Gonçalo Valadão

Gonçalo Valadão Matias completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011 at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico. He obtained his Master's degree in Geographic Information Systems in 2006 and his Bachelor's degree in Technological Physics Engineering in 2000, both also from the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico. He is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and a Guest Assistant Professor (Professor Adjunto Convidado) at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. He serves as a laboratory director at Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias Autónoma Techlab and as a Deputy Director at Department of Engineering and Computer Science, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. He has published 4 journal articles and 9 conference papers. His research interests lie in the areas of computational sciences with emphasis on machine learning and its applications. In his Curriculum Vitae, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific production include: phase unwrapping; computer vision; Markov random fields; energy minimization; graph cuts; image processing; optimization; submodularity; artificial intelligence; big data; drug repurposing; machine learning; personalized medicine.