Diana Sousa
AI NLP Researcher at European Commission
Ispra, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolDiana Sousa is an AI/NLP researcher with nine years of experience and seven years focused on natural language processing, currently working as a Research Project Officer at the European Commission on Europe Media Monitor and text mining initiatives. She holds a PhD in Computer Science (Distinction and Honors) from the University of Lisbon and has a strong interdisciplinary background spanning bioinformatics and biochemistry. Diana’s work blends deep learning for medical translation at Unbabel with graph-based disease prediction using MIMIC data during a research stint at the University of Glasgow, highlighting her strength in applying NLP to healthcare. She has taught programming and big data courses, mentored students, and driven research projects from scholarship-funded PhD work to EU-scale deployments, demonstrating both technical depth and practical impact. Notably, her trajectory shows a consistent focus on bridging domain knowledge in biology with advanced NLP methods to tackle real-world, high-stakes text mining problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Approved with Distinction and Honors, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Approved with Distinction and Honors at University of Lisbon
French, English, Portuguese, Italian
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Github Skills (16)
relation-extraction10
biomedical10
relation10
biomedical-ontologies10
ontologies9
extraction9
mer8
phonetics7
acl7
deep-learning6
computational-linguistics6
entity6
natural-language-processing5
collections5
nlp4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lasigeBioTM/PGR
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
lasigeBioTM/K-BiOnt
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 5 months
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