Research Activities

Research Subjects:

• Neural Networks
• 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 5^th 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, Antonio Carvalho 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.