Mar 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr

May 2012 – Mar 2013 · 10 mos

• Big Data: Working with Social Media Marketing team to leverage social media data into actionable sales and competitor insights for Cisco. Performing text mining for predictive analysis, trend discovery and automated tagging of conversations.
• Fog Computing: Worked on a research project in Advanced Architecture Research
• (AAR) Group. My tasks were to benchmark Open vSwitch in Xen CP with nox and beacon controllers in different scenarios and identify throughput bottlenecks in the SDN architecture.

Sep 2010 – Jun 2011 · 9 mos · Guimarães Area, Portugal

• Responsible for the organization of the first NEECUM Meeting Days event with more than 100 guests.

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Guimarães Area, Portugal

• Research work in data mining and evolutionary computation for enhancing spam detection algorithms.
• Developed a new content-based anti-spam collaborative filtering method using evolutionary computation techniques. The developed approach achieves best spam detection performance, as measured by the AUC metric, when compared to traditional bag of words methods.
• Worked with RapidMiner, Weka, Java Evolutionary Computation Library, R.