Maria Catarina Tavares Botelho (F61B-A65F-D690)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Catarina Tavares Botelho

Maria Catarina Tavares Botelho is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, since 2019. She is developing her research on the topic "Speech as a biomarker for speech affecting diseases" at INESC-ID. Her research interests focus on the use of speech for medical diagnosis, monitoring and therapy. She was a research intern at Google AI, Toronto, and a student researcher at the BioViualSeech project. She has developed her MSc Thesis on the use of speech as biomarker for sleep disorders and sleep deprivation. She has an Integrated Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering (2018), from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. She is a highly motivated and committed person, awarded with an Academic Merit Diploma from Instituto Superior Técnico during her Integrated Master’s Degree. She worked in the Association of Students of Biomedical Engineering for three years, where she developed skills of leadership, organization and communication. Her other passion is the classical ballet, which she has been practicing for 18 years.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Catarina Tavares Botelho

Citation names

Botelho, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F61B-A65F-D690
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4794-1003

Email addresses

catarina.t.botelho@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/02/05 - 2023/09 Ongoing	Doctoral programme in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Doutoramento) Major in Speech and Language Technologies Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2013/09 - 2018/11/13 Concluded	Integrated Mater Degree in Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Speech as a biomarker for Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2016/09 - 2017/02 Attended	Erasmus during the Integrated Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering (Master) Technische Universität Graz, Austria

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/01/16 - Current	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
2019/07/08 - 2019/10/04	Research Trainee (Research)	Google Inc, Canada

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/16 - 2019/06/30	BioVisualSpeech CMUP-ERI/TIC/0033/2014 Research Fellow Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering, United States Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, Portugal Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central EPE, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper

Botelho, Catarina; Abad, Alberto; Schultz, Tanja; Trancoso, Isabel. "Towards Reference Speech Characterization for Health Applications". 2023.
10.21437/interspeech.2023-1435
Botelho, Catarina; Schultz, Tanja; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel. "Challenges of using longitudinal and cross-domain corpora on studies of pathological speech". 2022.
10.21437/interspeech.2022-10995
Ablimit, Ayimnisagul; Botelho, Catarina; Abad, Alberto; Schultz, Tanja; Trancoso, Isabel. "Exploring Dementia Detection from Speech: Cross Corpus Analysis". 2022.
10.1109/icassp43922.2022.9747167
Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Botelho, Catarina; Teixeira, Francisco; Rolland, Thomas; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel. "Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19". Paper presented in 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021), Brno, 2021.
Published • 10.21437/interspeech.2021-1702
Botelho, Catarina; Diener, Lorenz; Kuster, Dennis; Scheck, Kevin; Amiriparian, Shahin; W. Schuller, Bjorn; Schultz, Tanja; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel. "Toward Silent Paralinguistics: Speech-to-EMG – Retrieving Articulatory Muscle Activity from Speech". Paper presented in INTERSPEECH 2020, Shanghai, 2020.
Accepted
Diener, Lorenz; Amiriparian, Shahin; Botelho, Catarina; Scheck, Kevin; Kuster, Dennis; Trancoso, Isabel; W. Schuller, Bjorn; Schultz, Tanja. "Towards Silent Paralinguistics: Deriving Speaking Mode and Speaker ID from Electromyographic Signals". Paper presented in INTERSPEECH 2020, Shanghai, 2020.
Accepted

Thesis / Dissertation

Botelho, Catarina. "Speech as a biomarker for sleep disorders and sleep deprivation". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2018. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/mebiom/dissertacao/1409728525632172.

Other

Other output

Speech as a Biomarker for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection. 2019. M. Catarina Botelho; Isabel Trancoso; Alberto Abad; Teresa Paiva. https://doi.org/10.1109%2Ficassp.2019.8682431.
10.1109/icassp.2019.8682431

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2018/11/28	Lecture on Speech as a Biomarker for Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation	Presentation as Guest Lecturer for the course Computational Language Processing, ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/09/01	Speech as a Biomarker for Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation	Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology ISCA - International Speech Communication Association (Hyderabad, India)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/03/14 - 2019/03/15	3rd Annual MC Meeting of the enetCollect COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technology) Action (CA16105) (2019/03/14 - 2019/03/15) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2018/05/10 - 2018/05/10	"When Science Meets Technology: Brain-Computer Interfaces" - This talk was organized by Núcleo de Engenharia Biomédica do IST and Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Dr. Hugo Alexandre Ferreira was the invited speaker. (2018/05/10 - 2018/05/10) Seminar (Co-organisor)
2017/09 - 2018/02	BioMind – Make it in 24hours (1st edition) Together with 2 other people, I founded and organized a 24 hours hackathon that had the presence of 100 Biomedical Engineering students from 4 different Portuguese universities and 8 companies/institutions as juries and mentors: Instituto Superior Técnico, José de Mello Saúde, BPI, Glintt, Beta-i, Vila Franca de Xira Hospital, Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde and LabToMarket. (2018/02/24 - 2018/02/25) Other (Co-organisor)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/05/04 - 2020/05/08	"ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The 2020 conference will feature world-class presentations by internationally renowned speakers, cutting-edge session topics and provide a fantastic opportunity to network with like-minded professionals from around the world." Conference	45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing IEEE Signal Processing Society, United States
2020/04/21 - 2020/04/21	Invited Speaker at a Web-based seminar that connected female engineers and high school students to discuss opportunities for women in tech. More at: https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/noticias/campus-e-comunidade/e-importante-entusiasmar-as-jovens-e-mostrar-a-magia-da-engenharia/?fbclid=IwAR3awz9A0oicWB11dDyGtt_nyBzkc4aSrL9mAWJ85Y5CkBYg2CHjTtqB2ik Seminar	Engenheiras por um dia Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género, Portugal
2018/09/02 - 2019/09/06	Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. In 2018, it was held in Hyderabad, India. Conference	Interspeech 2018
2019/05/12 - 2019/05/17	"ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The 2019, conference, held in Brighton, UK, featured world-class presentations by internationally renowned speakers and cutting-edge session topics."More at: https://2019.ieeeicassp.org/general#about Conference	2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2019/02/11 - 2019/02/14	Training School on Pathological Speech Processing and Machine Learning (TAPAS International Training Network), with invited speakers and hands-on exercises. More info: https://www.tapas-etn-eu.org/events/te2	Training Network on Automatic Processing of PAthological Speech
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/08	Web summit 2018, held in Lisbon - considered Europe's biggest technology, entrepreneurship and innovation event. Conference	Web summit

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020/01 - Current	ISCA-SAC (International Speech Communication Association - Student Advisory Committee)	Student volunteer; Event Coordinator
2015 - Current	Projeto Dançar com Parkinson	Volunteer
2017/07 - 2018/09	Núcleo de Engenharia Biomédica do Instituto Superior Técnico (NEBM - IST)	Vice President, volunteer
2017/10 - 2018/06	Grupo de Ação Social from Instituto Superior Técnico	Volunteer tutor
2015/07 - 2016/07	Núcleo de Engenharia Biomédica do Instituto Superior Técnico (NEBM - IST)	Responsible of the Sports and Leisure Department, volunteer
2014/09 - 2015/07	Núcleo de Engenharia Biomédica do Instituto Superior Técnico (NEBM - IST)	Volunteer collaborator

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2020/02 - 2020/07	Speech Processing, Teaching Assistant	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

2018	Academic Merit Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017	Academic Merit Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016	Academic Merit Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015	Academic Merit Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014	Academic Merit Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal