Summary
António Lopes is a researcher and engineering leader based in Lisbon with 11+ years building in-house web systems, APIs and integrations while leading cross-functional teams in academia. He directs Information Systems Development at ISCTE-IUL and conducts applied AI research at Instituto das Telecomunicações, focusing on generative AI, autonomous agents and machine learning with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. António blends hands-on full‑stack experience (PHP, Java, JS, MySQL) and systems architecture with teaching machine learning and AI courses, connecting research insights directly into production services. He has a track record coordinating funded research projects and explores physical computing and distributed intelligent nodes for real-world sensing and robotics simulations. Off the beaten path, he hosts an award-winning Portuguese science & tech podcast, showing an ability to translate complex topics for broader audiences.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
M.Sc., Computer Science Engineering and Telecomunications, M.Sc., Computer Science Engineering and Telecomunications at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
English, Portuguese