experience
research assistant
Instituto de Telecomunicações - Sardine LabJul 2024 - Present, Lisbon
- working on context-efficient alternatives to the transformer architecture and their interpretability mechanisms
- advised by Prof. André Martins and Marcos Treviso
co-founder
SMP TechnologiesMay 2023 - Oct 2023, Munich
- co-founded a startup intended to solve and automate enterprise problems and tasks with modern AI technologies (Generative AI, Computer Vision)
- designed and built the company's business infrastructure, deployed using AWS.
research assistant
Technical University of Munich - SebisNov 2022 - Jul 2023, Munich
- developed a framework for fine-tuning/evaluating various DL models in different NLP downstream tasks
- co-authored unpublished papers [1]
- advised by Anum Afzal and Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes
projects
education
lisbon machine learning school
Instituto Superior TécnicoJul 2023, Lisbon
- week-long school covering everything from fundamental Machine Learning, transformers, multimodality and causality
- attended lectures, labs and keynotes from selected speakers, distinguished professors and renowned researchers
master in Informatics
Technical University of MunichOct 2021 - May 2024, Munich
- thesis: Exploring Efficient Approaches for Long-Context NLP
- completed several courses in ML, Scientific and Quantum Computing areas
- built a text simplification system with a pipeline of Deep Learning models
- worked on a financial assistant chatbot in the Chair of Digital Finance
- graduated with an average of 1.8/5, merit, ECTS: A
bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior TécnicoSep 2018 - Jul 2021, Lisbon
- coordinated group projects in areas like Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Networking and ML
- graduated with 17/20 average (Academic Merit Distinction), ECTS: A