activities
Awards, talks, and community service.
Invited Talks
- AMALIA: An Open Source Large Language Model for European Portuguese. V APRP Spring Meeting, Aveiro. 2026.
- Deep Learning for Multimedia Understanding. Doctoral Program in Digital Media, FCT NOVA. 2025, 2026.
- GlórIA — A Large Language Model for European Portuguese. Center for Responsible AI Workshop: Foundation Models and LLMs, Lisbon. July 2024.
- GlórIA — A Large Language Model for European Portuguese. Amazon PT — 8th AWS Partners Executive Briefing, Belém, Portugal. March 2024.
- Navy Sailor — Multimodal AI Dialog Systems for Marine Operations. REPMUS 2024, Portuguese Navy, Tróia. 2024.
- Bridging Vision and Language over Time: Temporal Cross-Modal Embeddings. Industry Talk, Farfetch, Portugal. October 2020.
- Deep Multimodal and Cross-Modal Embeddings. Webinar, Data Science Portugal (DSPT). July 2020.
- Bridging Vision and Language over Time with Neural Cross-Modal Embeddings. NOVA LINCS Research Seminar, FCT NOVA. January 2020.
Community Service
Area Chair
- ACM Multimedia (2022 – present)
- ACL ARR — Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (2025 – present)
Conference Organisation
| Role | Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Collab-a-thon Co-Chair | ECIR 2028, Porto (invited) | 2028 |
| Workshop Chair | ACM Multimedia 2026, Brazil | 2026 |
| Workshop Organiser (MUWS) | ACM Multimedia 2025, Dublin | 2025 |
| Oral Session Chair (Vision & Language) | ACM Multimedia 2025, Dublin | 2025 |
| Oral Session Chair (Brave New Ideas) | ACM Multimedia 2023, Ottawa | 2023 |
| Local Chair & Conference Bidder | ACM Multimedia 2022, Lisbon | 2022 |
| Organiser, TRECVID Linking Task | TRECVID 2018, Gaithersburg, MD | 2018 |
Selected Conference Programme Committee and Journal Reviewing
- ECIR 2026
- EPIA 2025
- PATTERNS (2025)
- AAAI 2024
- LREC-COLING 2024
- ACL Rolling Review (2023–present)
- IJCAI 2023
- IJCAI-ECAI 2022
- ACM Multimedia 2021
- EMNLP 2021
- ACL-IJCNLP 2021
- ACM Multimedia 2020
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) (2020–present)
- ACM SIGIR 2018
- ICMR 2016–2018
- ICME 2017
- TPDL 2018
Awards and Distinctions
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2nd place (Runner-up), Amazon Trusted AI Challenge |
| 2025 | Best Poster, RECPAD 2025 — Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition |
| 2023 | 1st place, Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge. First European academic team to win. |
| 2022 | 2nd place (Runner-up), Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge |
| 2021 | Distinctive mention, NewsImages task, MediaEval 2021 |
| 2019 | Finalist Top-3, AIIA — Altice Innovation Award |
| 2019 | Student Travel Grant, ACM Multimedia 2019 |
Memberships
- ACM SIGMM
- SIGMM EU Chapter
- APRP — Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões