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Skills

  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Classification
  • Clustering
  • Data Mining
  • Operations Research
  • Planning
  • Problem Solving
  • Regression
  • Routing
  • Scheduling

Services

  • Data Mining

    $50/hr Starting at $300 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Extracting knowledge and insights from structured or raw data. This service typically includes accessing data sources, preprocessing, mining, compiling and presenting results.

    Data MiningData Science

  • Machine Learning

    $50/hr Starting at $300 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Fitting non-linear functions for classification or regression. This service typically includes accessing data sources, data preprocessing, model selection, and network training and evaluation.

    ClassificationClusteringData ScienceMachine LearningRegression

  • Optimization problem solving

    $50/hr Starting at $300 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Solve non-linear mathematical problems. This service typically includes modeling, testing different solvers, and fine tuning - developing relaxations and heuristics to guide the solver towards the solution...

    Machine LearningOperations ResearchPlanningProblem SolvingRouting

About

For the past 17 years I have been learning, researching, teaching, and applying Artificial Intelligence techniques for decision and optimization, machine learning, data mining and knowledge representation.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Since 2017 I'm a Senior Data Scientist contractor at National Pharmacy Association (ANF) where I design and develop algorithms for predicting customer retention, semantic interpretation of textual medical prescriptions, predicting pharmacy daily stock, among others.
(corporate website: http://www.revistasauda.pt/conheca-nos/Pages/default.aspx)

Since 2015 I'm a researcher and developer at TheSolvingMachine where I design and develop of a cloud based solution for planning pickup/delivery transportation activities involving multiple vehicles, time and resource constraints.
(product website: https://thesolvingmachine.com/kangrouter)

EDUCATION

In 2004 I got a MSc degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, with the thesis "Heuristic Search for Protein Structure Determination".

In 2010 I got a PhD degree in Constraint Optimization, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, with the thesis "Modern Techniques for Constraint Solving".

RESEARCH

As a researcher I have a published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Here are three examples:

A certified Branch & Bound approach for reliability-based optimization problems.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10898-017-0529-6

From phenotype to genotype in complex brain networks.
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep19790

View-based propagation of decomposable constraints.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10601-013-9140-8

SOFTWARE

I'm also an active software developer. Some contributions:

CaSPER, the Constraint Solving Platform for Engineering and Research. https://github.com/marcovc/casper

PROCURE,Probabilistic Constraints for Uncertainty Reasoning in Science and Engineering Applications.
https://github.com/marcovc/procure

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