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I have a PhD from the University of Coimbra (in Information Science and Technology). I completed, at the same University, my Master and Bachelor's (Licenciatura - 5 years) degrees, respectively in Informatics Engineering and Mathematics (branch of Computer Graphics). I am a full member of the Cognitive and Media Systems (CMS) research group and the MIR Lab at the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC).
My main research interests and projects are in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Detection of Emotions in Music Lyrics and Text, Text/Data Mining, Feature Engineering, Applied Machine/Deep Learning, LLM, and Data Science.
I am currently an Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria - ESTG), Department of Informatics. I teach courses such as Decision Support Systems (Bach. in Informatics Engineering), Knowledge Engineering (Bach. in Informatics Engineering), Data Mining (MSc in Data Science), Text Mining (MSc in Data Science), and Software Engineering (Bach. in Informatics Engineering).
I supervise several students at the PhD, MSc, and Bachelor's levels. Currently (2024/2025), I am supervising 4 PhD students and 11 MSc students. Most of these students are part of the MERGE project (Music Emotion Recognition, Next Generation 2022-2025), funded by FCT (PTDC/CCI-COM/3171/2021), for which I serve as the Technical Coordinator and lead several tasks.
Personally, besides being interested in anything technology and gadgets (Kindle,...), I'm also interested in sports (Benfica, Football), music (Bruce Springsteen (above all),...), cinema ( It's hard to choose. There are so many), TV (Seinfeld, Two and a Half Men, 60 minutes, ...), nature, travel, summer, family, friends :)
Important Links
- CISUC Page
- CISUC-MIR Page
- Ciência Vitae: B81A-CB99-A4DF
- ORCID: 0000-0002-3010-2732
- Researcher ID: L-9369-2017
- ResearchGate Page
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
Affiliation
- School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
- University of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra