Rui Lopes
Founding Engineer Head Of AI at DataLinks
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolRui Lopes is a founding engineer and Head of AI with 14 years of experience translating biologically inspired computing and artificial life research into practical ML solutions across industries from oil & gas to precision agriculture. He moved from a strong academic track—PhD and postdoctoral research, invited professorships and conference publications—into industry leadership roles shaping AI strategy, compliance, and cross-disciplinary partnerships. At Critical Software he progressed to Principal AI Engineer before founding the AI practice at DataLinks, blending hands-on engineering with team building and research collaborations. His portfolio includes applied operations research (capacity allocation, inventory management) and social-science informed ML, reflecting a knack for bringing rigorous theory to messy real-world problems. Off-hours he pursues unusual inspirations—replicating biological mechanisms in algorithms while playing the tuba and following Formula 1—hinting at a creative, systems-oriented problem solver.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science and Technology at Universidade de Coimbra
English, French
Github Skills (196)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rmlopes/code
May 2012 - Sep 2018
Evolutionary Developmental Computational Devices
Contributions:211 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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rmlopes/deap
Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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