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João d'Oliveira Coelho
Summary
João is a self-taught programmer with an academic background in biological anthropology. João did his masters in Human Evolution and Biology at the University of Coimbra, while simultaneously creating osteomics.com where he worked extensively with 3D printing and photogrammetry, and also developed web applications for bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists. His research interests are in geospatial paleoanthropology, geometric morphometrics and osteology, from both forensic and evolutionary perspectives. João is currently on the fourth year of his DPhil at the University of Oxford. For his thesis, João is automating geospatial search for fossil sites in Africa, using computer vision and machine learning approaches. João is doing fieldwork in Koobi Fora, Kenya, and Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, to ground-test his fossil site detection and paleoenvironmental reconstruction models based on satellite data.