José Diogo Cunha

XR developer - Problem Solver

Biography

Biomedical engineer, that accidentally became an XR developer. Creativity and enthusiasm helped me turn ideas into “things”. Striving to be a better engineer, colleague and leader

Interests

Biomedical Engineering
Mixed Reality
Interaction Design
Artificial Intelligence

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