Greetings!

My name is Luís Pedro Pires Borges and I’m from Lisbon, Portugal. I completed my Bachelor’s and my Master’s degree at the Instituto Superior Técnico. My M.Sc. work concerned the application of Deep Learning techniques to a fake news detection problem, more precisely, the task specified by the Fake News Challenge.

My research interests lie in the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Deep Learning. Currently, I am pursuing a Dual-Degree Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies, offered by the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, and the Carnegie Mellon University. I am working under the supervision of Professors Bruno Martins and Jamie Callan. My current research is on Sparse Information Retrieval systems. For more information regarding my professional life, please consult the CV section on this webpage.