luispedro

Personal Information

Luís Pedro Coelho
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue,
C119 Hammerschlag Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
lpc at cmu dot edu

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
  Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. in Computational Biology, 2006–2010 (expected).

• Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
  Diploma [M.Sc.] in Computer Engineering, 2004–2006.
  Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.

• Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
  Diploma [B.Sc.] in Computer Engineering, 1999–2004.
  One year spent at Technical University of Vienna (Austria) as international research student.

Scholarships

• Fulbright Fellowship for Ph.D. Study in the US, 2006/07.

• Portugal’s Science and Research Foundation research scholarship from December 2004 through July 2006.

Publications

• Dotted Suffix Trees: A Structure for Approximate Text Indexing, Luís Pedro Coelho; Arlindo Oliveira , SPIRE 2006
• An Adaptive Multiresolution Approach to Fingerprint Recognition Amina Chebira; Luis Pedro Coelho; Aliaksei Sandryhaila; Stephen Lin; William G. Jenkinson; Jeremiah MacSleyne; Christopher Hoffman; Philipp Cuadra; Charles Jackson; Markus Püschel; Jelena Kovacevic , International Conference on Image Processing, (2007)

Languages

• Mother tongue: Portuguese
• Fluent written and oral English
• Fluent oral and good written German
• Fluent oral and good written French
• Basic knowledge of Spanish

Work Experience

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for Decision Support Systems at Technical University of Lisbon (Spring 2005). Co-designed and co-taught a Computer Initiation Course for Adults in a social housing project (pro-bono).

Webdesign

Designed the website for ICSV12 (Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration) and administered the website for the Portuguese non-profit Medicos Pela Escolha (pro-bono).

Administrative

Administrative, Account-keeper for Student Association, German School of Lisbon (1998),
Producer of the Student Theatre Group of ist (2001–2002),
Account-keeper of the Student Theatre Group of ist.

Open Source Programming

Member of the kde project. Maintainer of the application kghostview.

Awards

Abitur

Letter of recognition of excellency in German Final Secondary Exam (Abitur).

Academic Excellency

Diploma of Merit from Instituto Superior Técnico for academic excellency in the academic year 1999/2000.

Fiction Writing

Second Price in the literature contest Lisboa à Letra 2004 for fiction.