Vitor Cerqueira
Assistant Professor at Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolVitor Cerqueira is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Coimbra with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and applied machine learning. His PhD (with honors) and background in Applied Mathematics and Data Analytics underpin a research portfolio focused on time series forecasting, concept drift, evaluation, and metalearning, complemented by practical work in automated ML and model monitoring. He has held postdoctoral and research roles at Dalhousie and INESC, contributed to industry research at NEC Europe, and authored a book on deep learning for time series. An active open-source maintainer (github.com/vcerqueira) and Google Scholar-listed researcher, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with hands-on system-building for monitoring and early anomaly detection. Notably, his career weaves together statistical discipline and production-aware ML, making him adept at turning complex temporal problems into deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Analytics, Master's degree, Data Analytics at FEP U. Porto – Economics and ManagementDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoBSc, Applied Mathematics, BSc, Applied Mathematics at Faculty of Sciences U. Porto
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (14)
forecast10
r-package10
arima10
ensembles9
forecasting-models9
prophet9
time-series-forecasting9
forecasting8
time-series6
feature-engineering6
python5
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
data-science4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vcerqueira/tsensembler
Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
R package - Dynamic Ensembles for Time Series Forecasting
Contributions:26 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
forecastingr-packagetime-series-analysisarimaseries-forecasting
vcerqueira/performance_estimation
May 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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