Personal Presentation

Pedro Strecht Ribeiro holds a PhD in Computer Engineering, specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), where he also completed a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and Computing and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a specialization in Telecommunications, Electronics, and Computers.

He is currently Head of the Data, Architectures and Interoperability Unit within the Information Systems Service at UPdigital. His responsibilities include consulting in information systems and interoperability, data extraction, processing and analysis, the application of knowledge discovery and machine learning techniques, software development and database design, as well as requirements elicitation and analysis.

He is an Invited Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto, where he teaches Software Engineering and Machine Learning, and an External Collaborating Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Laboratory (LIAAD) of INESC TEC – Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science. He is also a member of the EUNIS Business Intelligence Task Force and the International Educational Data Mining Society.

He is co-author of the book Python - Algoritmia e IA, published by FCA.