Pedro Ferreira
Bioinformatician
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Ferreira is a bioinformatician and data scientist based in Porto with a decade of research experience applying machine learning and data mining to clinical and biomedical problems. He holds an MSc in Informatics Engineering and completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences focused on bioinformatics, combining strong computational skills with domain knowledge in health informatics and cancer research. From 2010–2018 he led ML-driven clinical projects at CRACS-INESC TEC and since 2018 has contributed to translational bioinformatics initiatives at i3S, including the BioData project. His toolkit spans inductive logic programming, Dockerized workflows, and reproducible data analysis, enabling collaboration across research and clinical teams. Notably, his master’s thesis on predicting breast cancer presaged a career-long focus on applying ML to real-world clinical datasets. He balances deep methodological expertise with hands-on implementation to move models from concept to usable research tools.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto | FCUPDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at ICBAS- Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical SciencesEnglish Language and Literature General, English Language and Literature General at University of Cambridge
english (cae and fce certificates from cambridge university), Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics10
evolution10
biology9
docker8
data-science2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pedroferreira84/pedroferreira.github.io
May 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pedroferreira84/hello-world
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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