About

Cristiano Patrício received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (17/20) in 2019 from the Polytechnic of Guarda and his M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (18/20) in 2021 from the University of Beira Interior. He received 1 Merit Scholarship in the 2018/2019 academic year. Cristiano is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Beira Interior under a Ph.D. research grant from the Portuguese national funding agency for science (FCT). Cristiano is currently a Research Assistant at INESC TEC and was a visiting assistant at the Polytechnic of Guarda in the academic year of 2021/2022. Previously, Cristiano participated in developing solutions for the Altice Portugal Foundation (MagicContact Web) projects and for the “Perception for a Service Robot” project of NOVA-LINCS. His work focuses on developing inherently interpretable deep learning models for pathology diagnosis in medical imaging. His research interests include the topics of Explainable AI, Deep Learning and Medical Image Analysis. He authored 6 research papers in international conferences and journals.