João Pereira
Senior Data Scientist at adidas | EngD Data Science

Amsterdam ❌❌❌
The Netherlands
I am a Senior Data Scientist at adidas in the Global Digital Data Science team in Amsterdam where I am responsible for the technical lead of two demand forecasting products. Prior to joining adidas, I completed my Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Data Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, where I worked on projects for companies like ASML (2x), Van Lanschot, TE Connectivity, Heijmans, and FIOD. Before the EngD, I conducted deep learning research on anomaly detection in time series data and completed my Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal). Meanwhile, I was lucky to have spent a semester at Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). I am broadly interested in the field of machine learning and its endless applications and passionate about turning cutting-edge research into products.
In my free time, I enjoy working out, meeting friends, traveling, and cooking new dishes.
Feel free to reach out to me with any queries!
News
Mar 20, 2023 | I was in the AWS weekly series Build on Generative AI. |
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Mar 3, 2023 | My Medium article on “Fast and scalable hyperparameter tuning and cross-validation in AWS SageMaker” is out! |
Jan 15, 2023 | I took up a new role at adidas as Senior Data Scientist! |
Mar 15, 2021 | I joined adidas as a Data Scientist in Amsterdam. |
May 20, 2020 | I gave a talk on "Anomaly Detection with Variational Autoencoders". |
Dec 1, 2019 | Gave a workshop on deep learning for the EngD Data Science. Check out the materials here. |