Álvaro Figueira
I graduated in Mathematics Applied to Computer Science, from Faculty of Sciences (UP) in 1995, and took my MSc in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology, from Imperial College, London, in 1997. In 2004 I concluded my PhD in Computer Science in concurrent and distributed programming.
I am currently an Assistant Professor, with tenure, at Faculty of Sciences in University of Porto. My research interests are in the areas of text and web mining, community detection, e-learning and web-based learning and standards in education.
I'm also a researcher in the CRACS Research Unit where I have been leading international projects involving University of University of Porto, Texas at Austin, University of Coimbra and University of Aveiro, regarding the automatic detection of relevance in social networks.
Publications
Clustering source code from automated assessment of programming assignments
Paiva, JC;Leal, JP;Figueira, A;
2024
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS
New Insights in Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
Figueira, Á;Renna, F;
2023
GANs in the Panorama of Synthetic Data Generation Methods
Vaz, B;Figueira, Á;
2024
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Comparing Semantic Graph Representations of Source Code: The Case of Automatic Feedback on Programming Assignments
Paiva, JC;Leal, JP;Figueira, A;
2024
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS