Resume
Contact Information
Luis Pedro Coelho Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Fifth Avenue, 7405 GHC Pittsburgh, PA 15213 lpc at cmu dot edu
Education
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. in Computational Biology, 2006–2011 (expected).
- Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Diploma [M.Sc.] in Computer Engineering, 2004–2006.
- Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Diploma [B.Sc.] in Computer Engineering, 1999–2004. One year spent at Technical University of Vienna (Austria) as international exchange student.
Scholarships
- Portugal's Science and Research Foundation Ph.D. scholarship since October 2007.
- 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
- Cell Cycle Dependence of Protein Subcellular Location Inferred from Static, Asynchronous Images by Taraz Buck, Arvind Rao, Luis Pedro Coelho, Margaret Fuhrman, Jonathan W. Jarvik, Peter B. Berget, and Robert F. Murphy, EMBC 2009.
- Nuclear segmentation in microscope cell images: A hand-segmented dataset and comparison of algorithms by Luis Pedro Coelho, Aabid Shariff, and Robert F. Murphy, ISBI 2009.
- Structured Literature Image Finder by Amr Ahmed, Andrew Arnold, Luis Pedro Coelho, Joshua Kangas, Abdul-Saboor Sheikk, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, and Robert F. Murphy, Proceedings of BioLINK (ISMB Special Interest Group 2009).
- Unsupervised Unmixing of Subcellular Location Patterns by Luis Pedro Coelho and Robert F. Murphy, Proceedings of ICML-UAI-COLT 2009 Workshop on Automated Interpretation and Modeling of Cell Images (2009).
- Identifying Subcellular Locations from Images of Unknown Resolution by Luis Pedro Coelho; Robert Murphy, Bioinformatics Research and Development, Springer, Volume 13, Vienna, Austria (2008)
- An Adaptive Multiresolution Approach to Fingerprint Recognition by 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)
- Dotted Suffix Trees: A Structure for Approximate Text Indexing by Luis Pedro Coelho; Arlindo Oliveira, SPIRE (2006)
See also my full annotated list of publications
Invited Talks
- Proteome-scale analysis and modeling of subcellular location, Luis Pedro Coelho, 4th CeBiTec Symposium BioImaging, Bielefeld, Germany 25-27 August 2009
- Unsupervised Mixture Pattern Unmixing, University of Bielefeld International Graduate School of Bioinformatics and Genome Research, July 2008.
Other Talks
- Determining Resolvable Subcellular Location Categories as a Function of Image Resolution, Luis Pedro Coelho & Robert F. Murphy, 24th ISAC Congress, Budapest, May 2008.
Languages
- Bilingual: Portuguese and English
- Fluent oral and good written German (attended a German-speaking school, grades 5 through 12; spent a year at the Technical University of Austria).
- Fluent oral and good written French
- Basic knowledge of Spanish
Work Experience
Teaching
Designed and taught a course in computer programming for the sciences (Programming for Scientists). This was a semester-long course taught at Carnegie Mellon University in Spring 2009 (as a student-taught course).
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). Teaching Assistant for Laboratory Methods for Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University (Spring 2008).
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). Currently administers the website for the Portuguese American Postgraduate Association (pro bono).
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 from 2000 through 2006. Maintainer of the application kghostview.
Publishes and maintains many open source projects of interest to his research, such as image processing or machine learning code. See the full list in my github page.
Awards
- Outstanding Research Accomplishment
Award for Research Excellence in the Joint CMU-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (2007).
- Academic Excellency
Diploma of Merit from Instituto Superior Técnico for academic excellency in the academic year 1999/2000. Award for Academy Excellence in the Joint CMU-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (2007).
- Abitur
Letter of recognition of excellency in German Final Secondary Exam (Abitur).
- Fiction Writing
Second Price in the literature contest Lisboa à Letra 2004 for fiction.
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