I am a Machine Learning engineer and researcher, with a particular interest in Physical AI, AI4Science and
Reinforcement Learning. In the past I co-founded inductiva.ai
, a
cloud-HPC platform for engineers, and I was one of the initial team members of the
AlphaFold
project at
Google DeepMind
. Prior to that, I worked in the Query Formulation
team at Microsoft Bing
and did research in Machine Learning and Computer
Vision at Idiap Research Institute
and
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausane
, both in Switzerland. I did my
undergraduate studies in Informatics and Computing Engineering at FEUP
, in
Portugal, where I am originally from.
I am launching AI4Science Studio, a boutique AI studio focused on challenging R&D projects in Physical AI and AI for Science. I am accepting inquiries for project partnerships starting in May 2026. Feel free to reach out via LinkedIn.
Mar 2026
Released fastflowlm-docker, a Docker container for running LLMs on AMD Ryzen AI NPU under Linux. The official support was limited to Windows, but Claude Opus 4.6 figured out how to build it succesfully in Linux!
Blog
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."Mahatma Gandhi
Check out my blog where I share thoughts and ideas and things I am learning about
at each moment. Here are some recent and old highlights:
"Truth is what stands the test of experience."Albert Einstein
Main publications are listed below, but see also my Google Scholar profile for
an up to date list.
AlphaFold 1 / Computational Biology
Nature
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
Andrew W Senior, Richard Evans, John Jumper, James Kirkpatrick, Laurent Sifre, Tim Green, Chongli Qin, Augustin Žídek, Alexander WR Nelson, Alex Bridgland, Hugo Penedones, Stig Petersen, Karen Simonyan, Steve Crossan, Pushmeet Kohli, David T Jones, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Demis Hassabis
Protein structure prediction using multiple deep neural networks in the 13th Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP13)
Andrew W Senior, Richard Evans, John Jumper, James Kirkpatrick, Laurent Sifre, Tim Green, Chongli Qin, Augustin Žídek, Alexander WR Nelson, Alex Bridgland, Hugo Penedones, Stig Petersen, Karen Simonyan, Steve Crossan, Pushmeet Kohli, David T Jones, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Demis Hassabis
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2019
"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it."Mark Twain
In 2011, I wrote a book in Portuguese, expressing my views of the world.
In a collection of very small chapters, I touch a wide range of topics, such as: democracy, economy, education, entrepreneurship, transparency, sustainability, peace, etc.
If you are interested, you can read the full book in digital formats for free, or order a
paperback copy.
Open-source projects
"What I cannot create, I do not understand."Richard Feynman
"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together."Doug McIlroy
I enjoy building tools and exploring interesting problems through code. Here are some of my public projects
on GitHub:
Lua code for learning pose-aware visual representations to improve object classification accuracy. Code for the research paper "Improving Object Classification using Pose Information".
A character-based n-grams language model for probabilistic query autocomplete. Given a text prefix, it suggests the most likely completions based on a trained model.
Docker container for running large language models on AMD Ryzen AI NPU under Linux using FastFlowLM. Built entirely by Claude AI via GitHub Copilot CLI.
LinkedIn profile
45 graus: Como a IA está a mudar a ciência
Adaptive Temporal-Difference Learning for Policy Evaluation with Per-State Uncertainty Estimates
pyfacelabel