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Alcides Fonseca
LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
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Alcides Fonseca is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Alcides has a PhD, a MSc and a BSc from the University of Coimbra. His research covers the intersection of Machine Learning and Programming Languages, having build several programming languages and related tools, namely with liquid types and genetic programming. Apart from research, Alcides has been a consultant for several startups (Dragonboat, Genomed, SmashTech, Sentilant, Spero, Burocratik) and multinational companies (Ogilvy & Mather).
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João Magalhães
NOVA LINCS, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
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João Magalhães (PhD, Imperial College London, UK, 2008) is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. His research interests cover the different problems of vision and language understanding, in particular: foundational vision and language models, multimedia search, multimodal conversational AI, and multimodal temporal models. He has coordinated and participated in several research projects, where he aims to generalize his vision and language research to solve real-world problems across different domains. The work of his group has been awarded or nominated for several awards and distinctions: in 2023 and 2022 his group was awarded the 1st place and 2nd place respectively in the Amazon Science Alexa TaskBot Challenge, a conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal (voice and vision) user data, in 2020 a best paper award at the Portuguese NLP conference (PROPOR), in 2018 two nominations for best paper at ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval and at ACM International Conference in Multimedia Retrieval.
