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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
I have been a researcher in Mathematics since 2002, in different research institutions. At the moment I am employed at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Institute Jozef Štefan. I started my research career early when in the fall of 2001 I became a TA of Prof. Teresa Almada, the Coordinator for Mathematics at Universidade Lusofona, being responsible for the courses of Algebra III, IV and V as well as for Algebraic Topology. In 2005 I started my Master thesis working on lattices of equivalence relations, a topic that I presented at the Algebra Seminar of the University of Ljubljana in 2005, and at the Solomonov Seminar of the Institute Jozef Štefan in 2006. Also during 2006 I was employed at the Gulbenkian Science Institute working with Gabriela Gomes on the project Gripenet. From 2008 to 2012 my research work was focused on the study of the coset structure of skew lattices.
The following information describes in more detail the research work I have been developing so far. For the slovenian COBISS information please visit www.cobiss.si or the COBISS Info that is available in this website. For the SICRIS Slovenian Science registry, please visit my SICRIS ID or search for me at www.sicris.si. Some information is also available in this website under SICRIS Info.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Lattice Theory - Universal Algebra - Semilattices - Semigroup Theory - Heyting Algebras - Formal Logic - Directed Topology - Category Theory - Computational Topology - Topological Data Analysis
Research papers
Research papers
M.Besher Massri, Joao Pita Costa, Andrej Bauer, Marko Grobelnik, Janez Brank, Luka Stopar (2020). A global COVID-19 observatory, monitoring the pandemics through text mining and visualization. Informatica (submitted 2020)
Joao Pita Costa, Luis Rei, Luka Stopar, Flavio Fuart, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenić, Inna Novalija, Anthony Staines, Jarmo Pääkkönen, Jenni Konttilad, Joseba Bidaurrazaga, Oihana Belar, Christine Henderson, Gorka Epelde, Mónica Arrúe Gabaráin, Paul Carlin, Jonathan Wallace. NewsMeSH: a new classifier designed to annotate health news with MeSH headings. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (in press, 2021).
Tomaž Martinčič; Dejan Štepec; Joao Pita Costa; Kristijan Čagran; Athanasios Chaldeakis (2020). Vessel and Port Efficiency Metrics through Validated AIS data. Conference proceedings of Oceans 2020. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4014876 Publication
M.Besher Massri, Joao Pita Costa, Andrej Bauer, Marko Grobelnik, Janez Brank, Luka Stopar (2020). Monitoring COVID-19 through text mining and visualization. Proceedings of the SIKDD 2020. Publication Conference
Joao Pita Costa, Marko Grobelnik, Flavio Fuart, Luka Stopar, Gorka Epelde, Scott Fischaber, Piotr Poliwoda, Debbie Rankin, Jonathan Wallace, Michaela Black, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Dale Weston, Paul Carlin, Roberto Bilbao, Gorana Nikolic, Xi Shi, Bart De Moor, Minna Pikkarainen, Jarmo Pääkkönen, Anthony Staines, Regina Connolly, Paul Davis. Meaningful Big Data Integration for a Global COVID-19 Strategy. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 15.4 (2020): 51-61.
R. Bilbao, et al (2020) "Development of a Big Data Project: in Public Health: MIDAS Project” chapter of the monograph No. 25 of the Bioethics and Health Law Collection of the Merck Health E-Health Foundation: E-change of the health model. Publication Monograph
J. Pita Costa, F Fuart, B Cleland, J Wallace, A Staines, O Belar, J Bidaurrazaga, J Pääkkönen, G Epelde, P Poliwoda. The meaningfulness of open data in Public Health and Healthcare. The European Journal of Public Health. European Journal of Public Health 29.Supplement_4 (2019): ckz186-080.
J. Pita Costa and J. Leech (2019). On the coset structure of distributive skew lattices. The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics, Vol 2 No 2.
J. Leech and J. Pita Costa (2019). Open problems on skew lattices. The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics, Vol 2 No 2.
J. Pita Costa, Fuart, F., Stopar, L., Grobelnik, M., Mladenić, D. (2019) Health News Bias and its impact in Public Health. Slovenian Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehouses (SIKDD 2019)
J. Pita Costa., Fuart, F., Stopar, L, Paolloti, D., Hirsch, M., Carlin, P., Mexia, R. (2019) Local-to-global analysis of influenza-like-illness data. Slovenian Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehouses (SIKDD 2019)
A. Oleksiak, M. Kierzynka, W. Piatek, M. vor dem Berge, W. Christmann, S. Krupop, M. Porrmann et al. (2018). "M2DC—A Novel Heterogeneous Hyperscale Microserver Platform." In Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers, pp. 109-128. Springer.
J. Pita Costa, F. Fuart, M. Grobelnik, G. Leban, A. Košmerlj, and E. Belyaeva (2018). Health news media, public health and digital epidemiology. Data and Algorithm Bias workshop at the CIKM conf. 2018.
K. Cvetko-Vah, J. Pita Costa (2018). On the update operation in skew lattices. IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications (accepted).
J. Pita Costa, L. Stopar, F. Fuart, M. Grobelnik, Santanam R., Sun C., Carlin P., Black M. and Wallace J.G., 2018, October. Text mining MEDLINE to support public health. In SiKDD 2018: Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehouses.
J. Pita Costa, P. Škraba, D. Paolotti, R. Mexia (2018). A topological data analysis approach to Influenza-like-illness. KDD Healthday 2018.
J. Pita Costa, L. Stopar, F. Fuart, M. Grobelnik, R Santanam, C. Lu, P. Carlin, M. Black, J. Wallace (2018). Mining MEDLINE for the visualisation of a global perspective on biomedical knowledge. KDD Project Showcase 2018.
J. Pita Costa, F. Fuart, M. Grobelnik, G. Leban, L. Stopar, P. Carlin (2017). Text mining open datasets to support public health. Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS2017)
J. Pita Costa, T. G. Grbac (2017). A methodology to evaluate the evolution of networks using topological data analysis. SiKDD 2017.
J. Pita Costa, Fuart, F., Grobelnik, M., Leban, G., and Belyaeva, E (2017). Challenges in media monitoring of worldwide news sources to support public health. SiKDD 2017.
J. Pita Costa, M. Rihtar and M. Grobelnik (2017). Data Analytics in Aquaculture, KDD 2017 proceedings, Halifax, Canada.
J. Pita Costa. Topological data analysis and applications. Proceedings of the 40th Jubilee International ICT Convention – MIPRO 2017, 2017.
J. Pita Costa and T. Galinac Grbac. The Topological Data Analysis of Time Series Failure Data in Software Evolution. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering Companion. ACM, 2017.
J. Pita Costa (2017). Topological data analysis and applications. Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2017 40th International Convention on. IEEE, 2017.
J. Pita Costa and M. Rihtar (2016). Data Analytics in Aquaculture, SIKDD, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
L. Fajstrup and J. Pita Costa (2016) On the hierarchy of d-structures . Order. Vol 34 (1): 139–163.
J. Pita Costa and M. Rihtar (2016) Data Analytics in Aquaculture, Proceedings of the Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehouses - SiKDD 2016.
J. Pita Costa, P. Škraba and M. Vejdemo Johansson (2015) Variable sets over an algebra of lifetimes. arXiv:1409.8613. To be submitted to Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
J. Pita Costa, P. Škraba and M. Vejdemo Johansson (2015) The power of pullbacks: meets and joins in persistence. To be submitted to Discrete and Computational Geometry
J. Pita Costa and P. Škraba (2015) A topological data analysis approach to the epidemiology of Influenza. Proceedings of the Conference on Data Mining and Data Warehouses - SiKDD 2015.
Joao Pita Costa, Daniela Paolotti, Flavio Fuart, Primož Škraba, Evgenia Belayeva, Inna Novalija (2015) Supporting Epidemic Intelligence, Personalised and Public Health with advanced computational methods. EM-Health Workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
J. Pita Costa and P. Škraba (2015) Topological epidemiological data analysis, Poster at the ACM Digital Health Conference 2015, Firenze, Italy.
J. Pita Costa and P. Škraba (2014) Topological analysis of Influenza data, Poster at the ECCS14, Lucca, Italy.
M. Kinyon, J. Leech and J. Pita Costa (2015) Distributivity in skew lattices. Semigroup Forum. Vol. 91(2): 378-400.
J. Pita Costa and K. Cvetko-Vah (2015) Flat coset decompositions of skew lattices. Semigroup Forum. Vol. 92(2): 361-376.
J. Pita Costa, P. Škraba and M. Vejdemo Johansson (2014) Aspects of an internal logic of persistence. arXiv:1409.3762.
J. Pita Costa and P. Škraba (2014) A lattice for persistence. arXiv:1307.4192.
J. Pita Costa. On the coset category of a skew lattice (2014) Demonstratio Mathematica. Vol. XLVII No. 3: 539--554.
J. Pita Costa. Modularity for Skew Lattices. Manuscript. [in preparation]
J. Pita Costa (2012) On the Coset Structure of Skew Lattices. Ph. D. Dissertation (mentored by Karin Cvetko-Vah), University of Ljubljana.
J. Pita Costa (2012) On ideals of a skew lattice. Discussiones Mathematicae 32: 5--21.
J. Pita Costa (2012) Coset laws for categorical skew lattices. Algebra Universalis. 68: 75-89.
K. Cvetko-Vah and J. Pita Costa (2011) On the coset laws for skew lattices. Semigroup Forum Vol. 8 No. 3:395–411.
K. Cvetko-Vah and J. Pita Costa (2010) On the coset laws for skew lattices in rings. Novi Sad J. Math 40.3: 11–25.
J. Pita Costa (2011) On the coset structure of a skew lattice. Demonstratio Mathematica Vol. XLIV No. 4: 673—692.
J. Pita Costa (2007) A Operação Estrela e Outras Histórias. Mcs Dissertation (mentored by L. Sequeira), Fundo Geral Monografias, Lisboa.
J. Pita Costa (2004) Estruturas Algébricas e Homomorfismos, uma introdução à Álgebra Universal, Diploma Dissertation (mentored by R. Vaquinhas), Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa.
Non-scientific papers
Non-scientific papers
J. Pita Costa & PIXEL project team (2021) The first real-time IoT data-driven solution for environmental efficiency and much more, Port Technology International - The e-journal of ports and terminals 116: pp 3-5, UK.
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports
2016 J. Pita Costa, M. Rihtar. Aquaculture smart and open data analytics as a service, in Aquasmart - Deliverable D2.3, CORDIS.
2015 J. Pita Costa, P. Škraba. The topological data analysis of InfluenzaNet, in Toposys - Deliverable 4.2: Progress in WP4, CORDIS.
2015 J. Pita Costa, M. Vejdemo-Johansson, P. Škraba. Topos of Persistence, in Toposys - Deliverable 3.1: Progress in WP3, CORDIS.
2015 L. Rei, M. Karlovec, G. Leban, D. Mladenic, M. Grobelnik, J. Pita Costa, I Koval, M. Papler. Early version of Social media based policy indicators in Symphony - Deliverable 2.2, CORDIS.
2014 Hierarquies of Maps, in Toposys - Deliverable 1.1: Progress in WP1, CORDIS.
Citations
Citations
2015 Jonathan Leech. "Skew lattices." Book (to appear).
2012 Michael Kinyon, and Jonathan Leech. "Categorical skew lattices." Order, 1-15.
Conference Talks & Posters
Conference Talks & Posters
2016.10.10 Data Analytics in Aquaculture, SIKDD, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015.10.12 Supporting epidemic intelligence, personalised and public health with advanced computational methods. Delavnica EM-Zdravje, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015.10.05 A topological data analysis approach to the epidemiology of Influenza. SIKDD, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015.07.20 The topos foundation of persistence, Applications of Algebra, Kalamata, Greece.
2015.06.22 Persistence on Sheaves over Lifetimes, ACAT Summer School, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015.06.16 The topos foundation of persistence, Conference on Dynamics, Topology and Applications, Bedlewo, Poland.
2015.05.18 Topological epidemiological data analysis, ACM Digital Health Conference 2015, Firenze, Italy.
2015.03.01 Skew distributive lattices and computational topology, AAA89 General Algebra Conference, Dresden, Germany.
2015.02.04 On the topos foundation of persistence , Computational Topology Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.
2014.09.23 Topological analysis of Influenza data, ECCS14, Lucca, Italy.
2014.09.08 The order structure of extended persistence, Toposys Meeting, IST Vienna.
2014.06.20 Recent contributions of lattice theory to topological data analysis, AAA88, Warsaw, Poland.
2014.05.27 Towards a Topos for Persistence, ATMCS 6, Vancouver, Canada
2013.09.18 Order structures for Topological Data Analysis. ECCS 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
2013.07.22 The Persistence Lattice, Applied Topology Conference, Bedlewo, Poland.
2013.07.04 Heyting algebra over the persistence diagram. Summer School on Computational Topology and Topological Data Analysis, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2013.06.11 The Persistence Lattice, CSASC Joint Mathematical Conference, Koper, Slovenia.
2013.06.08 The Persistence Lattice, Novi Sad Algebra Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2012.06.19 Coset Laws for Skew Lattices. 5th Croatian Mathematical Congress. Rijeka, HR.
2011.07.26 On skew ideals. Groups and Semigroups: Interactions and Computations. Lisbon, PT.
2011.06.24 On ideals for skew lattices. 82th Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra, Potsdam, DE.
2010.05.30 On the coset structure of skew lattices in rings. 6th Linear Algebra Workshop, Kranjska Gora, SI.
2010.06.23 On categorical skew lattices, International Conference on Algebras and Lattices, Prague, CZ.
2010.05.30 On the coset structure of categorical skew lattices. 80th Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra, Bedlewo, PL.
2009.09.07 On skew lattices. Summer School on General Algebra and Ordered Sets, Stara Lesna, SK.
Invited Talks
Invited Talks
2013.11.06 On the contributions of lattice theory to the study of persistent homology. Topology and Category Theory Seminar, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
2013.11.01 Locales for topological data analysis. Seminário do Projecto Reticulados, Álgebra Universal e Lógica Algébrica, CAUL Algebra Seminar, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2013.10.24 Order structures for topological data analysis. Seminar of the Society of Mathematicians and Physicists of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
2012.10.23 Contributions to skew lattice theory. Solomonov Seminar, Inštitut Jozef Štefan, Ljubljana, SI.
2012.10.04-12 Working seminars on noncommutative lattices. CAUL, University of Lisboa, PT.
2009.12.10 Skew Boolean logic. Logic Seminar, MIMS, University of Manchester, UK.
2006.09.26 Some operations on the lattice of equivalence relations. Solomonov Seminar. Jozef Štefan Inštitute, Ljubljana, SI.
2006.04.19 An introduction to the theory of linear lattices. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
Seminar Talks & Workshops
Seminar Talks & Workshops
2015.09.02 On the stability of the persistence topos, Toposys Final Meeting, Krakow University, Poland.
2015.06.10 Topological analysis of Influenza data, BioTech Department, University of Rijeka, Croatia.
2015.05.27 A topos foundation of persistence. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2015.05.27 Skew distributive lattices in the topos foundation of persistence, Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2014.11.19 Topological analysis of Influenza data, AI Lab, Inštitut Jozef Štefan, Ljubljana, Slovenija.
2014.10.08 Variable sets over an algebra of lifetimes: a contribution of lattice theory to the study of computational topology. arxiv:1409.8613. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2014.06.04 Towards a Topos for Persistence, AI Lab, Inštitut Jozef Štefan, Ljubljana, Slovenija.
2014.04.25 Towards a topos foundation for persistence with applications. Seminar of the Society of Mathematicians and Physicists of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
2014.03.18 Towards a topos foundation for persistence part II. Seminar of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenija.
2014.02.19 A topos for topological data analysis with possible applications for Influenzanet. AI Lab, Inštitut Jozef Štefan, Ljubljana, Slovenija.
2014.02.18 Towards a topos foundation for persistence part I. Seminar of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenija.
2013.10.23 Heyting algebra over the persistence diagram. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2013.08.15 Heyting algebra over the persistence diagram. FP7 Toposys EU Project Meeting, Israel.
2013.05.28 The Persistence Lattice, Algebra Seminar, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2013.05.16 The Persistence Lattice, Artificial Inteligence Seminar, Inštitut Jozef Štefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2012.10.24 Flat coset decomposition of skew lattices. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2012.05.18 On the Coset Structure of Skew Lattices. Ph. D. defense (mentored by Karin Cvetko-Vah), University of Ljubljana. [beamer presentation]
2012.02.03 Coset structure decomposition. Seminário de Reticulados, Álgebra Universal e Lógica Algébrica, CAUL, Lisboa, PT.
2011.10.28 Coset structure decomposition. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2011.04.11 A categorical approach to skew lattices. Seminar za osnove matematike in teoretične računalništva, FMF, Ljubljana, SI.
2011.02.21 On skew ideals. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2010.12.20 On the coset structure of skew lattices. Seminário de Álgebra, CAUL, University of Lisbon, PT.
2010.10.14 On the coset structure of skew lattices. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2010.05.03 On categorical skew lattices. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2010.01.08 Skew Boolean algebras. CAUL, University of Lisboa, PT.
2009.12.17 On Skew Lattices. CAUL, University of Lisboa, PT.
2009.11.24 On parallelogram laws for skew lattices in rings. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2009.04.16 On parallelogram laws for skew lattices. University of Ljubljana, SI.
2008.09.25 A categorical perspective on skew lattices. University of Ljubljana, SI.
2007.12.05 The star operation and other stories. Seminar za Algebro, Fakulteta za Matematika, Ljubljana, SI.
2007.11.15 A operação estrela e outras histórias. Seminário de Álgebra, CAUL, University of Lisbon, PT.
2006.10.22 Algumas operações no reticulado das relações de equivalência. Seminário de Álgebra, CAUL, University of Lisbon, PT.
2006.04.05 Introdução à teoria dos reticulados lineares. Seminário de Álgebra, CAUL, University of Lisbon, PT.
University Visits & Exchanges
University Visits & Exchanges
2014.04.14-18 Graham Ellis and Herbert Edelsbrunner, IST, Vienna, Austria
2013.11.01-10 Maria Joao Gouveia, Research Center CAUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2012.10.04-12 Maria Joao Gouveia, Research Center CAUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2009.12.15 - 2010.01.10 Maria Joao Gouveia, Research Center CAUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2009.12.02-15 MIMS, University of Manchester, UK.
2006.04.16-19 Matjaž Omladič, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2005.02.12 - 07.30 Erasmus, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Prizes & Awards
Prizes & Awards
2013 FP7 PostDoc under the EU Project Toposys
2007 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal (with the reference SFRH / BD / 36694 / 2007).
2002 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Projects & Associations
Projects & Associations
2018 EWSHOPP, Big Data analytics for market assessment, H2020
2017 MIDAS, Big Data to support Public Health decision-making, H2020
2016 DD-DeCaF, Horizon 2020 Project on Bioinformatics for Multi-Omics, H2020 .
2013 Toposys, EU Project on Computational Topology, FP7.
2012 Mathema, Institute for promotion of Mathematics, Slovenia.
2007 Gripenet, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal.
2005 ProfMat, National Mathematics Teachers Association, Portugal.
2005 AEGEE, European Students Forum, Slovenia & Portugal.
Proudly presenting my main influences, in scientific research, I list below some of the professors that, within my academic path, were of great relevance and will always be present on my career acknowledgement.
Andrej Bauer Karin Cvetko-Vah Ganna Kudryavsteva Flavio Fuart Tihana Grbac Marko Grobelnik Gregor Leban Dunja Mladenić Matjaž Omladič Margarita Ramalho Luis Sequeira Primož Škraba Mikael Vejdemo Johansson
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