Catarina Silva
Researcher at Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolCatarina Silva is an evolutionary biologist and researcher with eight years of interdisciplinary experience applying machine learning and advanced analytics to marine population dynamics, fisheries and aquaculture sustainability. She combines a PhD in Population Genetics with hands-on development of deep learning pipelines for species identification and biomass estimation, delivering tools used in citizen science and aquaculture monitoring. Her work spans academic postdocs and industry roles, from building NLP and data pipelines to training computers to measure fish from images, linking ecological theory with production-ready ML solutions. Based in Coimbra, Portugal, she has a track record of translating complex ecological processes into practical monitoring systems and often integrates mobile-app–collected data for scalable biodiversity insights.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Population Genetics, PhD, Population Genetics at Victoria University of WellingtonMSc, Coastal and Oceanic Systems, MSc, Coastal and Oceanic Systems at Universidade Federal do ParanáBSc, Biology, BSc, Biology at Universidade de Aveiro / University of Aveiro
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
image-processing8
python7
computer-vision7
machine-learning6
effort5
pipeline2
bioinformatics2
genomics2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fishsizeproject/Course-MLforImageProcessing
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Website for the online course on using ML tools for image processing
Contributions:233 commits, 1 PR, 161 pushes in 3 months
pythoncomputer-visionmachine-learningonline-courseimage-processing
FishAIConsortium/website
May 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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