Summary
Nelson Silva is a senior lecturer and interdisciplinary researcher based in Graz, Austria, with over 12 years of focused experience and more than 28 years across business development, knowledge management and applied research. He leads work at the intersection of adaptive user interfaces, real-time eye-tracking and AR to create eye-gaze–driven support systems for General Movements Assessment, aiming to help detect early motor biomarkers of cerebral palsy and to retrain non-expert and expert assessors. His background spans industry-grade visual analytics, mixed-reality UIs, recommender systems and production/PLM tools, reflected in roles from Fraunhofer labs to Know-Center and recent academic appointments at IT:U and the Medical University of Graz. Comfortable coding across Java, C#, C++, Python and web stacks, he combines hands-on prototyping with project leadership and proposal writing. A PhD-level computer scientist, he brings a rare blend of clinical-neuroscience collaboration and practical HCI engineering, and he actively seeks to expand interdisciplinary networks.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master Studies, Engineering of Product Design and Development, 19, Master Studies, Engineering of Product Design and Development, 19 at Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Technische Universität Graz
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German