experience
master thesis
Instituto de Telecomunicações - Sardine LabOct 2023 - Present, Lisbon
- working on State Space architectures in NLP for document-level machine translation (RetNet, S4, Mamba, ...)
- 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 implemented the company's website, hosting the required business infrastructure on AWS
- conceptualized and wrote content for workshops covering Generative AI in a business setting
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 publication drafts that were discontinued
- advised by Anum Afzal and Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes
education
lisbon machine learning school
Instituto Superior TécnicoJul 2023, Lisbon
- week-long school covering everything from fundamental Machine Learning to Transformers and Multimodality
- attended lectures, labs and keynotes from selected speakers, distinguished professors and renowned researchers
master in Informatics
Technical University of MunichOct 2021 - Present, Munich
- completed several courses in ML, Scientific and Quantum Computing areas
- lead the team and built a Text Simplification system with a pipeline of Deep Learning models
- worked on a financial assistant chatbot in the Chair of Digital Finance
- projected average of 1.8/5, 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
projects
blog
Quantum Computing via Ion Trapping
seminar report for Advanced Topics of Quantum Computing
Future of Artificial Intelligence
admission essay for my master's at TUM
Make it Simple: Simplifying English Sentences
a study on Text Simplification
Are Large Language Models Capable of domain-specific Text Summarization?
draft of an unpublished paper