Hardware Implementation
and Fault Tolerance of Neural Networks
Control and Distributed Systems
Renewable Energy
Projects: List
of projects I am or have been involved:
'MTL - Marítimo Training LAB', ProCiência 14-20, Pending evaluation.
'MITI-Excell - Improving MITI's Excellence in R&D and leveraging international', Horizon 2020, Pending evaluation.
'Vision 3D - Portable
solutions for 2D and 3D visualization for endoscopy medical intervention',
submitted in 2014 to the +Knowledge program with the company Awaiba, Pending evaluation.
'SmartSOLAR - Solar Management Plataform', submitted in 2014
to the +Knowledge program with the company FactorEnergia,
Pending evaluation.
'MAGNIFIC - Madeira
Global Neural Interactive FPGA Industrial Controller', submitted in 2014
to the +Knowledge program with the Italian company Electronics and
Computers Highlights, Pending evaluation.
'Energy Management in
the Penteada Building', funded by the University
of Madeira and the Mayor of Funchal. 2011-2015.
OTIC-TeCMU - Laboratory for technology and knowledge transfer, funded by the program Intervir+, since June 2012. Participation: responsible
for energy efficiency action.
'UNAMUNO Atlantic Axis',
with the universities of Azores, Cape Vert, La
Laguna and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, funded by
program MAC, in July 2010. Participation: member of the University of
Madeira team.
'TOUREG - Toureg-Research Driven Cluster for Tourism Sector,
Competitiveness and Knowledge', started in 2008, funded by the European
Community in FP7-REGIONS. Participation: representation of the University
of Madeira.
'Automatic
Implementation of functions in FPGAs through MATLAB', funded by the
research fund of the University of Madeira - Santander Bank in 2008 .
Participation: proponent and team leader.
'Neuromorphic
Robot' funded by the research fund of the University of Madeira -
Santander Bank in 2008. . Participation: proponent and team leader.
'Hardware Implementation
of a Neural Network with an embedded microprocessor' funded by the
research fund of the University of Madeira - Santander Bank in 2007.
Participation: proponent and team leader.
'DISCO: Distributed
Embeddable Systems for Control Applications', funded by the Portuguese
foundation for science and technology (FCT). Implemented at the University
of Aveiro 2001-2003. Participation: researcher.
'Instrumentation for
Control of the Atmosphere and Combustion Gases', funded by the Rectorship of the University of Aveiro,
implemented at the University of Aveiro,
1998-2002. Participation: researcher.
Awards: I
have been awarded a few distinctions from the scientific comunity:
Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Engineering Applications, 2019.
Best Student Paper at the Energy and Sustainability in Small Developing Economies, 2019.
NVIDIA GPU Grant Program support, 2018.
Best Paper at the International Conference in Biomedical Engineering, 2018.
Best Student Paper at the Energy and Sustainability in Small Developing Economies, 2018.
Best Student Paper at the Workshop on Electronics Applications and System Integration for Future Technologies, 2018.
Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Mathematical Applications, 2018.
2017 Cátedra Telefónica da Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canária.
2017 Publons Top 1 percent peer reviewer in the Multidisciplinary area.
Best Student Paper at the 5th IEEE International Conference and Work Shop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI 2017).
Poster Poster Award in the thematic area of "PV Economics, Markets and Policies", EU PVSEC 2016.
Best paper in Power and Energy Engineering in OPTIROB, Romania, 2015.
Best student paper Award in the Electronic Imaging conference, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2015.
Dr. Fernão
de Ornelas 2012 Prize - Technologic Innovation
in the social area, from the Mayor of Funchal,
Madeira, with the work 'Energy Management in the Penteada
Building', Morgado Dias, Adriano Lopes, AntonioCarvalho and Filipe
Oliveira;
Best paper in session
CCS-07 Robust Controllers I, in the 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society for the paper 'Additive Internal Model
Control: an Application with Neural Models in a Kiln', Sevilla,
Spain, 2002.
Second place in the
category of best student project, with the ASIC 'AMBROSIO: Advanced
Microchip for Broadband System Improvement and Optimization', in the
conference 5th Eurochip Workshop, Dresden,
Germany, 1994.