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Born and raised in the suburban outskirts of Lisbon. My academic journey started when I was admitted to the B.Sc. + M.Sc. in Physics Engineering at Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). After one year, I concluded that my passion lied in the union of Health\Medicine and Engineering, as such I applied to the B.Sc. + M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), where I stayed until its end in 2023. Throughout my journey at IST, I refined my preferences, with a gradual approximation towards Computer Science (selecting related electives), and being part of some extracurricular Web Developer Projects. In my M.Sc. I finally converged towards Computational Biology|Data Science|Machine learning|Statistics. Having developed my thesis under the supervision of Professors Emanuel Gonçalves at INESC-ID and Pedro Beltrão at ETH-Zurich, where a connection between changes in the interaction of proteins and specific cellular phenotypes was sought using Machine Learning and Precision Medicine approaches. After my year as a thesis student, my interest in Deep Learning Generative Models grew. In particular, the transformer architecture, due to the exponential growth of GPT models and their feats in Natural Language Processing and syntax.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Miguel Dinis De Sousa
Date of birth
2000/01/07
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • De Sousa, Miguel Dinis

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C715-9016-F346
ORCID iD
0009-0004-1752-9063

Email addresses

  • miguel.diniz@live.com.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09 - 2023/12
Concluded
Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Precision medicine and computational biology approaches to study protein networks and find novel therapeutic targets for cancer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17/20
2019/09 - 2021/09
Concluded
Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Biomédica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
15/20
2018/09 - 2019/09
Attended
Ciências da Engenharia - Engenharia Física (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/09 - 2023/09 Coordinator Of the Informatics Department JOB2BE - Semana da Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2021/03 - 2023/03 Frontend and Backend Developer HackerSchool, Portugal
2022/07 - 2022/08 Job Shadowing in a Project: Modelling Angelman Syndrome in CRISPR Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
2021/07 - 2021/09 Digital Health / Flutter Developer Internship NEVARO, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Precision medicine and computational biology approaches to study protein networks and find novel therapeutic targets for cancer". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2023. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/mebiom21/dissertacao/846778572214491.