I’m Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida, a PhD candidate in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning with a strong foundation in Deep Learning. I’m passionate about leveraging AI for innovation, focusing on self-supervised learning and generative modeling for time-series forecasting. Beyond research, I enjoy traveling and exploring diverse cultures, and I stay active with competitive sports. I also like working on personal projects that blend creativity with technical skills to build useful and interesting solutions. Outside of work, I love traveling, exploring diverse cultures, and competitive sports. I also enjoy personal projects that merge creativity with technical expertise, turning ideas into tangible AI-enabled solutions.

Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida

I’m Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida, a PhD candidate in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning with a strong foundation in Deep Learning. I’m passionate about leveraging AI for innovation, focusing on self-supervised learning and generative modeling for time-series forecasting. Beyond research, I enjoy traveling and exploring diverse cultures, and I stay active with competitive sports. I also like working on personal projects that blend creativity with technical skills to build useful and interesting solutions. Outside of work, I love traveling, exploring diverse cultures, and competitive sports. I also enjoy personal projects that merge creativity with technical expertise, turning ideas into tangible AI-enabled solutions.

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I’m Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida, a PhD candidate in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning with a strong foundation in Deep Learning. I’m passionate about leveraging AI for innovation, focusing on self-supervised learning and generative modeling for time-series forecasting. Beyond research, I enjoy traveling and exploring diverse cultures, and I stay active with competitive sports. I also like working on personal projects that blend creativity with technical skills to build useful and interesting solutions.

Outside of work, I love traveling, exploring diverse cultures, and competitive sports. I also enjoy personal projects that merge creativity with technical expertise, turning ideas into tangible AI-enabled solutions.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

Portuguese
Fluent
English
Advanced

Work Experience

Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon
April 1, 2023 - October 16, 2025
Led development of transit time estimation models for the EU road transportation network; designed and implemented deep learning models for tabular data (Transformers, ResNets) with quantile distributions; deployed models on AWS for scalable real-time inference (beta); communicated results to the finance team via Streamlit dashboards; contributed to increased transportation efficiency and reduced promise delivery time variability, with an estimated €10M/year business impact.
Research Fellow at University of Aveiro
September 1, 2020 - October 16, 2025
Built a flexible and low-cost localization and navigation system; developed detection and decoding methods for static landmarks; compared deep learning object detectors on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier; employed trilateration techniques for self-localization.
Electronics Engineer Intern (Computer Vision) at Renault
August 1, 2018 - October 16, 2025
Designed and implemented an artificial vision station for quality control in a production line, automating defect detection processes.

Education

PhD Candidate in Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Örebro University and Technical University of Munich (TUM)
September 1, 2020 - May 1, 2025
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Aveiro, Portugal
September 1, 2014 - July 1, 2019

Qualifications

AWS Technical Essentials
November 1, 2022 - October 16, 2025
CS50x (Harvard, CS50)
June 1, 2020 - October 16, 2025
NVIDIA Deepstream for video analytics on Jetson Nano
March 1, 2020 - October 16, 2025
ROS Workshop (Robot Operating System)
February 1, 2019 - October 16, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization (Coursera)
December 1, 2019 - February 1, 2020

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Transportation & Logistics, Education, Professional Services

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate

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