Miguel Roque

AI Lab Lead at Caixa Mágica Software

Miguel Roque's work experience includes being an AI Lab Lead at Caixa Mágica Software starting in January 2024. Prior to that, they worked as a Team Leader (Data and Machine Learning) for a project with DGLAB at the same company, where their team used NLP techniques for Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation. Miguel also has experience as a Machine Learning Associate Engineer at Syone and as a Researcher at Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), where they developed an Android app and a Django API for the health sector. Miguel has also worked as a Frontend Developer at World Digital Clinic and as a Collaborator at SystemsGroup - Junior Enterprise.

Miguel Roque's education history includes a Licentiate degree in Engenharia Informática e de Computadores from Instituto Superior Técnico, which they completed from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, they pursued a Curso Básico in Música from Conservatório de Música e Artes do Dão from 2009 to 2014. In 2020, Miguel also attended a Summer Course on IoT in the health sector at Instituto Politécnico de Viseu. Currently, they are pursuing a Master of Science degree in Engenharia Informática e de Computadores at Instituto Superior Técnico, which they started in 2020 and is expected to complete in 2022.

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Lisbon, Portugal

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Caixa Mágica Software

Caixa Mágica Software (CMS) is a Portuguese SME company, leader in the open source market segments in Portugal. It provides multiple services which include specialised business consulting, development of software projects, training and certification, research and innovation. CMS has developed numerous projects with diverse deployment targets, starting with its own Linux distribution, to firmwares for Android mobile phones, web portals, creation of multiple services for security, embedded systems, open architectures and mobile applications. The Linux software distribution “Linux Caixa Mágica” was born on October 2000 at a research lab of University ISCTE-IUL, winning a prestigious award "Milénio Expresso 2000"​. The distribution became rapidly very popular and as the team and demands increased, a spin-off company was created, called "Caixa Mágica Software"​. Since then, Linux Caixa Mágica has been shipping thousands of laptop and desktop computers in Portugal, covering areas such as Education, Military and Public Administration. It also is the official LPI (Linux Professional Institute) certification provider in Portugal. The company is also actively involved with the Open Source and Research communities, hosting a popular open source Lisbon event, and participated in numerous EU-funded Research projects. Caixa Mágica has strong ties with the Portuguese public administration, participating in the development of the middlewares for the Portuguese Identity Card system, and extending the concept towards its standardisation and compliant with the other European systems. It also has close interactions with the Innovation and Research departments of diverse industry such as Telecommunications and Media (working on Set-Top Boxes and other embedded systems), Energy, Mobile systems (mainly Android and iOS mobile applications, Android embedded systems, and Android TV apps), and Cloud-based platforms for supporting Manufacturing Systems.


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Lisbon, Portugal

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51-200

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