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I am a Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), working with Niranjan Nagarajan at the MTMS Lab. My research focuses on AI and machine learning methods for nanopore signal analysis and genomics data. My current projects include RNA secondary structure probing and the detection of Non-Canonical Bases (NCBs) in phages. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) A*STAR, where I developed an AI method for the direct sequencing of synthetic DNA containing Non-Canonical Bases, also known as Unnatural Bases.

I obtained my PhD in 2021 from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in Singapore, under supervision of Prof. Alex Kot, working at Rapid-Rich Object Search (ROSE) Lab. Where I explored RGB-D data (pose/skeleton information) for Human Interaction Recognition in videos.

Previously, from 2014 to 2016, I was a master's student at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), worked at REasoning for COmplex Data (RECOD) lab, under the supervision of Anderson de Rezende Rocha. Explored Deep Learning approaches, more specifically Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, along with motion information, such as Optical Flow and MPEG Motion Vectors, for solving the pornography detection problem. During my masters I worked with a specialized group in a project, funded by Samsung, for sensitive media analysis (i.e. filtering violent or pornographic videos). In 2014 our group achieved 2nd place in Violent Scenes Detection: Generalisation Task of MediaEval multimedia benchmarking (see Publications section for more details).

Research Interests:

• AI for Science

• Nanopore Sequencing

• Machine Learning

• Action/Event Recognition

• Computer Vision

Contact Information:

• Current email: mauriciolp [AT] nus [DOT] edu [DOT] sg

• Previous email: mauricio_lisboa_perez [AT] a-star [DOT] edu [DOT] sg

Useful Links:

• LinkedIn

• Scholar

• Github

• ResearchGate

• Lattes

Last updated on September 2026