Degrees
2008 PhD in Computer Science, Imperial College London.
2002 MSc in Electrical and Computer Engeneering, Instituto Superior Técnico.
1998 Eng degree in Electrical and Computer Engeneering, Instituto Superior Técnico.
Teaching
Assistant Professor
Office hours: Thursdays 17h00 - 19h00
We are always interested in qualified students for the Masters and Doctoral degrees.
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Courses:
Produção de Conteúdos Multimédia
Research
Member of Centro de Informática e de Tecnologias de Informação - CITI.
My research interests concern the different aspects of Web and multimedia search and data mining: exploratory search and recommendation systems, machine learning methods for information extraction, high-dimensional indexing and ranking algorithms, and graph based analysis of social-networks.
Software
Most of my research is implemented as part of a set of tools that I use in my work. In an extraordinary moment of inspiration I named it Multimedia Information Retrieval C++ SDK. Find out more.
Publications
Selected publications:
J. Magalhães, F. Ciravegna, S. Rüger, "Exploring multimedia in a keyword space," ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.
J. Magalhães, S. Rüger, "Information theoretic semantic multimedia indexing," ACM Conference on Image and Video Retrieval CIVR, best paper award, Amsterdam, Holland, July 2007.
J. Magalhães, F. Pereira, “Using MPEG standards for multimedia customization”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 437 - 456, May 2004.
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Biography
João Magalhães holds a Ph.D. degree (2008) in
Computer Science from Imperial College London, UK and both a M.Sc. (2002) and
Engineering degree (1998) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently an Invited
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of
Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Before that he was at
the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (2002-2009) and at Siemens R&D
(1997-2003) working in the area of multimedia and communications networks. His
research interests cover the different problems of Web and multimedia
information search and data mining: exploratory search and recommendation
systems, machine learning methods for information extraction,
high-dimensional indexing and ranking algorithms,
and graph based analysis of social-networks.
Dr. Magalhães received the ACM International Conference in Image and
Video Retrieval 2007 Best Paper Award, the Portuguese national engineering
association Young Engineer Award in 2002, and the Siemens Innovation and
Communications Award in 2002.