Catarina Barata

Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and Researcher at ISR-Lisboa, LARSyS

Catarina Barata (CB) is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Researcher at ISR, where she is currently a member of its scientific committee. She is a Scholar Member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and its Lisbon Unit (LUMLIS).

Her main line of research focuses on the application of machine learning models to societal problems, mainly healthcare, aiming for development of explainable artificial intelligence models. In 2021 she received a Google Research Award for her work in personalizing treatment for skin cancer patients, where she addressed the identification of molecular biomarkers across various imaging modalities.

She participated in several research projects, leading two of them and was the co-PI of ISR for the Center for Responsible AI, a consortium of companies, startups and research units funded by the RRP. Presently she is the PI of one national project (MMIST) and the ISR-coordination of two European Projects (NextGen and MULTISCOPE), all focusing on the development of multimodal systems in different healthcare applications.

She currently supervises four PhD students (plus one concluded), having also supervised +45 master theses and one visiting professor, published +20 articles in scientific journals, and presented +40 papers at international conferences. She is involved in the organization of the annual ISIC Workshop at top conferences, including CVPR, ECCV, MICCAI.