I’m Hugo, a Ph.D. Candidate at Nova Information Management School in Lisbon, Portugal. My Ph.D. project focuses on automating the retrieval and visual presentation of legal precedents. I employ state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) for this purpose. Currently, I’m investigating the effects of summarization on the quality of embeddings for textual similarity assessment.

Professional background

I’ve journeyed through multiple positions, such as CTO, Data Scientist, and Project Manager, with 15+ years in the Insurance industry. During this period, I got involved both in hands-on and team management roles, successfully delivering impactful projects. Besides applied research, I have a passion for teaching and have had experience as an adjunct lecturer on Business Cases with Data Science, Data Science for Marketing, and Data Mining Descriptive Methods courses.

Education

1. Ph.D. in Information Management, major in Data Science, Nova IMS (2021 - Present)
2. M.Sc. in Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Nova IMS (2019 - 2022)
3. B.Sc. in Communications Engineering, IME, (2003 - 2007)

Interests

• Natural language processing
• Large Language models
• Transformers
• Machine learning
• Legal tech