Scholar
Joao Magalhaes
Google Scholar ID: P6fBAXMAAAAJ
Full Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Citations & Impact
Citations
815
H-index
14
i10-index
25
Publications
20
Co-authors
12
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - Diogo Glória-Silva et al., EACL 2024
- - Rafael Ferreira et al., Amazon Alexa TaskBot Challenge, 2023
- - Rafael Ferreira et al., ECIR 2021
- - G. Marcelino et al., ACM Multimedia 2021
- - D. Semedo et al., ACM Multimedia 2019
- - D. Semedo et al., ACM Multimedia 2018
- - G. Marcelino et al., ACM International Conference in Multimedia Retrieval 2018 (Best paper nomination)
- - Projects:
- - Amazon Alexa TaskBot Challenge 2021-2023 (Faculty Advisor)
- - iFetch (Local-PI, 2020-2023, CMU|Portugal)
- - SmartyFlow (Local-PI, 2017-2020, ANI PT2020)
- - COGNITUS (Local-PI, 2016-2019, H2020 ICT)
- - GoLocal (PI, 2016-2020, CMU|Portugal)
- - QSearch (Local-PI, 2012-2015, ANI QREN)
- - ImTV (PI, 2010-2013, UTAustin|Portugal)
- - CS4SE (PI, 2010-2013, FCT/MCTES)
- - Awards:
- - TWIZ won the 1st prize in the second Alexa TaskBot Challenge, 2023
- - TWIZ was an award-winning solution in the Alexa TaskBot Challenge, 2022
Research Experience
- - Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- - Group Coordinator, Multimodal Systems Group
- - Member of NOVA Laboratory for Informatics and Computer Science
- - Coordinating the NOVASearch group at FCT/UNL, targeting Web, social media, and clinical domains
Background
- - Research Interests: Vision and language information understanding and applications
- - Specific areas: Multimodal information understanding, multimodal conversational AI, multimedia search and summarization, temporal and memory models, social media information quality
Miscellany
- - Latest News:
- - September 2023: TWIZ won the 1st prize in the second Alexa TaskBot Challenge
- - October 2022: ACM Multimedia 2022 was a massive success
- - June 2022: TWIZ was an award-winning solution in the Alexa TaskBot Challenge
- - July 2022: European Summer School in Information Retrieval was held at NOVA University
- - October 2021: Organizing ACM Multimedia 2022 in Lisbon
