João Pereira

Data Science Lead @ adidas | EngD Data Science

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Amsterdam ❌❌❌

The Netherlands

I am a Data Science Lead at adidas where I develop machine learning solutions in the Content Intelligence space that provide better experiences to millions of users across adidas .com and App. Previously, I was Tech Lead for demand forecasting products that enable better buying, planning, and product trading for adidas’ eCom. Prior to joining adidas, I obtained my Engineering Doctorate Degree in Data Science from Eindhoven University of Technology and before that I conducted applied deep learning research on time-series anomaly detection. I am passionate about machine learning and generative AI and enjoy turning cutting-edge research into highly impactful products.

In my free time, I enjoy working out, writing blog posts, and travelling.

News

Sep 22, 2023 Our adidas X AWS paper on "Probabilistic Demand Forecasting with Graph Neural Networks" was presented at ECML-PKDD23'!
Jun 20, 2023 Published a new Medium article: “Fine-tune MPT-7B on Amazon SageMaker”
Mar 20, 2023 I joined the AWS weekly series Build on Generative AI.
Mar 3, 2023 My Medium article on “Fast and scalable hyperparameter tuning and cross-validation in AWS SageMaker” is out!
Jan 15, 2023 I took up a new role at adidas as Senior Data Scientist!
May 20, 2020 I gave a talk on "Anomaly Detection with Variational Autoencoders".

Selected Publications

  1. Probabilistic Demand Forecasting with Graph Neural Networks   1 citations
    Kozodoi, Nikita, Zinovyeva, Liza,  Valentin, Simon and 2 more authors
    In ECML-PKDD 2023 International Workshop on Machine Learning for Irregular Time Series 2023
  2. Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Energy Time Series Data Using Variational Recurrent Autoencoders with Attention   180 citations
    Pereira, João,  and Silveira, Margarida
    In 2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) Dec 2018
  3. Learning Representations from Healthcare Time Series Data for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection   91 citations
    Pereira, João,  and Silveira, Margarida
    In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) Feb 2019
  4. EngD Thesis
    FIOD Image Intelligence: An Application for Large-Scale Object Detection and Analysis
    Pereira, João
    Feb 2021