Short Bio

I am an Assistant Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). I am also a Senior Researcher at GAIPS / INESC-ID. My research interests include the following topics: multiagent systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and real options. I am interested in each of these topics individually, as well as their intersections. Check out my Google Scholar profile and my Research Gate profile.

Before moving to Lisbon, I was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK (with a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship from the European Commission). My research at Lancaster was focused on building tools (based on machine learning techniques and multiagent systems) for aspect-oriented requirements engineering.

From 2005 to 2008, I was a post-doc in the e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. My research at CMU was focused on developing trading agents and agents for decentralized trust management. I was also part of a team that developed the CMieux agent for the Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC-SCM). The agent reached the TAC-SCM finals in 2007 and 2008, won the CS50 Exhibition tournament organized in April 2006, and achieved first place in the 2008 TAC-SCM procurement challenge.

I received a PhD from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. My research work was focused on trading agents and agent-oriented software engineering. My PhD advisors were Ruy Milidiú and Carlos Lucena. While at PUC-Rio, I also designed the LearnAgents for the TAC Travel Game, achieving third place in the 2004 competition.