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  • I joined the CSE Department at Instituto Superior Técnico in the Fall of 2021.

Bio

Flávio Martins holds a PhD in Computer Science (2018) from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa for research on mining newsworthy events from social media, in collaboration with the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. At Instituto Superior Técnico he teaches courses on Databases, Information Systems, and Information Retrieval.

Flávio Martins publishes at top-tier conferences such as ACM WSDM, ACM ICTIR, ECIR, and WWW and is a regular member of program committees for these and other conferences in similar areas such as SIGIR, ACMMM, and KDD. He has participated in several international research projects in consortia with top institutions such as the BBC and Carnegie Mellon University. He is an integrated member of INESC-ID (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa). His research has received awards and distinctions such as an ACM Intl Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval 2018 nomination for best paper. His work on the news misinformation project Revisionista.pt received an award from Arquivo.pt in 2019 and best demo award in the European Conference on Information Retrieval 2020.

Contact

Flávio Martins

INESC-ID
Rua Alves Redol 9
1000-029 Lisboa
Portugal

Phone: +351 213 100 267
Office: 436 (ext. 2267)

Email: flavio.f.martins[at]tecnico.ulisboa.pt