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I am a Lecturer in Robotics and Computation in the Department of Computer Science, since 2019, andÌýalso a part of the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Surgical and Interventional Sciences (WEISS).

I graduated from theÌýUniversity of Porto, Portugal, in 2009Ìýand obtained my PhD degree from theÌý, Portugal, in 2016 while working on calibration of multi-sensor and multi-camera platforms.

I joined ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and the Surgical Robot Vision Research Group in 2015 as a Research Associate to work on , a 7-year project to develop guided instrumentation for fetal therapy and surgery in collaboration with King’s College London and KU Leuven.

My currently active research focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision to the analysis of medical and surgical data, with most emphasis on geometric vision modelling for 3D reconstruction, sensor localisation, and motion estimation. Topics include:

• Interactive guidance and skills assessment during obstetric ultrasound training
• Instrument localisation and anatomy reconstruction from surgical video with emphasis on robotic surgery and fetoscopy
• Deep learning for surgical video analysis, including semantic segmentation and detection of surgical phases/events
• Sensor localisation and calibration in robotic platforms.

I am also the module lead for Robotic Control Theory and Computation (COMP0128) from the MSc in Robotics and Computation – Department of Computer Science.

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