Manuel Madeira

I am a PhD student at LTS4, at EPFL (Switzerland), under the supervision of Pascal Frossard and Dorina Thanou. My research interests span generative modeling, graph deep learning, and their applications in scientific discovery. I have been working on advancing graph generative methods and improving their controllability by leveraging domain knowledge.

Apart from Academia, I am also a proud co-organizer of Deep Learning Sessions Portugal. We are a volunteer group whose goal is to promote the AI literacy and the collaboration among its practitioners in Portugal.

Before starting my PhD, I was a Machine Learning researcher at Inductiva Research Labs, where I worked on physics-informed neural networks for heat diffusion and coastal dynamics.

Prior to that, I completed my BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. I was also a visiting student at Tsinghua University. For my MSc thesis, I worked on variance reduction for stochastic convex optimization with Renato Negrinho, Pedro Aguiar, and João Xavier.

In my spare time, I am really into sports! Back in Portugal, I used to play football at a competitive level. You can check my (Portuguese) football player page here and a young Manuel playing here (8 in red and black stripes). I do also enjoy great books and movies.

For a complete list of publications, check my Google Scholar page.