Cristiano Patrício

Cristiano Patrício received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (17/20) in 2019 from the Polytechnic of Guarda and his M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (18/20) in 2021 from the University of Beira Interior. He received 1 Merit Scholarship in the 2018/2019 academic year and was one of the winners of the Huawei Scholarship Program in 2023. Cristiano is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Beira Interior under a Ph.D. research grant from the Portuguese national funding agency for science (FCT). During his third year of Ph.D., Cristiano spent four months as a visiting Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin, hosted by the EIDOSLab research group. He is currently a Research Assistant at INESC TEC and an Invited Assistant at the University of Beira Interior. Previously, Cristiano participated in developing solutions for the Altice Portugal Foundation (MagicContact Web) projects and for the “Perception for a Service Robot” project of NOVA LINCS. His work focuses on developing inherently interpretable deep learning models for pathology diagnosis in medical imaging. His research interests include the topics of Explainable AI, Deep Learning and Medical Image Analysis. He authored 9 research papers in international conferences and journals.

  Experience

  Education

  Research

• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2023
• Workshop on Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing (iMIMIC) at MICCAI, 2023
• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2022
• Workshop on Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing (iMIMIC) at MICCAI, 2022
• IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2022
• EAI GOODTECHS 2021 - EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• Pattern Recognition
• NeuroImage
• Scientific Reports

  Students

  Projects

  Interests

• Reading
• Chess
• Running
• Playing Guitar/Accordion
• DYI Activities @ Home

"Hard work always pays off, whatever you do." - Dustin Lynch

"If you want to master something, teach it. The more you teach, the better you learn. Teaching is a powerful tool to learning." - Richard P. Feynman

  Prizes & Certifications

• Winner of the 2nd edition of the Huawei Portugal University Scholarship Program, Lisbon, Portugal (2023)
• Linear Algebra for Machine Learning and Data Science, Coursera (2023)
• Certificate of Pedagogical Skills (CCP) N.º F733564/2022, IEFP (2022)
• Reviewer for the conference EAI Goodtechs (2021)
• AI for Medical Diagnosis, Coursera (2021)
• Optimizing TF Models For Deployment with TensorRT, Coursera (2021)
• Convolutional Neural Networks, Coursera (2021)
• Structuring Machine Learning Projects, Coursera (2021)
• Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization, Coursera (2020)
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Coursera (2020)
• Academic Merit Scholarship, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, Guarda, Portugal (2019)
• Robô Bombeiro, “Mr. Robot” Team, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, Guarda, Portugal (2018)
• Excellence and Honour Award, Escola Secundária da Sé, Guarda, Portugal (2016)
• Training on the use, operation, and maintenance of the Fiber Galvo FL laser machine (2014)
• Training on the use, operation, and maintenance of the Speedy 100R laser machine (2012)

  Volunteering