main arguer	Ana Carolina Mourão Fradinho (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Medical School, Portugal
2023/01/23	An Uncertainty Prediction Approach for Active Learning - Application to Earth Observation (Thesis) Main arguer	Kashyap Damjibhai Raiyani (PhD) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022 - Current	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2021 - Current	IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CORE A*)	2021, 22, 23, 24, 25
2021 - Current	IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (CORE A)	2021, 22, 23, 24, 25
2021 - Current	International Conference on Computer Vision (CORE A*)	2021, 23, 25
2020 - Current	European Conference on Computer Vision (CORE A*)	2020, 22, 24

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Deep Learning - (coordinator)		Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020 - 2025	Computer Graphics (20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24, 24/25)	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Artificial Life	Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Introduction to Data Science Research	Ciência de Dados (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Machine Learning	(Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Knowledge Engineering	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Data Visualization	Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Programming II	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/03/01 - 2020/07/31	Computer Graphics (coordinator)	Computação Gráfica (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Programming I	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Intelligent Systems (20/21, 22/23)	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/01/01 - Current	Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2020/01/01 - Current	Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Q1)
2020/01/01 - Current	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (Q1)
2020/01/01 - Current	IEEE Access (Q1)

Distinctions

Award

2024	Supervisor of João Mendes, the recipient of the < Best Poster at the 1st Innovation in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering: Synergies and Challenges Forum > by Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Section of the Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa, Portugal