Contributed to more than 42 peer-reviewed publications, including 5 articles in international journals. These publications have been cited over 150 times according to Google Scholar. Part of the teams that achieved first place in two research challenges.
Research Experience
First contact with research as an intern at INESC-ID's Human Language Technologies Lab in 2009, contributing to several NLP research projects. Teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico since 2013, teaching both undergraduate and Master's level courses, and consistently receiving awards for teaching excellence. Also involved in organizing scientific events, reviewing, knowledge-transfer projects, supervising students, and training in various contexts.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: 2010, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico; Master's Degree: 2012, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico; PhD: 2023, Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (passed with distinction and honor).
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly in dialog systems, intention recognition, knowledge extraction, semantic network creation, dialog policy learning, and natural language grounding. Overview: Broad interest in Artificial Intelligence, with a PhD focus on how dialog systems can extract knowledge from the dialogue to learn and improve their capabilities.