I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Statistical Visual Computing Lab (SVCL) with Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos at the University of California, San Diego. Before arriving to UC San Diego, I earned both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa in 2010 and 2012, respectively.
I am interested in computer vision and machine learning. Specifically, my research focuses on developing learning and deployment frameworks that enable deep learning to operate with restricted labeled data and restricted computing power. As such, I maintain an active interest in areas such as zero-shot, low-shot learning and other transfer learning problems, self-supervised learning, multimodal supervision, and efficient training and deployment procedures.
Before starting my Ph.D. studies, I worked with Prof. Margarida Silveira in the automatic diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and its onset stages, from multiple brain imaging modalities such as MRI and PET.
I am on the academic job market this year.
Publications
Find my publication profile at Google Scholar.
Robust Audio-Visual Instance Discrimination
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
Oral presentation
NetTailor: Tuning the Architecture, Not Just the Weights
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, 2019.
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[Workshop] NetTailor: Tuning the Architecture, Not Just the Weights
Southern California Machine Learning Symposium (SCMLS), 2020.
Minimal Neighborhood Redundancy Maximal Relevance: Application to the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
Neurocomputing, Vol. 155, pp. 295-308, May, 2015.
Efficient Selection of Non-redundant Features for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), San Francisco, CA, 2013.
Oral presentation
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using 3D Local Binary Patterns
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging Visualization, Vol. 1, April, 2013
Extending Local Binary Patterns to 3D for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), San Francisco, CA, 2013.
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Education
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professional Experience
University of California, San Diego
Graduate Student Resercher
Facebook AI Research (FAIR), New York, USA
Research Intern
Adobe Research, Seattle, USA
Research Scientist Intern
University of California, San Diego
Teaching Assistant, Digital Signal Processing II
Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon, Portugal
Graduate Reserch Assistent
Awards & Fellowships
Outstanding reviewer
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Graduate Fellowship
University of California, San Diego
Graduate Fellowship