Carla Viegas

Carla Viegas is a dual-degree PhD student in the CMU Portugal Program currently working at the NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics. She studied Biomedical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany achieving her B.Sc. in 2014 and her M.Sc. in 2016 with excellence. During her studies she worked in research facilities like the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits and the German Aerospace Center where she respectively investigated methods for cystoscopy calibration and developed an algorithm for the control of dexterous hand prostheses using tactile sensors as human-machine-interface. Currently she is part of the project called BioVisualSpeech (http://novasearch.org/biovisualspeech/) which aims to research natural and multimodal interaction mechanisms for providing bio-feedback in speech therapy through the use of serious (computer) games. The main focus of Carla lies in creating a framework which enables the analysis of data from RGB and thermal cameras together with speech data and text annotations (from the therapist), to evaluate the progress of the therapy over time. Her main focus lies in face analysis using different imaging modalities, as well as in clinical decision support systems which include temporal reasoning. Carla also is interested in human-machine-interaction, machine learning, data fusion, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.