Vasco Ramos
Vasco Ramos

Computer Science PhD Candidate

NOVA University of Lisbon
NOVA LINCS
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Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Factual Generation and Understanding
  • Image and Video Generation
Education

  • PhD Computer Science

    NOVA University of Lisbon

  • MSc Computer Science and Engineering

    NOVA University of Lisbon

  • BSc Computer Science and Engineering

    Portalegre Polythecnic Institue

Recent Publications
Vasco Ramos, Yonatan Bitton, Michal Yarom, Idan Szpektor, Joao Magalhaes (2025). Contrastive Sequential-Diffusion Learning: Non-Linear and Multi-Scene Instructional Video Synthesis. 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
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Guilherme Fernandes, Vasco Ramos, Regev Cohen, Idan Szpektor, Joao Magalhaes (2025). Latent Beam Diffusion Models for Generating Visual Sequences. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20429.
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João Bordalo, Vasco Ramos, Rodrigo Valério, Diogo Glória-Silva, Yonatan Bitton, Michal Yarom, Idan Szpektor, Joao Magalhaes (2024). Generating coherent sequences of visual illustrations for real-world manual tasks. 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Rafael Ferreira, Diogo Tavares, Diogo Silva, Rodrigo Valério, João Bordalo, Inês Simões, Vasco Ramos, David Semedo, Joao Magalhaes (2023). TWIZ: The wizard of multimodal conversational-stimulus. Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2 Proceedings.
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Experience

  1. PhD Researcher

    NOVA LINCS
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  2. Graduate Researcher

    NOVA LINCS
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Education

  1. PhD Computer Science

    NOVA University of Lisbon

  2. MSc Computer Science and Engineering

    NOVA University of Lisbon
    Thesis: 20/20 Final Grade 17/20

  3. BSc Computer Science and Engineering

    Portalegre Polythecnic Institue
    Final Project: 19/20 Final Grade 17/20
Skills & Hobbies
Awards
Distinction Diploma - Top of the Class (MSc Computer Science and Engineering)
NOVA School of Science and Technology ∙ January 1970
Achieved the top overall academic record (GPA) among all students in the Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering program.
Winner of Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2
Amazon Science ∙ January 1970
Winner of the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2, a global university competition hosted by Amazon.
Top Graduate of the School
Portalegre Polythecnic Institute - Delta Cafés ∙ January 1970
Honored as the top-ranked student among all graduates from the School of Technology and Management (ESTG). This award is conferred annually to the individual with the highest overall academic record across all bachelor’s degree programs within the school.