xcos-mcp
An MCP server that lets AI agents create, modify, validate and simulate Scilab/Xcos models.
Software Engineer
Gonçalo Raposo
Software engineer with a background in aerospace engineering and artificial intelligence research.
I work on backend and software engineering, primarily with Go and Python.
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About
Aerospace Engineering → AI/NLP Research → Software Engineering
My path runs from Aerospace Engineering through AI and NLP research to production software. I studied at Instituto Superior Técnico, researched at INESC-ID, worked at Unbabel, and am now a Software Engineer at Paddle.
Full professional experience on LinkedIn →02
Selected work
PositNN
Master’s thesis work · repository hosted by HPC-ULisboa
A C++ framework for training and inference with neural networks using low-precision posit arithmetic.
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Research
Information Retrieval Using Fuzzy Fingerprints
Gonçalo Raposo, Leonor Coheur, Bruno Martins · IPMU · 2024
Prompting, Retrieval, Training: An exploration of different approaches for task-oriented dialogue generation
Gonçalo Raposo, Leonor Coheur, Bruno Martins · SIGDIAL · 2023
Question Rewriting? Assessing Its Importance for Conversational Question Answering
Gonçalo Raposo, Rui Ribeiro, Bruno Martins, Leonor Coheur · ECIR · 2022
Document-Level Abstractive Summarization
Gonçalo Raposo, Afonso Raposo, André S. Carmo · Instituto Superior Técnico · 2022
PositNN: Training Deep Neural Networks with Mixed Low-Precision Posit
Gonçalo Raposo, Pedro Tomás, Nuno Roma · ICASSP · 2021
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Latest writing
Building xcos-mcp
Giving AI agents a practical interface to Scilab/Xcos models.
Read more →Can you recover a blurred image?
What reverse convolution can recover — and the information it still needs.
Read more →Double Spring Pendulum
A Lagrangian derivation and numerical experiment for a coupled spring pendulum.
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Beyond code
Outside software, I spend a fair amount of time running, travelling and falling into new technical rabbit holes. I completed an Ironman in 2024 and still enjoy building and trying new things.
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Contact
For software, research or project conversations, find me on LinkedIn or GitHub.