Alexandra Oliveira is a Data Scientist consultant, an integrated researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Sciences Laboratory (LIACC) of the University of Porto, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Health of the Polytechnic of Porto. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from University of Porto, as well as two post-doctoral degrees in Artificial Intelligence.
For over 10 years at the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, she has been a professor in the areas of Biomathematics, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics, teaching and supervising master's theses on various applications of data science/artificial intelligence in health.
Her doctoral thesis focused on Public Health applications, where she worked with data from the national HIV/AIDS notification system, modeling them considering all human and technical factors affecting these systems.
At LIACC, where she has been collaborating since 2018, she primarily supervises master's theses in computer engineering involving data analysis, mostly with applications in individual or public health.
With over 10 years of experience in data science, she has developed solutions in various fields such as individual and public health, well-being assessment, and risk management applied to food inspections. She has worked on creating questionnaires, data analysis, forecasting, interpretable predictive and classification models, developing suitable methodologies for extracting valuable knowledge from databases, and has experience in producing technical and scientific documentation.