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hugo pitorro

i'm a Computer Science student at the Technical University of Munich

experience

research assistant

Instituto de Telecomunicações - Sardine LabJul 2024 - Present, Lisbon

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

projects

Política Aberta

RemoteDec 2023 - Mar 2024, Lisbon

  • lead developer of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation LLM system, the open-source project intends to simplify access to the political parties' election promises and manifests
  • built the system using React, Flask and the OpenAI API Github

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