Articles & Publications

Articles, blog posts, and scientific publications I've authored.

A Loka Engineer Goes to Davos

LOKA
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Tecnológicas vs Farmacêuticas: onde estão os melhores líderes?

Netfarma
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Será o salário o principal culpado pela dificuldade das empresas em reter talento?

Público
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Showdown in AI Drug Discovery: LLMs vs Diffusion Models

LOKA
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Toward Resolving Heterogeneous Mixtures of Nanocarriers in Drug Delivery Systems

ACS Nano
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The AI Revolution in Life Sciences is Happening Now Part 2

LOKA
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The AI Revolution in Life Sciences is Happening Now Part 1

LOKA
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Why Private Hospitals Still Make You Wait: A Data Dilemma

LinkedIn Newsletter
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Investir com propósito: será possível investir de forma sustentável e lucrativa?

O Amador Financeiro
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Merging Passions: From GenAI to Conscious Travel Planning

LinkedIn
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MIT Critical Datathon 2023: MIMIC-IV Derived Dataset

PhysioNet
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Transfer Learning Techniques for Classification of Biological Samples

University of Porto (Master Thesis)
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Eurekathon 2021: Desafiar os dados a tornar as cidades sustentáveis

NOS
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Systematic Review of Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Spectral Analysis

Frontiers in Pediatrics
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An AI-Based Image Content Retrieval System

NILG.AI
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Viajar em Erasmus? Fecho de fronteiras não permite

Público
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Talks & Workshops

Speaking engagements, presentations, and workshops I've delivered at conferences and events.

Como a Inteligência Artificial está a Revolucionar a Saúde

Gen Sci Universidade de Aveiro
April 16, 2025

The AI Revolution in Life Sciences is Happening Now

Geek Girls Conference Portugal
April 5, 2025

Da Universidade para o Mercado de Trabalho: Aprendizagens de uma

Jornadas da Engenharia Biomédica VIII UTAD
March 19, 2025

Getting Started with Biology's Version of ChatGPT

ENEEB XX
March 8, 2025

Estado das Diversas Áreas da Engenharia Biomédica em Portugal

Roundtable ANEEB
January 29, 2025

Indústria Farmacêutica - Impactos e Desafios

Podcast Cruzamento
November 5, 2024

Inovação Tecnológica Centrada no Paciente

Podcast Cruzamento
October 22, 2024

Challenges of Using AI in Personalized Medicine

Symposium on Bioengineering @ FEUP
March 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence: the future or the downfall of medicine?

Health Beats Talks @ FMUP
March 12, 2024

Abrir Caminho para a Medicina Personalizada

ENEEB XVIII
February 25, 2023

Ondas do Douro

BioCast ANEEB
December 29, 2021

Awards

Recognitions, honors, and competition wins I've received for innovation and excellence.

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Honoree

World Economic Forum · Global Shapers Porto Hub
Year:
2026

Selected as 1 of 40 Global Shapers worldwide to attend the Forum 2026 Annual Meeting in Davos, representing Portugal at the world's largest annual gathering of global leaders.

Winner of Loka's Gen AI Bootcamp Hackathon

Loka's Gen AI Bootcamp with AWS
Year:
2025

Our team developed an AI-driven genomics solution that automates variant analysis while maintaining responsible AI practices, reducing analysis time from 6 hours to 1 hour per case.

1º Place in Eurekathon

Eurekathon by NOS
Year:
2021

In a 50h data-driven competition towards sustainable mobility in Matosinhos city, we developed a winning set of solutions to promote user engagement, effective targeting, and fleet optimization in a context of micromobility.

2º Place in Age-i-Tank

Age-i-Tank
Year:
2021

In the context of the competition Age-i-Tank, our team had the chance to develop a project, originally born in a previous competition. During 1 month and a half, with the help of a great mentor and several traning sessions, we improved our idea and prepared an investment deck to present in the competition's final to a juri composed of several Venture Capital Investors.

Talkdesk Winning Project

Glintt Inov
Year:
2020

To tackle the queues of the various health units in our country, as well as the congestion of the health line SNS24, we proposed the creation of a voice bot, MedBot, which would be the automated triage front line of the national health service and private health groups.