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I am originally from Braga and began my academic journey at the University of Minho, where I earned a degree in Optometry and Visual Sciences. During my second year, I joined the "Starter" research initiation group at the Colour Science Laboratory (CSL). From 2017 to 2021, I worked as an optometrist, managing consultations, leading clinical teams, and working extensively with optical equipment and specialized software. In September 2021, I began my Ph.D. in Optometry and Vision Sciences, funded by the FCT, focusing on the application of Artificial Intelligence to Vision Science. In parallel, I have deepened my expertise in digital health, completing a postgraduate course at INDEG-ISCTE. In 2024, I was selected for the Optometry Program in Advocacy and Leadership (OPAL) by the World Council of Optometry, gaining valuable experience in advocacy and policy making. Through both my academic and professional journey, I have had the opportunity to explore the diverse applications of artificial intelligence across clinical, research, digital health, and advocacy domains.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Alexandre Rodrigues Monteiro

Citation names

  • José A.R. Monteiro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0D16-FDD6-1A76
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5780-956X

Email addresses

  • id9887@uminho.pt (Professional)
  • alexmonteiro1995@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Optics
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/02/01 - 2025/09/01
Ongoing
 Doctoral Program in Optometry and Vision Sciences (Phd) (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/04/05 - 2025/07/06
Concluded
 SQL for Data Science (Outros)
International Business Machines Corporation Industry Academy, United States
2024/05 - 2024/11
Concluded
 Digital Health (Pós-Graduação)
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/11
Concluded
 Optometry Program in Advocacy and Leadership (OPAL) (Outros)
World Council of Optometry , United States
2024/01 - 2024/06
Concluded
 International Course on Health and the Environment (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2023
Concluded
 Using MATLAB with Python (Outros)
Mathworks Inc, United States
2022/08/09
Concluded
 Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (Outros)
Major in Laurence Moroney
Coursera, United States
2022/04/14
Concluded
 Computer Vision Basic (Coursera) (Outros)
Major in Radha Dasari; Junsong Yuan
University at Buffalo, United States
2022/03/29
Concluded
 Become a Good Matlab Programmer (Outros)
Major in Hossein Tootoonchy
Udemy Inc, United States
2020/04/10 - 2020/05/01
Concluded
 Formação Prática em Deep Learning e TensorFlow com Python (Outros)
Udemy Inc, United States
2020/03/30 - 2020/04/02
Concluded
 Deep Learning: Convolutional Neural Networks in Python (Outros)
Udemy Inc, United States
2020/03/01 - 2020/03/29
Concluded
 Machine Learning e Data Science com Python de A a Z (Outros)
Udemy Inc, United States
2017/09/15 - 2020/01/20
Concluded
 Advanced Optometry (Master) (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"The Influence of the protective layer on the colour perception of artistic paintings. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09/15 - 2017/06/15
Concluded
 Optometry and Vision Sciences (Degree) (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/03 - 2025/09/01 PhD student Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/12/12 - 2021/04/30 Optometrist Mais Optica, Portugal
2017/09/07 - 2017/12/07 Junior Optometrist Grandvision, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/09 - 2025/08 Artificial intelligence applied to color perception
84423DFA
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022/01 - 2023/12 Color Vision Test supported by neural networks. - Teste de visão das cores auxiliado por redes neurais
169504PRJ
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Jose Monteiro; Dora Marques; Joao Linhares; Sergio Nascimento. "Optimal color sets to represent the colors of natural scenes by k-medoids clustering". Journal of the Optical Society of America A (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/josaa.539089.
    10.1364/josaa.539089
  2. Gomes, Andreia; Linhares, Joao; Alves, Paulo Jorge; Monteiro, José; Nascimento, Sérgio. "A colour Vision Test – Comparing results between computer screens". Acta Ophthalmologica 102 S279 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aos.16149.
    10.1111/aos.16149
  3. Monteiro, José; Alves, Paulo; Gomes, Andreia; Nascimento, Sérgio; Linhares, João. "A colour vision test assisted by neural networks". Acta Ophthalmologica 102 S279 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aos.16148.
    10.1111/aos.16148
  4. João M. M. Linhares; José A. R. Monteiro; Ana Bailão; Liliana Cardeira; Taisei Kondo; Shigeki Nakauchi; Marcello Picollo; et al. "How Good Are RGB Cameras Retrieving Colors of Natural Scenes and Paintings? A Study Based on Hyperspectral Imaging". Sensors 20 21 (2020): 6242-6242. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216242.
    Published • 10.3390/s20216242

Other

Dataset
  1. José A. R. Monteiro; Dora Marques; J. M. M. Linhares; Sérgio M.C. Nascimento. Optimal color sets to represent the colors of natural scenes by k-medoids clustering. 2024.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.27802734
Other output
  1. Master's Thesis: Changes in the colours of a painting detected by varnich. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficiency of a simplified methodology used to to get information about the influence of the protective layer of paintings and its use in the virtual restoration starting with the spectral characteristics of the protective layer of each painting.. 2020. José A.R. Monteiro; Linhares, Joao M. M.; Ana Maria dos Santos Bailão. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/80543.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/09/26 Chromatic differences in easel paintings after the removal of the varnish layer: Impact of the illumination III Ibero-American Congress on Heritage Conservation (ICP)
Faculdade de Belas-Artes em parceria com o Museu da Farmácia e o Grupo Espanhol do IIC (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/07/14 - 2025/07/18 Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in particular, advance very rapidly, at a pace that even specialists have difficulties in following it. Its impact, particularly through Large Language Models and Generative AI affect almost all scientific disciplines. AI has a huge social impact, e.g., on education, labor market, politics and governance. Given the fast AI evolution, both industry and academia are interested in fast personnel reskilling and upskilling on AI edge technologies. This event, co-organized by International AI Doctora
Symposium
 AIDA Symposium and Summer School on ‘AI/ML Cutting Edge Trends’
Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes, Greece
2025/04/07 - 2025/04/11 The INvicta school of VIsion, Computational intelligence, and patTern Analysis - INVICTA - is a school of artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern analysis organised by the Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence - VCMI - group of the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia - CTM - of the INESC TEC.
Other
 Invicta school of vision, computational intelligence, and pattern analysis
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Porto, Portugal
2024/07 - 2024/07 Poster at International Colour Vision Society Meeting ; Title: Neural network to predict colour naming by dichromats by learning from naming patterns of normal trichromats Authors: José A.R. Monteiro, Dora N. Marques, Joana B.S. Costa, Joana F. A. Sequeiros, João M. M. Linhares and Sérgio M.C. Nascimento
Conference
 ICVS Meeting
International Colour Vision Society , United Kingdom
2023/09 - 2023/09 Poster at European Vision and Eye Research 2023; Title: A COLOR VISION TEST ASSISTED BY NEURAL NETWORK Authors: José A.R. Monteiro, Paulo Jorge Alves, Andreia Gomes, Sérgio M.C. Nascimento and João M.M Linhares
Conference
 EVER
European Association for Vision and Eye Research, Belgium
2023/07/31 - 2023/08/04 International Colour Vision Society Summer Camp 2023
Seminar
 International Colour Vision Society Summer Camp 2023
International Colour Vision Society , United Kingdom
2023 - 2023 Poster at Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer School 2023; Title: A Color Vision Test Assessed by Neural Networks Authors: José A.R. Monteiro, Paulo Jorge Alves, Andreia Gomes, Sérgio M.C. Nascimento and João M.M Linhares
Seminar
 Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer School 2023
Sociedad Española de Óptica, Spain
2023 - 2023 Poster at Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer School 2023; Title: A Color Vision Test – comparing results between computer screens Authors: João M.M Linhares, Andreia Gomes, Paulo Jorge Alves, José A.R. Monteiro and Sérgio M.C. Nascimento
Seminar
 Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer School 2023
Sociedad Española de Óptica, Spain
2023 - 2023 Poster at Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer School 2023; Title: Impact of refractive error compensation methods on a webcam eye tracking system Authors: Sara F. Lima, Paulo J. Alves, José A.R. Monteiro, Andreia Gomes, Madalena Lira and João M.M Linhares
Seminar
 Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer School 2023
Sociedad Española de Óptica, Spain
2023 - 2023 Poster at European Colour Visual Perception 2023; Title: An online color vision test Authors: João M.M Linhares, José A.R. Monteiro, Paulo Jorge Alves, Andreia Gomes, and Sérgio M.C. Nascimento
Congress
 European Colour Visual Perception 2023
2022/07/27 - 2022/07/29 Poster at 9th Iberian Conference on Perception (CIP 2022); Title: Color differences between consecutive hyperspectral acquisitions of paintings Authors: José A. R. Monteiro; Sérgio M. C. Nascimento; João M. M. Linhares
Congress
 9th Iberian Conference on Perception (CIP 2022)
2022/05/21 - 2022/05/22 Poster at the International Congress of Optometry and Vision Sciences 2022; Title: The influence of the protective layer in the perception of the colour of artistic paintings; Authors: Alexandre Monteiro, Liliana Cardeira, Ana Bailão, Sérgio Nascimento, João Linhares;
Congress
 International Congress of Optometry and Vision Sciences CIOCV22
Universidade do Minho Centro de Física, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - 2024 Journal of Optometry (1888-4296) Elsevier

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Member of the School Board of the School of Sciences, University of Minho
Member
 Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
2022/11 - 2024/11 Sectoral Health Commission 09
Member
 Instituto Português da Qualidade, Portugal