He has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and a Master’s degree in Big Data Engineering and Analysis, both from NOVA FCT. He also has a postgraduate qualification in Data Science from the Lisbon Data Science Academy.

During his academic career, he taught programming to young people.

He has been a teacher at the Samsung Innovation Campus for two editions.

Since 2020, he has worked in multinational companies, being involved in various data science projects, including churn prediction, speech emotion recognition, recommendation systems, search engines, document classification, question and answering, and anonymisation.

In the last year of this journey, he has been in contact with cutting-edge technologies such as Transformers, LLMs, Generative AI and Cloud.

Simão Gonçalves is currently a Data Scientist at Hospital da Luz Learning Health, a research company within Hospital da Luz that leverages the vast amount of medical data for research and development, in order to improve the hospital’s services and quality of care.

He is responsible for putting the hospital’s first machine learning model into production, which works alongside nurses in the inpatient care department.

With a Master’s degree in Data Science, Simão’s specialization lies both in data analysis and in the application of machine learning and deep learning models to medical data.

His master’s thesis explored the prediction of future diagnoses based on a patient’s medical history. He also worked closely with the team at Hospital Garcia de Orta to analyze the impact of a medical intervention carried out on 300 patients. Simão also has a track record of organizing several data science workshops in recent years, having taught more than 200 students in this field.