Luís Simões
Lead Data Scientist Co-founder
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLuís Simões is a Lead Data Scientist and co-founder with 15 years of experience applying AI to aerospace and autonomous systems. He combines academic rigor from doctoral training in AI at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with hands-on industry impact through ML Analytics and collaborations with ESA and Airbus. His work spans meta-learning, evolutionary algorithms, representation learning and swarm/autonomy, producing award-winning research including two best paper awards and a Humies Gold for human-competitive AI. Notable projects include an autonomous spacecraft landing autopilot with hazard detection, ML models of spacecraft operations for ESA-ESOC, and participation in multiple GTOC challenges. He won the 2021 Ariel ML Data Challenge and joined the consortium for ESA’s Ariel mission, reflecting a rare mix of competitive research and mission-driven engineering. Based in Lisbon, he is comfortable moving solutions from novel research to production-ready systems for space and robotics applications.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral training (PhD candidate) Artificial Intelligence, Doctoral training (PhD candidate) Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Licentiate degree Computer Science, Licentiate degree Computer Science at Universidade do Algarve
Github Skills (31)
python9
nlopt9
numba8
convolution8
numerics8
interpolation8
mpi8
ndarray8
blas8
linear-algebra8
fundamental7
scipy7
gradient-descent7
lapack7
numpy7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lfsimoes/mars_express__esn
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
lfsimoes/beam_paco__gtoc5
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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