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.
The focus of my research lies in the intersection between machine learning and computer vision. I am interested in designing deep learning models that are capable of accumulating wisdom over time, from sporadic encounters with data , without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. As such, I've previously worked and maintain an active interest in areas such as multi-task network design, life-long learning, zero-shot, and low-shot learning, multimodal joint embeddings for visual, audio and text embeddings.
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.
Publications
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Audio-Visual Instance Discrimination with Cross-Modal Agreement
Preprint, 2020.
Audio-Visual Instance Discrimination
ECCV Workshop - Multi-Modal Video Analysis, 2020.
Deep Hashing with Hash-Consistent Large Margin Proxy Embeddings
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 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.
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