I'm a PhD candidate researching Natural Language Processing (NLP) at UPorto, advised by Prof. Alípio Jorge. I've been entranced with NLP since being fooled (briefly) by an ELIZA chatbot in my impressionable early teens. After some years as a founder of an NLP startup, I returned to academia to focus on research. My goal is to help bridge neural language models with probabilistic rule-based reasoning towards more robust and interpretable NLP.

I'm also a researcher at INESCTEC-LIAAD working on biomedical applications of NLP. Besides research, I enjoy spending time with my twin sons, reading non-fiction, and listening to podcasts.