Zita Marinho
Assistant Professor at Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon)
Lisbon, Lisbon, United States
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Top SchoolZita Marinho is a Research Scientist at DeepMind with 12 years of experience at the intersection of reinforcement learning, robotics, and applied machine learning. She holds a PhD in Robotics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and has blended academic rigor with industry impact through roles at Priberam (NLP and health-focused ML) and applied data science positions. Her background includes international research internships (ESA, University of Tokyo) and an Erasmus stint at EPFL, reflecting a strong global and multidisciplinary perspective. At DeepMind she contributes to RL research while drawing on a rare combination of robotics PhD training and hands-on applied ML experience in product-focused teams.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Student, Machine Learning and Robotics, Erasmus Student, Machine Learning and Robotics at EPFLDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Physics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning8
natural-language-processing4
audio2
macos1
word2vec1
text-analysis1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ahefnycmu/rpsp
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:18 commits in 1 month
zmarinho/ss-anchors
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:519 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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