Lindeberg Pessoa Leite's PhD page

Thesis and PhD viva

• Title: A Hierarchical Domain Adaptation Method in Neural Language Models
  with Application to Taxonomy-Aware Linear B-cell Epitope Prediction
• PhD thesis
• The presentation and viva voce (defense) was held using this MS Teams link, from 14:00 Brasilia time (17:00 UK), on 28 August 2025.
• Committee:
  • Cristiano Leite de Castro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
  • João Luís Reis Cunha (University of York)
  • Luís Paulo Faina Garcia (UnB)
  • Thiago de Paulo Faleiros (UnB - suplente)
• Presentation slides and video, in Portuguese.

Qualification examination

• Title: Improving linear B-cell epitope prediction by transfer-learning from higher to lower taxonomic levels
• PhD qualification report
• The qualification presentation/viva was held using this MS Teams link, from 14:00 Brasilia time (17:00 UK), on 06 February 2023.
• Committee:
  • Cristiano Leite de Castro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
  • João Luís Reis Cunha (University of York)
  • Luís Paulo Faina Garcia (UnB)
  • Thiago de Paulo Faleiros (UnB - suplente)
• Presentation slides and video, in Portuguese.

Publications

• Lindeberg Pessoa Leite, Teófilo Emidio de Campos, Francisco Pereira Lobo, and Felipe Campelo.
  Epitopetransfer: a phylogeny-aware transfer learning framework for taxon-specific linear B-cell epitope prediction.
  bioRxiv, 2025 doi: 10.1101/2025.04.17.649425
• Patricia Medyna Lauritzen de Lucena Drumond, Lindeberg Pessoa Leite, Teofilo E. de Campos, and Fabricio Ataides Braz.
  LayoutQt - layout quadrant tags to embed visual features for document analysis
  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 122:106091, 2023. ISSN 0952-1976. doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106091
• Lindeberg Leite, Teófilo de Campos, Francisco Lobo, Felipe Campelo.
  Taxon-specific linear B-cell epitope prediction with phylogeny-aware transfer learning.
  International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB/ECCB), Book of Abstracts, 2025. doi: 10.60577/4140-24ot
• Book Chapter - Invited contribution to Artificial Neural Networks, 4th ed. (Methods in Molecular Biology series).
• Hierarchical Domain Adaptation - New article in preparation.