He received his PhD in Physics in 2021 from the University of Minho. He studied the properties of the interaction between the top quark and the Higgs boson, analysing data collected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

From 2021 to 2024, he worked as a data scientist at DTx CoLab on various digital transformation projects, delivering data-driven system prototypes to industrial partners. During part of this period, he coordinated the Data Science and Machine Learning group.

Since 2024, he has been a lecturer and researcher at the Portuguese Catholic University in Braga.

His main research interests are efficient machine learning on data and domain-informed machine learning. In particular, he is interested in methods that make neural networks more data-efficient by taking advantage of known domain dynamics and symmetries. These include self-supervised learning, equivariant networks, physics-informed neural networks, and data augmentation techniques. He is also interested in applications of these methods to problems in science and industry.
 

João Correia

É Doutorado em Informática (2024) e Mestre em Bioinformática (2018) pela Universidade do Minho, e Licenciado em Bioengenharia (2016) pela Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. Co-fundador e responsável pelo desenvolvimento de quimioinformática na startup OmniumAI, é também Professor Auxiliar Convidado na Universidade Católica Portuguesa, no centro regional de Braga, onde leciona unidades curriculares nas áreas de inteligência artificial e ciência de dados. Os seus interesses de investigação centram-se na aplicação de metodologias de inteligência artificial a dados químicos e biológicos. É autor de várias publicações científicas em revistas e atas de conferências internacionais.

José Miguel Pereira Vilaça

He completed his PhD in Fundamentals of Computing at the University of Minho in 2009 with the thesis “Visual Functional Programming - An Approach Based On Interaction Nets”. He previously completed his degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2004, also at the University of Minho.
He is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Universidade
Catholic University, teaching computer science, data science, mathematics and multimedia.
multimedia.
He is also director of the Institute of Computing and Data Science.
He works on the application of technologies for a better world.
 

Sónia Catarina da Silva Cruz

She has a PhD in Educational Sciences, specializing in Educational Technology, from the University of Minho. She has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University (Braga) since 2011 and a researcher at the Educational Technology Laboratory of the University of Coimbra.
She has developed a model for integrating Web 2.0 tools in order to guide students from consumers to producers of online information. Her research interests include the integration of ICT into the curriculum and learning and the construction of digital educational resources, particularly for mobile devices. Her latest research concerns the creation of gamified activities for learning History, her field of study, as well as the production of content based on apps with Artificial Intelligence technology. She is the author of several book chapters and articles published in national and international conference proceedings. In her professional activities, she has interacted with collaborators in co-authoring scientific papers.
 

Tiago Martins

He holds a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Minho.
He is a guest lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University and other higher education institutions.
institutions. His main interests are in the areas of serious games, physical computing, computer vision, artificial intelligence and media arts. He is the author and editor of several international publications, including books, book chapters and conference proceedings.
He has published in several international scientific journals and conference proceedings indexed by ISI - Institute for Scientific Information, SCOPUS, among other references, and several of these publications have already been cited by the scientific community.