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Contacts

Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre, 2829 -516 Caparica
Portugal

email:
jmagx@di.fct.unl.ptx
(remove all 'x' characters).

Degrees

2008 PhD in Computer Science, Imperial College London.

2002 MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico.

1998 Eng degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico.

Teaching

Assistant Professor

Office hours: Thursdays 17h00 - 19h00

We are always interested in qualified students for the Masters and Doctoral degrees: see the currently active research projects and past student projects' page for an example of the kind of work we do.

Courses:

Web and media search

Bases de dados

Programação para ciências experimentais

Redes de TCP/IP

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

Visit the Multimedia Information Retrieval SDK software page here.

Publications

Visit the list of publications is here.

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.