I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, Portugal.

In my research, I am interested in the application of machine learning in the development of general intelligent autonomous agents capable of interacting with complex, possibly unknown environments. Concretely, my primary research interests are in general reinforcement learning both in single and multiagent systems and in the applications of this framework to real world problems, including robotic and sensor network applications. I am also particularly interested in developing computational models that may contribute to a better understanding of learning in biological systems.