Email: rpcruz@fe.up.pt
About: Ricardo P. M. Cruz is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and a researcher at INESC TEC. His work focuses on machine learning, particularly deep learning, and computer vision. He received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science (2012), an M.Sc. degree in Mathematical Engineering (2015), both from the University of Porto, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2021) jointly from the University of Porto, Aveiro and Minho. His topics cover transversal aspects of machine learning with applications to health and autonomous driving, detailed in over 20 publications with 100+ citations.
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| Year | Student | Title | Role | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–2026 | Rodrigo André Carvalho Póvoa | Automated Dressing Saturation Analysis | Co-supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2025–2026 | Diogo Miranda de Figueiredo Sarmento | Object Insertion for Perception in Autonomous Driving | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2025–2026 | Miguel Jorge Medeiros Garrido | Quantification and Qualification of Microglia Movements | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2025–2026 | Pedro Miguel Meruge Ferreira | AI-based Diagnostic Tool of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2024–2025 | Alexandre Ferreira Nunes | From Classification to Detection: Adapting Semi-Supervised Frameworks to Object Detection | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2024–2025 | Rúben Lourinha Monteiro | Multimodal Modular Neural Network Frameworks for VR Interaction: a Comparative Study | Co-supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2024–2025 | Luís Paulo da Rocha Miranda | Unsupervised Active Learning: Which Frames are Most Important in Autonomous Driving? | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2024–2025 | João Ricardo Ramos Alves | Self-supervised Occupancy Networks in Autonomous Driving | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2024–2025 | Bruno Vieira Dias | Beyond Confidence Thresholds: Pseudo-Label Selection Strategies for Semi-Supervised Learning | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2024–2025 | Sofía Lucía | Ordinal losses for range estimation in autonomous driving | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2023–2024 | Diana Teixeira Silva | Quantifying How Deep Implicit Representations Promote Label Efficiency | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2023–2024 | Francisco Gonçalves Cerqueira | Exploring Label Efficiency with Semi-Supervision and Self-Supervision Methods | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2023–2024 | Airton Tiago | Data Augmentation for Ordinal Data | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2022–2023 | Rafael Valente Cristino | Introducing Domain Knowledge to Scene Parsing in Autonomous Driving | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2022–2023 | José António Barbosa da Fonseca Guerra | Uncertainty-Driven Out-of-Distribution Detection in 3D LiDAR Object Detection for Autonomous Driving (internship at Bosch Car Multimedia) | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2021–2022 | Ana Bezerra | Phishing Detection with a Machine Learning Net (internship at E-goi) | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências |
| 2021–2022 | Pedro Silva Pedro João Cruz Serrano e Silva | Human Feedback during Neural Networks Training | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |
| 2021–2022 | João Malheiro Baptista Marcos da Silva | Environment Detection for Railway Applications based on Automotive Technology (internship at Continental) | Supervisor | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia |