(maybe not so interesting) news
2026
Started my PhD!
Officially started my PhD in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra.
Defended my MSc Dissertation!
Defended my MSc dissertation: “From Scientific Literature to Structured Reasoning: Automated Supervision for Evidence-Grounded LLMs in Portuguese”, obtaining a maximum grade of 20/20, and officially became a MSc in Informatics Engineering and AI.
Attended LxMLS 2026
Attended the 16th Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS) at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, 20–25 July 2026.
Live Demo @ Encontro Ciência e Inovação 2026
Demonstrated the work developed at CISUC under the AMALIA project at Encontro Ciência e Inovação 2026 in Lisbon.
Live Demo @ AMALIA Official Launch
Demonstrated the work developed at CISUC for the AMALIA language model project at its official launch in Lisbon.
Poster Presentation @ LREC 2026
Presented “CorEGe-PT: Compiling a Large Corpus of Academic Texts in Portuguese” at LREC 2026 in Palma.
Poster Presentation @ NSLP 2026
Presented “Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Scientific Knowledge QA in European Portuguese” at the NSLP 2026 workshop, co-located with LREC 2026.
2025
Honorable Mention at SPARK Awards 2025!
Received an Honorable Mention for Best MSc publication at the SPARK Awards 2025, held at the Responsible AI Forum 2025.
Poster Presentation @ INLG 2025
Presented “Cognitive Flow: An LLM-Automated Framework for Quantifying Reasoning Distillation” at INLG 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Poster Presentation @ LASI Meeting 2025
Presented a poster at the 2nd Annual Meeting of LASI.