João Veiga - Director of AI¶
Lisbon, Portugal | Codeberg | GitHub | LinkedIn
Biomedical Engineer turned Data Scientist. My passion is to make a positive impact in tangible situations. First by helping the ICU team at a public hospital to significantly improve organ collection screening. Currently defending top-tier Financial Institutions against fraud and money laundering.
Professional Experience¶
Feedzai¶
Over 10 years building and deploying Machine Learning models in critical systems to fight financial crime.
Director, Product AI | 2025 - Present
- Grow the Product AI function.
- Responsible for long term AI strategy execution in coordination with Research and Custoner Success leaders.
Senior Manager, Product AI | 2022 - 2025
- Lead the Product AI team across all product domains: Transaction fraud, AML, Digital Trust, key partnerships and new AI products.
- Build and launch Feedzai IQ suite of products.
Data Scientist | 2015 - 2022
- Joined Feedzai still in startup stage with 50 employees.
- Worked on Product (e-commerce), Customer Success (internet banking), and back to Product (DS tooling, innovation).
- Responsible for the first models making automatic decisions.
- Responsible for the worst model ever in production which in less than a week turned out to be the start of a continuous model development lifecycle capable of reducing chargebacks by 60% over the course of six months.
Centro de Investigação e Criatividade em Informática (CI)²¶
Published works:
- EURO-HEALTHY
- Imaging Screening of Catastrophic Neurological Events Using a Software Tool: Preliminary Results
Project Manager | 2013 - 2015
- Supporting the execution of Health Big Data and Decision Support Systems projects.
Researcher | 2013 - 2015
- Information Retrieval from Electronic Health Records utilizing Natural Language Processing.
Education¶
Instituto Superior Técnico¶
Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering | 2006 - 2012