João Carvalho

Dr. João Carvalho is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Medical Data Science Group and co-founder of UTHEREAL, a startup affiliated with the ETH Zurich AI Center specializing in personalized generative AI solutions. His research focuses on model selection and training under distribution shifts, with applications in medical imaging, knowledge retrieval, and image-text integration. From 2020 to 2024, João completed his PhD in the Information Science and Engineering Group at ETH Zurich under Prof. Joachim Buhmann, developing robust machine-learning methods to address bias and distribution shifts, with contributions to representation learning, image segmentation, unsupervised learning, and anomaly detection in clinical settings. He holds an integrated Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon. His undergraduate research at the Instituto de Telecomunicações explored clustering algorithms for biosignal processing, focusing on epileptic seizure prediction and emotion estimation in autism. João also interned at CardioID Technologies, where he developed a blood pressure monitoring prototype using PPG and ECG, and at Cleverly (acquired by Zendesk), where he contributed to data annotation. His master’s thesis at the Champalimaud Research Institute involved deep-learning models for detecting and segmenting pulmonary nodules in CT scans.