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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.
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
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
  1. Botelho, Catarina; Abad, Alberto; Schultz, Tanja; Trancoso, Isabel. "Towards Reference Speech Characterization for Health Applications". 2023.
    10.21437/interspeech.2023-1435
  2. 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
  3. Ablimit, Ayimnisagul; Botelho, Catarina; Abad, Alberto; Schultz, Tanja; Trancoso, Isabel. "Exploring Dementia Detection from Speech: Cross Corpus Analysis". 2022.
    10.1109/icassp43922.2022.9747167
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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