Rui Magalhães
Data Scientist
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRui Magalhães is a Data Scientist with eight years of experience applying deep learning and LLMs to real-world problems, currently driving ML initiatives at MEDICARE Portugal after a senior Deep Learning role at Thirona. His work bridges research and production: he produced publishable advances in test-time augmentation for uncertainty estimation in autonomous driving and contributed to medical imaging segmentation research during internships. Trained as an aerospace engineer with international study stints at RWTH Aachen and KU Leuven, he brings strong quantitative modelling skills and a systems mindset to ML problems. Rui blends academic rigor with commercial delivery, comfortable moving models from novel research into impactful healthcare and industrial applications. An unusual detail: he has pursued medical studies earlier in his career, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on clinical and technical challenges.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ATHENS Programme, Sports, Building and City Aerodynamics, ATHENS Programme, Sports, Building and City Aerodynamics at KU LeuvenErasmus Exchange Programme, 17/20, Erasmus Exchange Programme, 17/20 at RWTH Aachen UniversityMaster's degree (Unfinished), Medicine, Master's degree (Unfinished), Medicine at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do PortoMaster of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 17/20, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 17/20 at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (90)
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Github contributions (5)
U-Shift/SiteSelection
Apr 2023 - Nov 2025
An R package to identify complex areas suitable for street space reallocation
Contributions:2 releases, 13 PRs, 188 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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U-Shift/Declives-RedeViaria
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Mapas com os declives de uma rede viária
Contributions:2 releases, 84 commits, 82 pushes in 1 year
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