Helena Deus, PhD

The Catalyst Program is a prestigious, nomination-based leadership development experience designed for high-potential Directors and above. With limited cohort sİzes and a rigorous selection process, it focuses on accelerating enterprise leadership capabilities through immersive modules, executive coaching, and strategic exposure. Participants develop skills in leading self, teams, and the broader organization-building executive presence, inclusive leadership, and enterprise acumen to prepare… Show more

The Catalyst Program is a prestigious, nomination-based leadership development experience designed for high-potential Directors and above. With limited cohort sİzes and a rigorous selection process, it focuses on accelerating enterprise leadership capabilities through immersive modules, executive coaching, and strategic exposure. Participants develop skills in leading self, teams, and the broader organization-building executive presence, inclusive leadership, and enterprise acumen to prepare for critical future roles. My team won the business simulation at the end of the program which was designed by BTS to mimic BMS realistic executive decision making. Show less

The MIT Grand Hack is a highly competitive hackathon that happens every year, organized by MIT, with the intent of advancing healthcare by ideating on innovative solutions to pressing problems in healthcare. In 2020, the competition was run entirely virtually, which meant that multiple international participants were also invited to join, bringing together ~900 participants. I led the team that built Onco Twin - the project that won the first place in the "Customized Cancer Care" track. We… Show more

The MIT Grand Hack is a highly competitive hackathon that happens every year, organized by MIT, with the intent of advancing healthcare by ideating on innovative solutions to pressing problems in healthcare. In 2020, the competition was run entirely virtually, which meant that multiple international participants were also invited to join, bringing together ~900 participants. I led the team that built Onco Twin - the project that won the first place in the "Customized Cancer Care" track. We competed against ~20 other teams.

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The SILVER award is given quarterly to individuals that are selected by Elsevier management team that demonstrate one or more of the key behaviors we are driving within the organization. I won one of these in 2020

Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and others in cities around the world, where teams engage with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space. Space Apps 2019 included over 29,000 participants at 225 events in 71 countries. Space Apps is a NASA-led initiative organized in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub and… Show more

Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and others in cities around the world, where teams engage with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space. Space Apps 2019 included over 29,000 participants at 225 events in 71 countries. Space Apps is a NASA-led initiative organized in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub and SecondMuse. My team won the Boston event and was one of 36 Global Finalists and one of the top 3 finalists for the Memory-Maker challenge.

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The International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) is an international mass collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space. NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number of additional government collaborators and 100+ local partner… Show more

The International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) is an international mass collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space. NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number of additional government collaborators and 100+ local partner organizations.

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The MIT GrandHack is a flagship event of MIT Hacking Medicine. It’s the world’s largest healthcare hackathon, with participants from across the country and around the globe.
The event brings together people with backgrounds in medicine, technology, and business to find solutions to today’s most pressing health issues. In 2017, there were over 400 participants - my team won a finalist award in the Smart Robotics and Intelligent Technologist track with our project… Show more

The MIT GrandHack is a flagship event of MIT Hacking Medicine. It’s the world’s largest healthcare hackathon, with participants from across the country and around the globe.
The event brings together people with backgrounds in medicine, technology, and business to find solutions to today’s most pressing health issues. In 2017, there were over 400 participants - my team won a finalist award in the Smart Robotics and Intelligent Technologist track with our project "Shadow".

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The Challenge serves several purposes:

Helps us illustrate to society what the Semantic Web can provide;
Gives researchers an opportunity to showcase their work and compare it to others;
Stimulates current research to a higher final goal by showing the state-of-the-art every year
There were 17 submissions in 2013, my team won first place for category "Big Data… Show more

The Challenge serves several purposes:

Helps us illustrate to society what the Semantic Web can provide;
Gives researchers an opportunity to showcase their work and compare it to others;
Stimulates current research to a higher final goal by showing the state-of-the-art every year
There were 17 submissions in 2013, my team won first place for category "Big Data Prize"

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This is a PhD studentship award that the Portuguese foundation for science and technology (FCT) sponsors with the aim of supporting the best graduates who wish to pursue research leading to a PhD degree, and the most creative post-doctoral researchers in pursuing cutting-edge projects, in Portuguese or foreign research centres, in all fields of research.

The success rate of these scholarships is 18% - I won one of these scholarships in 2008

The UT MDAnderson trainee Excellence Award Program grants 12 awards annually in the amount of $500 each for abstracts presented at scientific or medical society meetings

I won one of these awards in 2007

This program was designed to achieve a more effective integration of portugal with the european community. I won one of these awards in 2003

The Linked Data Cup awards prizes to the most promising innovation involving linked data. The Linked Data Cup invites scientists and practitioners to submit novel and innovative linked data sets and applications built on linked data technology, but also new insights that can be discovered throug using linked data. My team won first place in 2013