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