Gonçalo Eduardo Cascalho Raposo (3D1F-2218-D71C)

Curriculum Vitae

Gonçalo Eduardo Cascalho Raposo

Gonçalo Eduardo Cascalho Raposo. Completed the Mestrado integrado in Engenharia Aeroespacial in 2021/01/05 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. Attends the Doutoramento in Engenharia Informática e de Computadores by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico since 2021/02/05. Is Contracted Researcher in Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa. Participated in 10 event(s). Has received 11 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Research Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Natural Language Processing; Conversational Search; Dialogue Systems; Information Retrieval; Conversational Question Answering; Question Rewriting; Transformer-Based Neural Language Models.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Gonçalo Eduardo Cascalho Raposo

Citation names

Raposo, Gonçalo
Gonçalo Raposo
Raposo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3D1F-2218-D71C
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7806-6526
Google Scholar ID: HBN5h6EAAAAJ

Email addresses

goncalo.cascalho.raposo@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
goncalo.raposo@inesc-id.pt (Professional)
goncalo@craposo.com (Personal)

Addresses

Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.goncaloraposo.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Chinese	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/02/05 - 2025/02/04 Ongoing	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/09 - 2021/01/05 Concluded	Engenharia Aeroespacial (Mestrado integrado) Major in Aviónica Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Politecnico di Milano, Italy "Deep Learning with approximate computing: an energy efficient approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18.3

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/02 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2023/06/30	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Unbabel, Portugal
	Unbabel, Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/08/31	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Carnegie Mellon University, United States
	Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute, United States
2020/02 - 2021/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2017/11 - 2018/02	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2016/07/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
	Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/03/01 - 2022/07/31	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/11/29 - 2022/02/26	Trainee Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/03/09 - 2023/03/31	Multilingual AI Agent Assistants (MAIA) 45909 Research Fellow Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper

Raposo, Gonçalo and Coheur, Luisa and Martins, Bruno. "Prompting, Retrieval, Training: An exploration of different approaches for task-oriented dialogue generation". 2023.
Raposo, Gonçalo; Ribeiro, Rui; Martins, Bruno; Coheur, Luisa. Corresponding author: Raposo, Gonçalo. "Question rewriting? Assessing its importance for conversational question answering". Paper presented in 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Stavanger, 2022.
Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_23
Raposo, Gonçalo; Roma, Nuno; Tomás, Pedro. Corresponding author: Raposo, Gonçalo. "PositNN: Training Deep Neural Networks with Mixed Low-Precision Posit". Paper presented in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021), Toronto, 2021.
Published • 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413919

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/08/04	Task-oriented dialogues similarity and retrieval using a bi-encoder	MAIA Consortium Meeting Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, United States)
2022/07/15	Question rewriting? Assessing its importance for conversational question answering	Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI) Workshop at SIGIR 2022 (Madrid, Spain)
2021/11/16	Conversational Question Answering: Assessing question rewriting importance	MAIA meeting Unbabel (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/10/08	SCAI QReCC Shared Task: Team Rachael	Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI 2021)
2021/09/15	Search-Oriented Conversational Assistant	1st CMU Portugal Doctoral Symposium CMU Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/06/21	Generating an infinite text with only a few words	Cross Seminars of Interdisciplinary Research Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/06	PositNN: Training Deep Neural Networks with Mixed Low-Precision Posit	2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021)
2021/04/09	Transformers: How to implement them with PyTorch?	HLT Seminars INESC-ID (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/10/10	Photon/Hadron discrimination: zero order approach	9th MARTA Progress Meeting/3rd LATTES meeting Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/06/15 - 2022/06/24	Attended the Scientific Writing course Workshop	Scientific Writing Workshop Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/05/18 - 2022/05/18	Participated in Encontro Ciência 2022 with a small demonstration. Congress	Encontro Ciência 2022 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Ciência Viva, Portugal
2022/04/10 - 2022/04/14	Attended and presented a poster in ECIR 2022. Conference	44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022)
2022/03/22 - 2022/03/22	Participation in Unbabel4EU Demo Day Symposium	Unbabel4EU Demo Day Unbabel, Portugal
2021/11/24 - 2021/11/24	Participation in the workshop "Sanity during your PhD?" Workshop	PhD Open Days Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/11/06 - 2021/11/06	Presented my work about open-domain conversational question answering Exhibition	Técnico Taguspark Open Day Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/09/23 - 2021/09/23	Participation in workshop "Ensino21@Tecnico" Workshop	Workshop Ensino21@Tecnico Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/07/30 - 2021/07/30	Participation in 2nd ELLIS NLP workshop Workshop	Second ELLIS NLP Workshop European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Portugal
2021/07/07 - 2021/07/15	Participation in the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS) 2021 Workshop	Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS) 2021 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/02/24 - 2021/02/25	Participation in 1st ELLIS NLP workshop Workshop	First ELLIS NLP workshop European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Portugal
2015/01 - 2015/06	Participated in the 2014/2015 edition of Projeto Quark Seminar	Projeto Quark Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Física, Portugal
2014/01 - 2014/06	Participated in the 2013/2014 edition of Projeto Quark Seminar	Projeto Quark Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Física, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/05/02 - 2023/06/16	Inteligência Artificial	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/09/19 - 2022/11/04	Língua Natural	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/03/07 - 2022/07/31	Inteligência Artificial	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/11/29 - 2022/02/26	Sistemas Operativos	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2021/02/18	Interview by Gulbenkian: Das "engenhocas" ao combate à pandemia	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2018/10/02	Interview by Gulbenkian: Bolseiros Gulbenkian Mais	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2015/09 - 2015/09	TVI news report	Olimpíadas Ibero-Americanas: alunos portugueses arrecadaram cinco prémios

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022/06/01 - 2022/08/31	Research visit at LTI @ CMU focusing in information retrieval and dialogue generation. Host: Jamie Callan.	Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute, United States

Distinctions

Award

2021	1st place in SCAI QReCC Shared Task 2021
2020	ULisboa Merit Scholarship 2018/2019 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019	ULisboa Merit Scholarship 2016/2017 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2015	Silver Medal in Iberoamerican Physics Olympiad XX - international physics competion Sociedad Boliviana de Física, Bolivia
2014	Gold Medal in Lisbon Physics Olympiad 2014 - regional competion of physics Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal

Other distinction

2021	Academic Merit Diploma 2019/2020 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020	Academic Excellence Diploma 2018/2019 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019	Academic Excellence Diploma 2017/2018 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018	Academic Excellence Diploma 2016/2017 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017	Academic Merit Diploma 2015/2016 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015	Merit Scholarship Gulbenkian Mais Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal