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 (104)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
U-Shift/SiteSelection
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Script for a site selection - Streets4All Project
Contributions:2 releases, 13 PRs, 188 pushes in 1 year 10 months
temospena/Rnotebook
Dec 2019 - Dec 2023
a compilation of R chunks
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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