Luís Rita
Research Associate In AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuís Rita is a biomedical engineer and AI researcher with eight years of experience translating complex biomedical problems into deployable AI solutions, currently a Research Associate in AI at Imperial College London and CEO & Co-Founder of CycleAI. He holds a PhD in Computational Medicine from Imperial and combines academic rigor—teaching ML and leading cancer research projects—with hands-on startup product building (a safety-focused micromobility route planner piloted with Bird and supported by Microsoft for Startups). A Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus and former Global Shaper, he mentors under-represented students and supervises MSc interns, reflecting a strong commitment to community and talent development. Luís’s background in bioinformatics and phylogenetic tool development, plus prolific technical outreach through Towards Data Science and maker-focused content, highlights a rare blend of translational research, engineering, and public-facing science communication.
8 years of coding experience
Mechatronic Systems for Rehabilitation, Mechatronic Systems for Rehabilitation at Sorbonne UniversitéDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Medicine at Imperial College LondonCiências e Tecnologias, Ciências e Tecnologias at Escola Secundária Eça de QueirósIntegrated Master's Degree Biomedical Engineering, Integrated Master's Degree Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Spanish, Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (8)
phylogenetic-trees10
benchmark9
beast8
network-analysis7
algorithm6
parse6
database4
sql-database2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
databill86/HyperFoods
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Parse Recipe1M+ database to retrieve recipes with the higher number of anticancer molecules.
Contributions:122 commits in 9 days
moleculesrecipesdatabaseparseretrieve
CycleAI/CycleAI
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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