Gonçalo Faria
Graduate Research Assistant
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGonçalo Faria is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at the Paul G. Allen School with eight years of applied AI research and engineering experience spanning academia and industry. He has led AI efforts in robust scene understanding for video as Lead AI Engineer and worked on differentiable causal discovery, stylistic text register conversion, and computer vision architectures in research roles. With a strong academic record from Instituto Superior Técnico and ongoing doctoral work at University of Washington, he bridges rigorous theory and practical system-building. Based in Seattle, he combines production-focused engineering with deep research instincts, often tackling problems that require both novel algorithms and reliable deployment. An interesting thread through his career is repeatedly translating research prototypes into resilient, real-world components for perception and language tasks.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 17/20, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 17/20 at Universidade do MinhoBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Universidade da Beira InteriorMaster's degree, Data Science and Engineering, 18/20, Master's degree, Data Science and Engineering, 18/20 at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (16)
linux6
bash6
zsh5
shell5
macos5
rust4
warp3
gpu3
natural-language-processing2
language-processing2
machine-learning2
nlp2
php1
fairness-ml1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Goncalo-Faria/StackOverflowData
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:217 commits in 3 months
goncalorafaria/learning-inner-consensus
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:122 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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