Manuel Guimarães
AI Engineer at EDP
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolManuel Guimarães is an AI Engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic research and production systems, recently completing a PhD in Affective Computing and Intelligent Virtual Agents at Instituto Superior Técnico. He has strong C#/.NET expertise and maintains the data-driven libraries born from his thesis while extending their pipelines with Python for real-world use. Manuel has led AI development in game-focused and industry teams, including senior and lead roles at Mr Kite and work on GenAI teams for EDP/Closer Consulting. He co-founded GameDev Técnico, growing a student game development club into a 50+ member organization, reflecting his knack for community building and cross-disciplinary collaboration. A recognized teacher and nominated top PhD student at INESC-ID, he combines rigorous research, published work, and hands-on engineering to make socially and emotionally believable virtual characters. Manuel is a fast learner who thrives at the intersection of HCI, games, and deployable AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Advanced Studies Diploma in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Passed with distinction, PhD, Advanced Studies Diploma in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Passed with distinction at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Rexrex/rexrex.github.io
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
A minimal Jekyll Theme to host your resume (CV)
Contributions:291 pushes in 1 month
hostjekyll-theme-minimaljekylljekyll-themecv-resume
GAIPS/FAtiMA-Toolkit-UnityDemo
Dec 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 70 commits, 66 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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