Mario Figueiredo

Mario Figueiredo

Mário Figueiredo is an IST Distinguished Professor and holder of the Feedzai Chair on Machine Learning at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. He also serves as a group leader at Instituto de Telecomunicações and is the Director of the ELLIS Unit Lisbon. His research career spans a broad range of topics, including statistical machine learning, image processing, optimization, inverse problems, and increasingly, causal inference and discovery. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IAPR, EURASIP, and ELLIS. His contributions have been recognized with the EURASIP Individual Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Award, and the IAPR Pierre Devijver Award. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the Portuguese Academy of Engineering.

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    University of Lisbon
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    IST Distinguished Professor, Feedzai Chair on Machine Learning at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
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