Recipient of the 2022 World Cultural Council Special Recognition in 'Education'; his doctoral thesis was awarded the Best PhD Thesis on Computational Processing of Portuguese (2012-2014) at the 11th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2014); received an honorable mention for the Best PhD Thesis Award 2013-2014 from APPIA; involved in several research projects including LUMEN, GOBLIN, AI4Juris, etc.
Research Experience
2023-present: Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra, teaching courses such as Natural Language Processing and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; 2013-2022: Assistant Professor in the same department, teaching Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence among other subjects; 2014-present: Full member at CISUC; 2013: Post-doctoral researcher at CISUC within the iCIS project; 2009-2013: PhD student under the Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia; 2007-2008: Researcher at Linguateca, based in Coimbra/CISUC.
Education
2013: Doctorate in Science & Information Technology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal; 2007: Master's degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal; 2006: Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Background
He is a researcher at the Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra and an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering at the same university. He lives in Coimbra, Portugal.
Miscellany
Interested in music, beer, following sports competitions like Formula 1, cycling, tennis, football, and Eurovision; also interested in Portuguese history and social networks.