Hugo Da Silva
Chair at IEEE EMBS Portugal Chapter
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolHugo Da Silva is an innovation-driven researcher and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience blending academic rigor and product-focused engineering in physiological computing and biosignals. As co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of PLUX and a driving force behind the low-cost BITalino toolkit, he has translated signal-processing research into accessible hardware and software for education and applied health. Based in Lisbon, he combines his long-term research role at Instituto de Telecomunicações and an invited professorship at Instituto Superior Técnico with leadership in IEEE EMBS Portugal, now serving as Chair. Holding an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering and pursuing a PhD, Hugo uniquely straddles system engineering, pattern recognition and practical device commercialization—turning lab prototypes into market-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of SetúbalDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (21)
feature-extraction10
signal-processing9
dtw9
eda9
digital-signal-processing9
evolution9
bioinformatics9
python8
pitch8
api8
appseed7
convolution7
jinja25
camp5
data-science4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BITalinoWorld/python-lab-guides
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:97 commits, 95 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
BITalinoWorld/python-serverbit
Jul 2014 - Jan 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
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