David Martins de Matos

David Martins de Matos is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and a senior researcher at INESC-ID Lisbon within the Human Language Technology Lab. With a career spanning over three decades, he has taught subjects such as Compilers and Object-Oriented Programming since 1993. His research focuses on Natural Language Engineering, Automatic Natural Language Generation, Music Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning Applications in Healthcare.

Education:

• B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST, 1990)
• M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST, 1995) on object-oriented programming in distributed systems
• Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Science (IST, 2005) on automatic natural language generation

Research Interests: His work bridges Natural Language Processing and Computational Music Analysis, with applications in Health Informatics. He investigates semantic frame induction, dialog act recognition, and multimodal systems for chronic pain assessment, Alzheimer's detection, and music generation. His recent articles explore cross-modal retrieval, deep learning for pain narratives, and embodied semantics via fMRI.

Scientific Contributions: He has published over 161 works, including 15 recent articles on chronic pain datasets, dialog act recognition, and music-language correlations. His awards include Senior Member status in ACM (SIGMM, SIGIR) and IEEE (Signal Processing Society, Computer Society), and membership in the Order of Portuguese Engineers.

Advising & Collaborations: He has supervised 111 doctoral and master's theses, mentoring students in topics like Visual Story Generation, Music Summarization, and Health Informatics. He collaborates with institutions such as IBM Research, Northwestern University's Feinberg School, and Universidade de Lisboa.