I'm Adriano, a machine learning engineer & researcher based in Porto, Portugal.
I recently finished my MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Porto. My thesis benchmarked open-weight language models as negotiation agents and measured whether inference-time techniques like Self-Refine and team deliberation are worth their cost. Before that I studied how class imbalance degrades synthetic tabular data generation as a student researcher with LIACC and Fraunhofer AICOS.
I like problems where the model is only half the work: building the benchmark, running the sweep on a cluster, and being honest about what the numbers actually say. Most of the projects on this site come with the full experiment code and a written report.
Timeline
- 2024 – 2026
MSc in Artificial Intelligence · thesis on open-weight LLMs as negotiation agents (18/20)
FCUP / FEUP, University of Porto
- Jul – Oct 2025
Student researcher: class imbalance in synthetic tabular data generation
FEUP · LIACC · Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal
- Feb – Jun 2024
Software engineering intern: store automations and multilingual email templates
Jumpseller, Porto
- 2021 – 2024
BSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering
FEUP, University of Porto
Outside the lab
ESN Porto
2025 – 2026
IT manager
Led the IT department of the Porto section of Europe's largest student association, which welcomes 3500+ exchange students each semester. Built the section's public website, an asset requisition platform and a scholarship evaluation platform, and a model that forecasts ESN Card demand. Won the Lobos d'Ouro award for best national IT initiative.
forecasting project ↗NIAEFEUP
2023 – 2025
UNI development team
One of the three-person UI/UX team that led the redesign of UNI, the open-source Flutter app University of Porto students use every day, then part of the team implementing it.
UNI on GitHub ↗SINF
2025
Head of the program department
Ran the program of Semana de Informática: 11 talks and 8 workshops, the largest line-up in six years. Speaker outreach, scheduling and on-site logistics with a team of volunteers.
ENEI
2024 – 2025
Program department
Recruited speakers and curated 25 talks and 21 workshops for the national meeting of informatics students.
