João Ferreira
Data Scientist
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Ferreira is a Data Scientist with 11 years of experience combining deep academic training (PhD in Bioinformatics) and applied work in Medical Informatics, specializing in Data Science, Knowledge Representation and NLP for biomedical question-answering. He balances industry roles at FAIRTIQ and consulting at Publab with research experience at LASIGE, where he worked on biomedical ontologies and semantic similarity. As a former university professor, he brings strong teaching and communication skills across CS and bioinformatics topics, translating complex research into practical solutions. Based in Lisbon, João focuses on building QA systems for biomedical content, blending rigorous scientific methods with production-ready data science. A detail that sets him apart is his long trajectory from biochemistry through a PhD to hands-on NLP systems, enabling him to bridge wet-lab concepts and computational knowledge representation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Distinction and Honours, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Distinction and Honours at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Escola Secundária Pedro Alexandrino
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (162)
apache-spark10
parser10
python10
hadoop10
linter10
genomics10
r10
big-data10
cvs10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
spark10
sequence-alignment10
apache10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jdferreira/sleepyjson
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
jdferreira/safe-parser
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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