Dr Alan Guedes

Email:
a.guedes@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
Lecturer in Computer Science

Responsibilities:Postgraduate Research Programme Director

Office

Room 142

Building location

Polly Vacher

Areas of interest

Multimedia Systems
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Graph-based Machine Learning
LLMs for Video Understanding

Teaching

CSIOP
CS3TM

Research centres and groups

Computational Vision Group
Synthetic Media Research Network
Alan Turing Institute Interest Group on Media in the Digital Age

Background

I am a Lecturer at the University of Reading working on leveraging machine learning to optimise both traditional and immersive media technologies. Previously, I was a postdoc at UCL and did PhD at PUC-Rio. I have experience acting as a team leader or PI in multiple funded research projects (e.g., immersive media, video analysis and interactive TV) and contributed to research communities (ACM SIGMM, SBC WebMedia) and standard committees (ITU-T SG16, Brazilian TV Forum).

Academic qualifications

Ph.D. in Computer Science 2017. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M.Sc. in Computer Science 2012. Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil.
BSc. in Computer Science 2009. Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil.

Professional bodies/affiliations

ACM SIG Multimedia