About Me

Hi! I'm a Software Engineering Ph.D. student in the CMU-Portugal Dual PhD programme, conducting research at the Software and Societal Systems Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, where I'm a member of the TQRG (The Quasar Research Group). My work sits at the intersection of formal reasoning and large language models, advised by Dr. Rui Abreu and Dr. Jonathan Aldrich.

I'm always open to collaborations. Feel free to reach out to me at tfortes(at)andrew(dot)cmu(dot)edu.

Education
  • Carnegie Mellon University and University of Porto
    Dual Ph.D. in Software Engineering
    Pittsburgh and Porto
    Sep. 2025 - present
  • University of Minho
    Master's in Software Engineering
    Braga, Portugal
    Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2025
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
    Erasmus Exchange Programme
    Munich, Germany
    Sep. 2023 - Feb. 2024
  • University of Minho
    Bachelor's in Software Engineering
    Braga, Portugal
    Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2022
Experience
  • Ambiguity Reduction in Natural Language Requirements through Autoformalization
    RExAI Workshop Paper, NFM — in progress, accepted
    Mar. 2026 - present
  • Alloy Meets Haskell: A Round-Trip Life-Cycle for High Quality Software Design
    Master's Thesis
    Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025
Activities & Leadership
  • Student Volunteer, ICSE 2026 — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    2026
  • IT Support Technician — European Parliament Elections
    2024
  • Staff Member, 26th Portuguese National Congress of Internal Medicine
    2020
Selected Publications (view all )
Ambiguity Reduction in Natural Language Requirements through Autoformalization

Eunsuk Kang, Sam Procter, Teresa Fortes, Yining She

RExAI Workshop, co-located with NASA Formal Methods (NFM) 2026 · USC, Los Angeles, California

Ambiguity Reduction in Natural Language Requirements through Autoformalization

Eunsuk Kang, Sam Procter, Teresa Fortes, Yining She

RExAI Workshop, co-located with NASA Formal Methods (NFM) 2026 · USC, Los Angeles, California

All publications