Jorge Miguel Silva

Postdoctoral Researcher

Federated Genomics • Data Compression • Biomedical AI

jorge.miguel.ferreira.silva@ua.pt

IEETA, University of Aveiro, Portugal

jorgemfs.com

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

2023 – Present

IEETA, University of Aveiro

• Technical lead for GDI & FEGA Portugal node – European Genomic Data Infrastructure
• Task leader for FAIR-FEGA project (ELIXIR)
• Principal Investigator for federated genomic infrastructure projects

PhD Researcher (FCT Grant)

2017 – 2023

IEETA, University of Aveiro

• Developed genomic data compression algorithms and tools
• Biomedical NLP and question answering systems
• Projects: SCREEN-DR, MMIR, EHDEN, EMIF

Research Fellow

2016 – 2017

IEETA, University of Aveiro

Bioinformatics tools development for genomic data analysis

Selected Publications

AltaiR: alignment-free simulation, mapping, and visualization
GigaScience, 2024

Enhancing metagenomic classification with compression-based features
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2024

The complexity landscape of viral genomes
GigaScience, 2022

Automatic analysis of artistic paintings using information-based measures
Pattern Recognition, 2021

Persistent minimal sequences of SARS-CoV-2
Bioinformatics, 2020

Open Source Tools

VCFX PhenoQC HYMET BioChef fed_rf PANTHER AlcoR AltaiR CANVAS

Education

PhD Computer Engineering

University of Aveiro

2017 – 2023

MSc Bioengineering

FEUP, University of Porto

2010 – 2016

Metrics

Publications

h-index

330+

Citations

Repositories

Awards

BioASQ Challenge 2023

Winner – Task 11B & MedProcNER

IEEE CBMS 2018

Best Student Paper Award

Leadership

FEGA Portugal Operations Coordinator

Portuguese FHD Community Coordinator

Skills

Languages

C/C++, Python, Bash, Java, R

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, HPC, CI/CD

Research

Genomics, ML, Compression, NLP

Links

github.com/jorgeMFS

orcid.org/0000-0002-6331-6091

scholar.google.com