Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues

Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues has an extensive work experience spanning several industries and roles. Eduarda began their career as a Research Assistant at INESC Porto in 1998. Eduarda then worked as a Teaching Assistant at University College London from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2005, Rodrigues served as a Research Fellow at University College London. Eduarda then joined Microsoft Research as a Research Consultant and Post-doc Researcher from 2005 to 2009.

In 2009, they became an Assistant Professor at Universidade do Porto, where they taught graduate and post-graduate courses in the Department of Informatics Engineering and conducted research in text mining and social computing. Rodrigues then joined Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, where they held various positions, including Principal Researcher, Technical Leader of AI & Data Analytics from 2013 to 2017, and AI Research Manager / R&D Team Lead from 2017 to 2017.

Eduarda also worked as an Invited Professor at Porto Business School from 2015 to 2022. Eduarda'smost recent role was at giffgaff, where they served as Head of Data Science, CFO Team from 2017 to 2019, and later became the Head of Data Science & Engineering, CTO Team from 2019 onwards.

Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues obtained their Licentiate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computing from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto from 1993 to 1998. Eduarda further pursued their education and completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCL between 2000 and 2004.