Maria Francisco
Associate Senior Lecturer Assistant Professor In Artificial Intelligence
Uppsala, Sweden
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Top SchoolMaria Francisco is an Associate Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Uppsala University with a decade of experience bridging research and teaching in constraint programming, optimisation, and AI. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has contributed to pharmaceutical bioinformatics through postdoctoral work, applying mathematical and statistical modeling to pharmacological systems. A seasoned educator, she has led core AI courses and developed curricula in programming and semantics while supervising advanced topics like unsupervised learning. Maria’s background spans academic research stints in Singapore and industry software engineering early in her career, reflecting a pragmatic blend of theory and application. Colleagues value her for deep expertise in automata theory and constraint methods paired with an uncommon fluency in both pedagogical design and interdisciplinary collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BEng in Computer Engineer, Computer Engineer, BEng in Computer Engineer, Computer Engineer at Universidad Simón BolívarExchange Student, Software Engineering, Exchange Student, Software Engineering at Tongji UniversityChinese Language, Swedish Language, Chinese Language, Swedish Language at Högskolan DalarnaPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (12)
constraint10
constraint-programming10
layout10
experimental-design10
plaid10
artificial-intelligence9
machine-learning8
deep-learning7
hugo-theme6
benchmarking6
hugo6
benchmark6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andreina-francisco/csplib
Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
benchmarkbenchmarking
pharmbio/plaid
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
PLAID (Plate Layouts using Artificial Intelligence Design) is a flexible constraint-programming model representing the Plate Layout Design problem.
Contributions:2 reviews, 248 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 3 months
constraint-programmingmultiplate-layout-designlayoutsplateartificial
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