José Diogo Cunha

Data Scientist - Problem Solver

Biography

"Seems like a fun idea, I think I can do it!“

This one single phrase got me not only into engineering, but also into music, extreme sports and visual arts.
Curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm helped me turning ideas into “things” which made me stand out both in my work and my personal projects. With these characteristics, throughout my life, I managed to achieve academic honours and win engineering competitions, but also get into activities that are not quite the engineer stereotype.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Engineering
Virtual Reality
User Experience
Design

Education

Msc in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics, 2018
University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences
EIT Labelled Master in Innovation in Health Care, 2017
Copenhagen Business School
BSc in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics, 2016
University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences

Experience

Mixed Reality Prototyper & Unity Developer

VR Game Developer + Co-founder

Witty Platypus

Jan 2021 – Nov 2023 Lisbon - Portugal

Main developer and technical artist in the team of 2 that developed Beers and Boomerangs
Nominee for Best Game in IGN’s Rogue Jam.
Best Internation Indie Game at PGA awards.
Published the game on 5 Platforms (Oculus, Pico, Steam, iQIYI, HTC)
Co-Founded the company

Data Scientist

Perspectum

Apr 2019 – Jan 2021 Oxford - UK

Using deep-learning (U-net) applied to 3D medical Imaging to automate extremely laborious and complex manual processes, I saved thousands of company working hours.
Developed user-friendly pipelines to facilitate processes otherwise time-consuming
Developed tools for data-visualization that are used across multiple teams

Product developer - Part-time

Joysys

Feb 2018 – Aug 2018 Graz - Austria

Worked on the documentation, legislation and early-stage development of a medical software that used cardiac data to create a personalized music playlist

Researcher - Intern

Institute of Neural Engineering - TU Graz

Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 Graz - Austria

I designed and managed a project that used live machine learning on EEG data to control a video game.
Published two papers out of the results of this 8-month project