Rui Rua
Postdoctoral Research Scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolRui Rua is a postdoctoral research scientist and full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic research and applied systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidade do Minho with a background in distributed systems, cryptography and applications engineering, and has served as invited assistant professor and researcher at HASLab / INESC TEC. Currently based at NYU Abu Dhabi, Rui combines rigorous research— including a visiting stint applying deep learning to Bitcoin market prediction—with hands-on development, delivering reproducible code and prototypes. He is comfortable moving between theory and implementation, mentoring students while shipping production-ready software. An understated strength is his ability to translate cryptographic and distributed-systems insights into practical engineering solutions for real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engenharia Informática, Master's degree, Engenharia Informática at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (33)
web-crawler10
scraper10
webscraping10
crawler10
markdown9
bytecode-manipulation9
leiningen9
okhttp9
gradle-plugin9
compile8
ai8
llm8
hugo8
gradle8
concurrent7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RRua/androZooOpenCrawler
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
greensoftwarelab/E-MANAFA
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:122 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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