Simão Gonçalves is a data scientist at Hospital da Luz Learning Health, a research company from Hospital da Luz to leverage the extensive medical data for research and development to improve the Hospital’s services and quality of care. He is responsible for bringing the first machine learning model to production for the hospital which works side by side with nurses in the in-patient care department.

With a Masters in Data Science, Simão’s specialization lies in both data analysis and application of machine learning & deep learning models to medical data. His master thesis explored future diagnosis prediction given a patient’s medical history and he has also worked closely with Hospital Garcia de Orta’s team on analyzing the impact of a medical intervention made to 300 patients. Simão also has a track record of organizing several data science workshops in the past years, having taught more than 200 students about this field.