Publications & Research

Academic work in systems, performance engineering, and distributed computing. Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science.

Publications

ORCID

Peer-reviewed papers and thesis work.

A Comparative Analysis of Ai-Based Solutions for Clinical Documentation

Luís Carlos Afonso, João Rafael Almeida, José Luís Oliveira

2025 IEEE 38th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2025

2025

An Embedding-Based Method for Processing Medical Audio into Structured Reports

Luís Carlos Afonso, Carolina Gonçalves, Catarina Sousa, José Luís Oliveira

2025 IEEE 38th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2025

2025

Combining Statistical and Deep Learning Models for Insomnia Detection

Luís Carlos Afonso, João Rafael Almeida, José Luís Oliveira

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2025

2025

BIT@UA at #SMM4H 2024 Tasks 1 and 5: finding adverse drug events and children's medical disorders in English tweets

Luís Carlos Afonso

Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks, 2024

2024

HealthDBFinder: a question-answering task for health database discovery

João Rafael Almeida, Jorge Miguel Silva, Luís Carlos Afonso, Tiago Melo Almeida, Rui Antunes, Richard AA Jonker, João António Reis, Dimitri Silva, Sérgio Matos, José Luís Oliveira

2024 IEEE 37th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2024

2024

Research Areas

Current interests and ongoing directions.

Algorithms

Design and analysis of efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization, graph problems, and computational geometry. Interested in bridging theoretical guarantees with practical performance.

Artificial Intelligence

Using AI as a tool for solving complex problems across domains. From natural language processing to predictive modeling, exploring how machine learning can be applied to real-world challenges.

High Performance Computing

Parallel and distributed computing, GPU acceleration, and performance optimization. Focused on scaling compute-intensive workloads across heterogeneous architectures.

Education

Mestrado em Engenharia Informática

University of Aveiro · DETI

2024 — 2026

Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática

University of Aveiro · DETI

2020 — 2023

Certifications

Professional credentials in data science, simulation, and digital systems.