Afonso Ferreira

Afonso Ferreira is a MSc student in Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico and a research fellow at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT-IST), specializing in biomedical signals, image processing and instrumentation. His main interests focus on machine learning applications in medical image segmentation as well as prototyping wearable devices with the ability to predict clinical events. More recently, he has been working on the development of innovative and discrete wearable devices for monitoring epileptic patients and researching various form factors of biomedical sensors alongside the ScientISST team.