I'm a PhD student at NOVA LINCS, NOVA School of Science and Technology, working on large vision-language models, anomaly understanding, video understanding, and multilingual LLMs.

I'm also part of the core development team behind AMALIA.

• Video Anomaly Understanding — moving beyond detection toward models that can explain what is anomalous and why, using LVLMs. (FineVAU)
• Multilingual & Sovereign LLMs — training, aligning, and benchmarking open multimodal models for underrepresented language variants (pt-PT).
• Video Understanding — leveraging LVLM self-reflection capabilities to optimize context utilization for long videos. (Self-ReS)

• 2026-07 — 🚀 AMALIA-VL is publicly released: weights and data · eval suite · paper
• 2026-07 — 🚀 PorTEXTO is publicly released: data · paper
• 2025-11 — 📄 Fine-VAU accepted at AAAI 2026: data · paper
• 2025-03 — 📄 Self-ReS accepted at ICME 2025: paper
• 2024-10 — 🏆 Best Poster Award at RECPAD 2024

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