Tiago Oliveira
Computer Vision Research Scientist at Rakuten
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTiago Oliveira is a Computer Vision Research Scientist based in Tokyo with a decade of experience applying statistics, machine learning, and deep learning to industry R&D problems. He has transitioned from academia—holding a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and roles as assistant professor and researcher—to industry leadership as Lead Engineer at Ridge-i and now as a research scientist at Rakuten. His work bridges medical imaging and commercial computer vision, reflecting deep domain knowledge and practical deployment experience. Comfortable leading teams and lecturing, he combines rigorous research methods with product-focused development to turn prototypes into usable solutions. An understated strength is his international research footprint across Portugal and Japan, which informs a collaborative, cross-cultural approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biomedical Engineering/Medical Informatics, PhD, Biomedical Engineering/Medical Informatics at Universidade do Minho / University of Minho
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
xai7
grad-cam6
visualizations5
classification5
segmentation5
machine-learning5
object-detection5
pytorch5
computer-vision5
deep-learning4
image-classification4
vision-transformer4
ai3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tjoliveira/kmeans-implementation
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
tjoliveira/cifar10-classification-autoencoder
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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