Alexandra M. Carvalho

Alexandra M. Carvalho is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. She is also a researcher at the Pattern and Image Analysis Group (PIA) within the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Her academic journey includes a five-year degree in Applied Mathematics from IST (1998), a Master's in Computer Science (2004), and a PhD in Computer Science (2011), both from IST. Her research focuses on machine learning, bioinformatics, Bayesian networks, and medical informatics, with applications in healthcare, genomics, and longitudinal data analysis.

Education:

• Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics, IST, 1998
• Master’s in Computer Science, IST, 2004
• PhD in Computer Science, IST, 2011

Research interests emphasize structured motif discovery, probabilistic graphical models, survival analysis, and time-series data mining. Key contributions include algorithms for motif extraction in DNA sequences, dynamic Bayesian networks for disease progression modeling, and tools like GRISOTTO and RISO for bioinformatics. She has been awarded the Sartorius Innovation Award and recognition from BioMed Central for impactful publications.

Her work spans interdisciplinary collaborations, including projects on cancer systems biology, pharmacokinetic modeling, and clinical decision support. She advises numerous MSc students and has secured grants from FCT and EU initiatives. Notable software contributions include AliClu for clinical data clustering and METEOR for outlier detection in time series.

Labs/Teams: Active in the PIA Group and KDBio Group (INESC-ID), focusing on computational methods for biomedical data analysis.