Daniel Loureiro
Staff Machine Learning Scientist at Zendesk
Portugal
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Top SchoolDaniel Loureiro is a Staff Machine Learning Scientist based in Portugal with 10 years of experience bridging academic NLP research and product-grade AI. He holds a PhD from the University of Porto and has first-author publications in ACL, EMNLP, AIJ and others with 1k+ citations, reflecting a deep track record in sense representation and temporal adaptation of language models. After founding and exiting a VC-backed startup focused on content recommendation, he led data science and product efforts across startups and academia, gaining hands-on full-stack and cloud deployment experience. At Zendesk he now leads RAG product work, applying retrieval-augmented generation to real-world agents and customer workflows. He combines leadership of small engineering teams with rigorous research instincts—evident in organizing shared tasks like TempoWiC—and practical skills in synthetic data, image integration, and production ML pipelines. Outside work he lives in sunny Portugal and balances technical depth with entrepreneurial grit and family life.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colégio Luso-FrancêsMachine Learning, Machine Learning at Lisbon Machine Learning School 2013Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
python10
word-sense-disambiguation10
wordnet10
paper10
nlp10
wsd10
rouge10
natural-language-processing10
contextual-embeddings10
lightfm10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bioinformatics10
biomedical10
recommender9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danlou/danlou.github.io
May 2016 - Feb 2023
My personal blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 9 months
jekyllmy-personal-blog
danlou/bert-disambiguation
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
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