Biomedical AI Engineering

Rafael Silva

Research & ML EngineerBiomedical AI & time-series ML

I build ML systems for physiological time series, from longitudinal risk modelling to efficient inference on embedded hardware.

PhD candidate · Inria / Université Côte d’Azur · 1M+ BioSPPy downloads · NeurIPS 2026 paper accepted

Open to Research Engineer, Applied Scientist & ML Engineer roles

Rafael Silva
Rafael SilvaPhD candidate · Inria
Sophia Antipolis, France

Healthcare · Biosignals · Medical devices

Selected Work
BioSPPy downloads
1M+
FIMH 2025
Best Paper
Inria · Epione
PhD candidate

02Experience

Research & engineering experience

Biomedical AI research, teaching and industry collaboration.

Dec 2023 – Present

PhD Candidate – Computer Science

Inria, Epione Team – Université Côte d'Azur

Designed and implemented SurviFormer end to end for longitudinal AFib risk prediction. Developed compact ECG models with Inn’Pulse, with Caroline Stehlé’s help on quantization and STM32 implementation. Research in Inria’s Epione team, supervised by Maxime Sermesant.

InriaUniversité Côte d'Azur
2023 – 2026

Teaching Assistant

Université Côte d'Azur

AI & Health to Medical Professionals, Analog Electronics (BSc). Theoretical and practical sessions.

CHU de NiceUniversité Côte d'Azur
2022 – 2023

AI Researcher

Instituto de Telecomunicações

Industry-applied collaboration with CardioID Technologies for well-being and cardiac arrhythmia detection.

CardioID TechnologiesInstituto de Telecomunicações

Education

Dec 2023 – Present

PhD in Computer Science

Université Côte d’Azur · Inria

In progress · Deep learning for cardiac monitoring.

2020 – 2022

Master in Technological Innovation in Health (MTiH)

EIT Health & Université Grenoble Alpes

European master's programme focused on healthcare innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology management.

2019 – 2021

MSc in Biomedical Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Thesis on AI for atrial fibrillation detection in single-lead invisible ECG.

03Skills

Core expertise

Tools and methods I use to build biomedical ML systems.

Biomedical ML

ECG / PPGTime SeriesLongitudinal AnalysisSurvival AnalysisInterpretability

Signal Processing

FilteringSegmentationArtifact RemovalFeature ExtractionHRV

Deep Learning Engineering

PyTorchPythonModel OptimizationData ParallelismW&B

Deployment

DockerLinuxEmbedded InferenceSTM32INT8 Quantization

Collaborations

I’ve worked with machine learning researchers, clinicians, biomedical engineers and industry partners.

  • Inria
  • Université Côte d’Azur
  • Instituto de Telecomunicações
  • CardioID
  • Inn’Pulse
  • CIIA-Saúde (UFMG)

04Publications

Selected publications

Published and accepted work in biomedical signal processing, cardiac AI and efficient deep learning.

05Awards

Selected recognition

Healthcare · Biosignals · Medical devices

Let’s discussyour next ML challenge.

Hiring for research engineering, applied ML or physiological signal processing? I’d be glad to discuss how my work could contribute to your team.

Research Engineer · Applied Scientist · ML Engineer — Healthcare, biosignals & medical devices