honors
List of honors and awards I have received over the years.
2020
2nd prize
2nd prize @ Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2020
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The Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge is an idea contest promoted by Fraunhofer AICOS with the objective of motivating and rewarding research of practical utility, through the attribution of a scientific prize to MSc and PhD students and researchers from Portuguese Universities
2018
best poster
Best Poster @ GESTEC 2018
With the poster VITASENIOR–MT: Architecture of a Telehealth Solution. In Gestão & Tecnologi@ - Criação de Valor em Saúde (GESTEC). Santarém, Portugal.
2016
nomination
Nomination to Best Paper @ KDIR 2016
With the paper Classification and Regression of Music Lyrics: Emotionally-Significant Features”. In the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval – KDIR 2016, Porto, Portugal, November 9-11.
2013
podium
2nd place in MIREX 2013
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Our algorithm obtained the second best result in terms of accuracy at the MIREX 2013 - Audio Mood Classification Task.
2012
1st place
1st place in MIREX 2012
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Our algorithm obtained the best result in terms of accuracy at the MIREX 2012 - Audio Mood Classification Task.
2012
grant awarded
FCT PhD Scholarship
Ph.D. Scholarship from the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), SFRH/BD/91523/2012.
2010
grant awarded
CISUC/FCTUC Research Grant
Research Grant conceded under the project MOODetector – A System for Mood based Classification and Retrieval of Audio Music, financed by the FCT project PTDC/EIA EIA/102185/2008.