João Pereira is currently a PDEng Trainee in Data Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he develops data science projects for industry. Most of the time he works on machine learning and is broadly interested in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
His interests consist of applying cutting-edge AI techniques to solve difficult problems raised in the context of real-world applications. João Pereira has been working on AI applications involving time series, text, images, and videos, in the context of areas like energy, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and AI for social good.
Prior to joining TU/e as a PDEng trainee, João Pereira completed a M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), where he did his master thesis on deep learning. Meanwhile, he developed applied research on deep learning within the Signal and Image Processing Group at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisbon).