SPEAKER

Orlando Anunciação is a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering with more than 20 years of experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence. His thesis focused on developing Machine Learning, Statistical and Computational methods to find genetic interactions that may play a role in developing complex diseases such as Breast Cancer or Alzheimer's Disease. After a year of working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ipatimup / I3S research institute, he moved to Belgium to work as a Senior Data Scientist (contractor) at Sony R&D Brussels Lab, where he stayed for around seven years and a half. After moving back to Portugal, he joined BI4ALL in October 2023 and has worked as an AI & Data Science Manager since then.