About me

Hey there!

I’m João, welcome to my personal page.

I alternate between research and building products.

Products

• Optimal Agriculture is on a mission to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous indoor farms outside every city on earth.
• Polys.art is an art collection that resulted from the search of the highest beauty with the fewest bits. Some pieces were done using AI and others were done manually by selected artists.
• Gymnast Training has simplified a science-based training program to gain strength without using weights.
• AI Coach was using human pose estimation to analyse athletes technique.
• many many more than are not worth mentioning..

Research

• I am interested in complex adaptable systems like evolution, economics and sociology.
• Especially proud of this paper: Mimicking Evolution with Reinforcement Learning
• Currently researching prediction markets (aka idea futures) as way to allow large scale colaboration

Education

• Started a PhD in Robotics and ML @EPFL (dropped out to build Optimal Agriculture)
• MsC in Biomedical engineering @IST
• BsC in Physics @IST

I am into personal growth, meaningful relationships, health and sports. Very proud of having represented Portugal at pole-vaulting in the European Youth Olympics, Belgrade 2007 :) !

Life at EPFL	Life in a 🍅 Greenhouse (at Optimal Labs)