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2008 EDITION

INTRODUCTION

This 2008 edition of the Research Guide of the IST Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – DEEC Research Guide – updates the 2005 edition, taking into account the emergence of a new research centre, and adds new items and indexes to allow an easier hand access of IST graduate students and visitors to information about the research activities of DEEC professors. This edition of the DEEC Faculty Research Guide lists information about 7 research units, and 135 Professors, all of them with a PhD degree, and strongly committed to teaching, research and innovation activities. DEEC conducts teaching activities in the following main scientific areas:

Computers Electronics Power and Energy Systems, Decision and Control Telecommunications

DEEC is responsible (or co-responsible) for the following graduation engineering degrees:

MEEC – Master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering MERC - Master degree in Communication Networks Engineering MEE - Master degree in Electronics Engineering MAE - Master degree in Aerospace Engineering

DEEC is also responsible (or co-responsible) for the following PhD programs:

PDEEC – PhD Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/cursos/deec ) PInfSec – PhD Program in Information Security (https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/cursos/deaseginf )

Some PhD students from the PDEEC program may obtain a dual PhD degree from IST and from CMU, USA. Most research activities are partially funded by the Public Authorities and carried out within research units (institutes/centres) associated with Instituto Superior Técnico (IST):

CAPS - Center for Analysis and Signal Processing CEG-IST – Center for Engineering, Management and Economics Cie3 - Center for Innovation in Electrical and Energy Engineering INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em

Lisboa IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics IT - Telecommunications Institute

Research units are periodically evaluated by panels of international scientists and their reports are available in the web. Most of the research carried out by the faculty of DEEC has been ranked as Excellent or Very Good. This guide is organized in two parts and indexes:

1st - Research institutes/centres associated with DEEC (mission, research areas and groups, cooperation and contacts)

2nd – DEEC Professors (Teaching and research units/groups, research topics, papers, cooperation, contacts) We hope you may find it useful. Prof. João Paulo Teixeira Prof. Fernando Alves da Silva Prof. Pedro Girão DEEC Chairman DEEC VP, R&D DEEC Post-Graduation Coordinator

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DEEC - CONTACTS DEEC – Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores Address: IST, Torre Norte, Av. Rovisco Pais nº 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal Tel: (+351) 218 417 292 Fax: (+351) 218 417 190 Email: [email protected] www.deec.ist.utl.pthttps://fenix.ist.utl.pt/departamentos/deec

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RESEARCH UNIT

CAPS - Center for Analysis and Signal Processing

MISSION

The research activities of the Digital Communications Group involve digital transmission theory and techniques, with radio applications. In recent years, the main activities have been concerned to broadband communications, namely within the next generation of mobile radio systems. The research activities of the Group of Acoustics and Noise Control are developed in the areas of room acoustics modelling, environmental acoustics, sound quality, measurement techniques, duct acoustics and silencers, and assistive technologies.

Research Areas @IST

Research Groups 1 - Group of Acoustics and Noise Control 2 - Digital Communications Group

Industry/Research Cooperation

Number of DEEC professors:

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Director: Prof. Gusmão Correia

Address: Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Fone: (+351) 21 8419393

Fax: (+351) 21 8465303

e-mail: [email protected]

URL: http://caps.ist.utl.pt/

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CEG-IST - Centro de Estudos de Gestão do IST

MISSION

The Centre for Management Studies of IST (CEG-IST) integrates a multidisciplinary research and development team with twenty six PhDs, most of them belonging to the Department of Engineering and Management of IST. Scientific Areas: Decision and Information, Strategy and Organization, Operations and Logistics, Sustainable Development, Economics and Finance, Knowledge Integration.

Research Areas @IST

Engineering, Economics and Management (E-E&M)

Research Groups 1 - Decision & Information 2 - Economics & Finance 3 - Operations & Logistics 4 - Strategy & Organization 5 - Sustainable Development



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Director: Prof. Ana Paula Ferreira Dias Barbosa Póvoa

Address: Instituto Superior Técnico, DEG, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Fone: (+351) 21 8417729

Fax: (+351) 21 8417979


URL: https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/investigacao/CEG-IST

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Cie3 - Center for Innovation in Electrical and Energy Engineering

MISSION

The mission of Cie3 is to enhance a position as an internationally recognized center of excellence in electrical and energy engineering (EEE). The focus of the center’s research work is in the areas of electrical and energy engineering and economics, with particular attention to applied electromagnetics, electronic and semiconductor devices, energy conversion, power electronics, power quality, power and energy systems, and public and environmental policies.

Research Areas @IST

1 - Energy, Environment and Mobility; 2 - Production Engineering and Technologies; 3 - Technology Management & Innovation.

Research Groups 1 - Applied electromagnetics and electronics devices 2 - Alternative energies / electric energy conversion 3 - Power electronics and power quality 4 - Power and energy systems 5 - Public and environmental policies


- ERSE - CP - Siemens - Qenergia - Metropolitano de Lisboa


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Director: Prof. João Santana

Address: Cie3 – Instituto Superior Técnico, Pav. Electricidade, Av.Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Fone: (+351) 218417215

Fax: (+351)-21-8417167


URL: https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/research/Cie3

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INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

MISSION

INESC-ID aims to produce added value to people and society in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The mission of INESC-ID is to develop tomorrow’s technologies by excelling in research, today. The main objectives of INESC-ID are: - Integrate competences from researchers in electrical engineering and computer science to advance the state of the art in computers, telecommunications, and information systems; - Support the first stages of the value generation chain: basic research, applied research, and advanced education; - In cooperation with other institutions, perform technology transfer, support the creation of technology based startups, and provide technical support.

Research Areas @IST

1 - Information and Communication Technologies; 2 - Applied Life Sciences

Research Groups 1 - Spoken Language Systems 2 - Information and Decision Support Systems 3 - Interactive Virtual Environments 4 - Embedded Electronic Systems 5 - Communication Networks and Mobility


- IST - ISCTE - ESTIG


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Director: Prof. Arlindo Oliveira

Address: Rua Alves Redol, 9 , 1000-029 Lisboa

Fone: (+ 351) 21 3100300

Fax: (+ 351) 21 3145843


URL: http://www.inesc-id.pt

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RESEARCH UNIT

IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

MISSION

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN) is a research unity of "Instituto Superior Técnico" (IST) with activities on nuclear fusion, plasma technologies and ultra-intense lasers. IPFN has integrated the former CFN-Associated Laboratory of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and is the research unit of the Contract of Association between IST and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM), in force since January 1st 1990. IPFN is a member the network that supports the European Ph. D. Programme on Fusion Science and Technologies.

Research Areas @IST

1 - Energy 2 - Basic Sciences 3 - Information and Communication Technologies 4 - Nanoscience, microtechnology & materials

Research Groups 1 - Experimental Physics on Magnetic Nuclear Fusion 2 - Microwave Diagnostics 3 - Theory and Modeling of Magnetic Fusion Plasmas 4 - Control and Data Acquisition 5 - Lasers and Plasmas 6 - Gas Electronics and Discharges


- EFDA-European Fusion Development Agreement - Max-Planck Institut fur PlasmaPhysik(Garching) - ITER - CIEMAT (Madrid) - CRPP-EPFL (Lausanne) - UKAEA(Culham) - CEA (Cadarache) - USP (Brasil)


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Director: Prof. Carlos Varandas

Address: Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa

Fone: (+351)) 218 417696

Fax: (+351) 218 417819


URL: http://www.ipfn.ist.utl.pt/

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ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics

MISSION

ISR-Lisbon is a university based R&D institution where multidisciplinary advanced research activities are developed in the areas of Robotics and Information Processing, including Systems and Control Theory, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Optimization, AI and Intelligent Systems, Biomedical Engineering. Applications include Autonomous Ocean Robotics, Environmental Monitoring and Habitat Mapping, Surveillance, Search and Rescue, Satellite Formation, Personal Assistant Robotics, Communication Networks and Multimedia.

Research Areas @IST

Research Groups 1 - VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab 2 - DSOR - Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Lab 3 - LaSEEB - Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab 4 - ISLab - Intelligent Systems Lab 5 - LRM - Mobile Robotics Lab 6 - SIPG - Signal and Image Processing Group 7 - SCTG - Systems and Control Theory Group



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Director: Prof. Victor Barroso

Address: ISR – Instituto Superior Técnico, Torre Norte - 7º Piso, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Fone: (+351) 218418289

Fax: (+351)-21-8418291


URL: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt

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IT - Telecommunications Institute

MISSION

IT mission is to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications. IT is actively involved in fundamental and applied research in telecommunications both at national and international level. Simultaneously IT is committed to foster higher education and training, by hosting and tutoring graduate and postgraduate students.

Research Areas @IST

Research Groups 1- Wireless communications (Antenna Modelling and Design; Wireless Circuits and Devices; Transmission and Reception Systems; Waves and Propagation; Radio Network Planning) 2 - Optical communications (Optical Components and Sub-systems; Optical Communication systems; Optical Networking) 3 - Networks and Multimedia (Architectures and Protocols; Speech Analysis and Recognition; Network Applications and Services; Network Operations, Management and Planning; Processing, Analysis, and Coding of Audio and Visual Information; Traffic Engineering; Pattern Recognition and Automatic Learning) 4 - Basic sciences and enabling technologies (Applied Mathematics; Impact of Telecommunications on Society; Integrated Circuits and Systems; Instrumentation and Measurement; Technology and Materials; Power Electronics and Power Systems; Logic and Computation)


- Agência Espacial Europeia - Agência de Inovação - Telecom (PT Inovação, Optimus, Vodafone, TMN, Celfinet,...) - Siemens Networks - ANACOM - Ministério da Defesa (Marinha)


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Director: Prof. Carlos Salema

Address: Instituto de Telecomunicações Instituto Superior Técnico Torre Norte, piso 10, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 P-1049-001 LISBOA, PORTUGAL

Fone: (+351) 21 841 84 54

Fax: (+351) 21 841 84 72


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2. DEEC - FACULTY

2.1. Computers

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Name Augusto Júlio Domingues Casaca Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1979, Univ. of Manchester, UK Research Area Computer Networking Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Communication Protocols, Architecture of Wireless Sensor Networks, Delay Tolerant

Networks. Research Topics The research interests are presently centered in the area of computer networking. In

the last years research work was centered on IP routing protocols, MPLS network architecture and quality of service in IP networks. Nowadays, the main research interests are centered on the application of wireless communications for real-time control of vehicles in an airport environment, on the evolution of the IP network architecture, on the architecture of sensor networks and on delay tolerant networs. The present research interests are materialised by the participation in the European research projects AIRNET (Control of vehicles in an airport environment by using GPS/EGNOS and Wi-Fi networks), Euro-NF (Anticipating the Network of the Future), UbiSec&Sens (architecture of sensor networks including security aspects) and LocON (Platform for an inter-working of embedded localisation and communication systems).

Best 5 papers A.Casaca, A.Sarma (editors), Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Special Issue on “Towards a New Internet Architecture”, Volume 40, Issue 1, ISSN 1389-1286, 16 September 2002. A. Casaca, “Quality of Service in Information Networks”, capítulo do livro Information Technology – Selected Tutorials, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-8158-8, pp. 1-20, August 2004. J.Neves, P.Pereira, A.Casaca, Proportional Service Differentiation with MPLS, Proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Springer, ISBN 10: 0-387-34825-5, pp. 157-169, Santiago, Chile, August 2006. Y.Brehon, D.Kofman and A.Casaca, Virtual Private Network to Spanning Tree Mapping, IFIP Networking 2007 Conference, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer, ISBN-10 3-540-72605-5, pp. 703-713, Atlanta, USA, May 2007. A.Casaca, T.Silva, A.Grilo, M.Nunes, F.Presutto, I.Rebelo, The Use of Wireless Networks for the Surveillance and Control of Cooperative Vehicles in an Airport, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s11235-007-9063-z, December 2007.


- In most recent years, cooperation with ANA Aeroportos, EDP and INA at national level. - Cooperation with several industrial and university partners at European level within the research projects. - Collaboration with Carnegie-Mellon University in the area of Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100233; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1987, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group L2F - Spoken Language Systems Lab Keywords Speech

Recognition Synthesis

Research Topics Speech synthesis and recognition, namely for the Portuguese language; Speech coding (PhD topic, area in which she holds an international patent); Language and dialect identification, including processing other varieties of Portuguese; Application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to spoken documents: topic detection, machine translation, summarization, information retrieval, etc.; Spontaneous speech processing, namely in what concerns disfluencies and emotions; Application of language processing techniques to computer aided language learning (Portuguese for foreign students).

Best 5 papers R. Amaral, H. Meinedo, D. Caseiro, I. Trancoso, J. Neto, A Prototype System for Selective Dissemination of Broadcast News in European Portuguese, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, vol. 2007, n. 37507, May 2007. D.Caseiro, I. Trancoso, A Specialized On-the-Fly Algorithm for Lexicon and Language Model Composition, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, vol. 14, n. 4, pages 1281-1291, July 2006. I. Trancoso, J. Neto, H. Meinedo, R. Amaral, "Evaluation of an alert system for selective dissemination of broadcast news", Proc. EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech'2003), Geneve,Switzerland, Sept. 2003. I. Trancoso, "Speech Synthesis and Recognition", Tutorial, Proc. ICASSP'2000 - Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000. I. Trancoso, B. Atal, "Efficient Search Procedures for Selecting the Optimum Innovation in Stochastic Coders", IEEE Trans. On Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 1990. This paper was integrated in the collection of papers selected by the Acoustical Society of America - Papers in Speech Communication: Speech Processing (1991).


- RTP - Portugal Telecom

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100268; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/~imt/

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Name Luís Miguel Teixeira D'Ávila Pinto da Silveira Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1994, MIT_Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group ALGOS - ALGorithms for Optimization and Simulation Keywords Electronic Design Automation, Model Order Reduction, Circuit Simulation,

Interconnect Modeling, Parallel Computing Research Topics The broad area of research activity is the development of numerical algorithms for design

automation problems. The focus has been on various aspects of computer-aided design of integrated circuits with emphasis on parallel computer algorithms and the theoretical and practical issues concerning numerical simulation methods for circuit design problems. For several years I have been researching efficient algorithms and techniques for problems in modeling, extraction and simulation. I have worked on timing analysis, modeling of frequency-described systems, model order reduction techniques for the analysis of interconnect and packaging effects, as well as the related issues of coupled circuit-interconnect system simulation and verification. Recently this work has been extended to encompass the modeling and analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems as well as parallel algorithms for hierarchical analysis of massively coupled complex dynamical systems such as substrate networks or power grids. My present research interests can be divided into three main thrusts. The first one is related to to the development and study of algorithms for modeling and analysis of massively coupled linear dynamic systems, such as substrate networks or power grids. Here standard order reduction techniques are clearly inefficient and simulation is challenged by both the inability to compress the representation of the networks as well as the lack of generic and robust techniques for input modeling. The second one is related to reduced order modeling of nonlinear systems, which naturally leads to the open area of analog macromodeling where accurate feature compression can lead to enormous design productivity gains. Finally, the third main thrust is related to efficient data structures and algorithms for analysis and simulation of complex hierarchical systems, for which parallel computation emerges as a potential solution.

Best 5 papers Joel R. Phillips, Luis Miguel Silveira, Poor Man's TBR: A simple model reduction scheme, IEEE Transaction on Computer Aided-Design of Integrated Circuits, No. 1, Vol. 24, 43-55, Janeiro 2005. Carlos Coelho, Joel R. Phillips, Luis Miguel Silveira, A Convex Programming Approach to Generating Guaranteed Passive Approximations to Tabulated Frequency-Data, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, No. 2, Vol. 23, 293-301, Fevereiro 2004. Mattan Kamon, Nuno Cabrita Marques, Luis Miguel Silveira, Jacob K. White, Automatic generation of accurate circuit models of 3-d interconnect, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology - Part B: Advanced Packaging, No. 3, Vol. 21, 225-240, Agosto 1998. Luis Silva, João Marques da Silva, Luis Miguel Silveira, Karem Sakallah, Satisfiability models and algorithms for circuit delay computation, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, No. 1, Vol. 7, 137-158, Janeiro 2002. Luis Miguel Silveira, Mattan Kamon, Ibrahim Elfadel, Jacob K. White, A coordinate-transformed Arnoldi algorithm for generating guaranteed stable reduced-order models of RLC circuits, Special Issue of Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering on Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics, No. 3, Vol. 169, 377-389, Fevereiro 1999.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100337; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://algos.inesc-id.pt/~lms

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Name José Alberto Baptista Tomé Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Soft Computing of Information and Decision Support Systems Keywords Research Topics Computers Best 5 papers José Tomé, João Carvalho, "One Step Ahead rediction using Fuzzy Boolean Neural

Networks", Joint EUSFLAT-LFA 2005, 4th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology and 11eme Rencontres Francophones sur la Logique Floue, Sep. 2005. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Qualitative Optimization of Fuzzy Causal Rule Bases using Fuzzy Boolean Nets, IFSA 2005 - Eleventh International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Jul. 2005 , pp. 1781-1787 , Springer - Tsinghua University. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Qualitative Modelling of an Economic System using Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, FUZZ-IEEE 2004 - IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Jul. 2004. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps - Expressing Time in Qualitative System Dynamics, Proceedings of the FUZZ-IEEE2001, Sep. 2001. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Automatic Implementation and Simulation of Dynamic Qualitative Systems Using Fuzzy Boolean Networks and RB-FCM, Proceedings of the joint IFSA2001/NAFIPS2001, 9th IFSA World Congress, Jul. 2001. [bibTeX]

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100262; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://comp.ist.utl.pt/uke

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Name Mário Serafim dos Santos Nunes Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1987, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Wireless Networks, Quality of Service. Research Topics Computer Networks. Wireless Networks. Quality of Service (QoS) in IP Networks.

End-to-end QoS in audio and video services. Best 5 papers A. Grilo, P. Carvalho, L. Medeiros andM. S. Nunes, "VTOA/ VoIP/ N-ISDN

Telephony Gateway", Annals of Telecatcommunications, HERMES Science Publiations, Vol. 55, nº 11-12, December 2000, pp. 589-600. A. Grilo, P. Estrela and M. S. Nunes, "Terminal Independent Mobility for IP (TIMIP)", IEEE communications Magazine, Volume 39, Issue 12, December 2001, pp. 34-41. A. Grilo, M. Macedo, M. S. Nunes, “A Scheduling Algorithm for QoS Support in IEEE802.11e Networks”, IEEE Wireless communications Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 3, Junho 2003, pp 36-43. A. Grilo, M. Macedo, and M. S. Nunes, “IP QoS Support in IEEE 802.11b WLANs”, Computer communications, Elsevier,Volume 26, Issue 17, November 2003, pp 1918-1930. J. Monteiro, R. Vaz, A. Grilo and M. S. Nunes, “Rate Adaptation for Wireless Video Streaming Based on Error Statistics”, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Inderscience Publishers, Issue 4, 2005, June 2005.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100256; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://comp.ist.utl.pt/msn

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Name Guilherme Dinis Moreno da Silva Arroz Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1986, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit None Research Group Keywords Digital Systems; Computer Architecture; Asynchronous systems Research Topics In the moment I am too much involved in Academic Management to be serious about

research Best 5 papers Guilherme Arroz, José Monteiro, Arlindo Oliveira, Arquitectura de computadores:

dos Sistemas Digitais aos Microprocessadores ISBN: 978-972-8469-54-2, IST Press, 2007. António Carlos da Cruz Semedo Varela and Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques and Guilherme Arroz, An integrated approach to service management in the next generation Internet, EuroFGI Workshop in IP QoS and Traffic Control - QoS 2007, Dec. 2007 , IST Press Rufino, J., Veríssimo, P., Arroz, G.: “Node Failure Detection and Membership in CANELy”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN03). San Francisco, California, USA. June 2003. José Rufino, Paulo Veríssimo and Guilherme Arroz, Design of Bus Media Redundancy in CAN, Proceedings of FeT'99 - International Symposium on Fieldbus Systems and their Applications, Magdeburg, Germany, September 1999. José Rufino, Paulo Veríssimo and Guilherme Arroz, A Columbus' Egg Idea for CAN Media Redundancy, Digest of Papers of the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 1999.


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Name Horácio Cláudio de Campos Neto Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group ESDA - Electronic Systems Design and Automation Keywords Reconfigurable Computing, Digital Systems Design, Computer Architecture. Research Topics His main research interests are Computer Architecture and Digital Systems Design,

with emphasis in Reconfigurable Computing. Reconfigurable computing (RC) involves the use of reconfigurable hardware for computing purposes. Reconfigurable devices, such as field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) can be (re)configured, even in the middle of a computation, to implement specific hardware designs. By directly adapting the hardware to the needs of a given algorithm, RC systems are able to outperform conventional processor solutions for a wide variety of applications. The research on reconfigurable architectures focuses on the design of specific computing systems for applications that require more processing power than can be provided by traditional microprocessors. It also involves the study of hardware design techniques to efficiently exploit the inherent parallelism in many of these problems, and the development of high performance arithmetic and logic units using FPGAs. The research at the design automation level involves the development of hardware compilation techniques to automatically generate dedicated computing architectures, with dynamically reconfigurable hardware/software components, from algorithm specifications in high-level languages such as Java.

Best 5 papers Mário Pereira Véstias and Horácio Claúdio Campos Neto, Router Design for Application Specific Networks-on-Chip on Reconfigurable Systems, FPL07 - International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Application, Aug. 2007, pp. 389-394, IEEE. Gonçalo Matos and Horácio Claúdio Campos Neto, On Reconfigurable Architectures for Efficient Matrix Inversion, International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Application (FPL), IEEE, Aug. 2006, pp. 369-374. Pedro Domingos, Fernando Silva, Horácio C. Neto, “An Efficient and Scalable Architecture for Neural Networks”, 2005 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, IEEE, Tampere, Finland, August 2005. Ricardo Ferreira, João Cardoso, Horácio C. Neto, “An Environment for Exploring Data-Driven Architectures”, 14th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Springer Verlag, Antwerp, Belgium, Setember 2004. João M. P. Cardoso, Horácio C. Neto, “Compilation for FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Hardware”, IEEE Design & Test of Computers Magazine, 20(2), 2003.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100366; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://esda.inesc-id.pt/~hcn/

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Name Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1995, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Networks and Multimedia Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Tiago Camilo, Pedro Melo, André Rodrigues, Luís Pedrosa, Jorge Sá Silva, Rui

Neves, Rui Rocha, Fernando Boavida; " Wireless Sensor Network Deployment " - Chapter in Handbook of Wireless Mesh & Sensor Networking , George Aggelou , McGraw Hill, 2008. Rocha, R. M.; A. Casaca; " Residential Oriented Customer Premises Network based on ATM principles " - Chapter in High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications , W. Effelsberg, O. Spaniol, A. Danthine, D. Ferrari , Kluwer Academic, Netherlands , 1996 . Antunes, N.; Pacheco, A.; Rocha, R. M.; “A Markov Renewal Based Model for Wireless Networks", Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 40 , No. 3 , pp. 247-281 , April , 2002 . Antunes, N.; Pacheco, A.; Rocha, R. M.; "An Integrated Traffic Model for Multimedia Wireless Networks ", Computer Networks & ISDN Systems , Vol. 38 , No. 1 , pp. 25-41 , January , 2002 . Antunes, N.; Pacheco, A.; Rocha, R. M.; " Traffic Modeling for Broadband Wireless Networks: The Highway Scenario ", Advances in Performance Analysis, Vol. 1 , No. 2 , pp. 109 - 136 , 2000 . Antunes, N.; Rocha, R. M.; Pinto, P.; Pacheco, A. " Impact of Next-Generation Wireless Networks Requirements on Teletraffic Modeling ", Wireless Networks Journal, Vol. 1 , No. 2-4 , pp. 706 - 715 , July , 1998.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 214233225; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.it.pt/person_detail_p.asp?ID=566

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Name Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Pedro Estrela and Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques and Mário Serafim

Nunes, Performance Evaluation of the TIMIP/sMIP Terminal Independent Mobile Architecture, Special Issue of HetNet Conference - Next Generation Internet: Performance Analysis and Applications, Wireless Personal , to appear. Kluwer Academy Publishers Ricardo Lopes Pereira and Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques and Rodrigo Rodrigues, On the Impact of P2P File Sharing Traffic Restrictions on User Perceived Performance, International Conference on Information Networking 2008 (ICOIN2008), Jan. 2008 António Carlos da Cruz Semedo Varela and Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques and Guilherme Arroz, An integrated approach to service management in the next generation Internet, EuroFGI Workshop in IP QoS and Traffic Control - QoS 2007, Dec. 2007 , IST Press Pedro Estrela and Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques and Mário Serafim Nunes, De-Triangulation Optimal solutions for mobility scenarios with asymmetric links, , Dec. 2007 , Springer Verlag Pedro Estrela and Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques and Mário Serafim Nunes, A Route Optimization Scheme for the eTIMIP micro-mobility protoco, IEEE 18 Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications- PIMRC, Sep. 2007

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Name António Manuel Raminhos Cordeiro Grilo Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Wireless and Mobile Networking, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor

Networks. Research Topics Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET)s: Wireless networks with the apability to self-organize

on-the-fly without the need for a communications infrastructure. MANET nodes can usually take the roles of endpoints and relay nodes simultaneously. MANETs are mainly useful to allow communications to be established in environments where a communications infrastruture (e.g. cellular networks) is not available or reliable. Examples of MANET applications are battlefield communications, disaster relief operations, rescue operations, cooperative work between meeting participants, sensor networks, etc. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)s: a particular instantiation of ad-hoc networks. In WSNs sensor nodes self-organize to allow the communications of sensing data towards special gateway nodes, which in turn communicate directly with the monitoring platforms. WSNs nodes are usually built with the objective of low-cost, and consequently bandwidth, memory, processing capacity and energy capacity are expected to be low, imposing stringent efficiency requirements on the algorithms and protocols implemented in the firmware. Although WSNs are static in most applications, mobility is also possible, placing even more requirements in terms of the communication protocols. Examples of WSN applications are bettlefield surveillance, homeland security surveillance, monitoring and safety in harsh industrial environments, environmental monitoring (including underwater), etc. This vast area of study involves more than simple technological aspects, also including human and organizational aspects. Examples of NCO applications are found in domains such as Military, Homeland Security/Defense, Civillian Safety and Rescue, Police, etc.

Best 5 papers [Grilo07a] A. Grilo, M. Macedo, P. Sebastião, M. Nunes, Electronic Protection and Routing Optimization of MANETs Operating in an Electronic Warfare Environment, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 5, Nº 7, September 2007. [Grilo07b] A. Grilo, M. Macedo, M. S. Nunes, An Energy-Efficient Low-Latency Multi-sink MAC Protocol for Alarm-driven Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the 3rd EuroNGI Workshop on Wireless and Mobility, Sitges/Barcelona, Spain, June 2006. In J. García, Llorenç Cerdà, Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 4396, ISBN-978-3-540-70968-8, pp. 87-101, 2007. [Grilo07c] J. Monteiro, R. Vaz, A. Grilo, M. Nunes, Rate Adaptation for Wireless Video Streaming Based on Error Statistics, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Special Issue on Media Streaming over Wireless and Mobile Networks, Inderscience Publishers, 2007(2), pp. 150-158, July 2007. [Grilo05] A. Grilo, M. Macedo, M. Nunes, IP QoS Support in IEEE802.11b WLANs, Computer Communications Magazine, Special Issue on 3G Wireless and Beyond for Computer Communication, Vol. 26, Nº 17, November 2003. (included in Science Direct TOP25 of the most downloaded alticles of Computer Communications, in October 2005) [Grilo03] A. Grilo, M. Macedo, M. Nunes, A Scheduling Algorithm for QoS Support in IEEE 802.11e Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, Nº 3, pp. 36-43, June 2003. (46 citations in Google Scholar)


- CMU-Portugal Cooperation Program «Building-up a Joint Information and Communication Technologies Institute», including the Joint CMU-IST PhD Program. - IST FP6 EuroFGI «Design and Engineering of the Future-Generation Internet» (European Network of Excellence). - IST FP6 UbiSeq&Sens «Ubiquitous Sensing and Security in the European Homeland» task leader of T1.4 Reliable and Efficient Transport.


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Name Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1996, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Control of Dynamic Systems (Embedded Electronic Systems) Keywords Adaptive control. Predictive control. Control Applications Research Topics Present: Control od Solar Furnaces; Control of Anesthesia

Past: To explore control principles for congestion control in IP networks. To develop control algorithms for temperature control in a biochip.

Best 5 papers Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, José Germano, P. Freitas, H. Ferreira and F. Cardoso. Modeling and Evaluation of Temperature Cross-Talk in a Biochip for DNA Detection, In CONTROLO 2006 7th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisboa, September 2006. Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, José Germano, P. Freitas, H. Ferreira and F. Cardoso. Temperature modeiling of a biochip for DNA analysis, In MED06 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control Automation, Acona - Italy, June 2006. Moises Simões Piedade, Leonel Sousa, Teresa Mendes de Almeida, José Germano, Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa, J. M. Lemos, Paulo P. Freitas, H. A. Ferreira and F. Cardoso. A New Hand-held Microsystem Architecture for Biological Analysis, IEEE Transactions on CIrcuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE, vol. 53, n. 11, pp. 2384-2395, November 2006. B. A. Costa, M. S. Serafim, J. M. Lemos. “An End-to-End Predictive Control Approach with Explicit Congestion Notification for Best Effort Traffic of IP Networks”, Control 2004, University of Bath, 6-9 Sept. UK. B. A. Costa, M. S. Serafim, J. M. Lemos. “An End-to-End Predictive Control Approach with Variable Time Horizon For Best Effort Traffic of IP Networks”, Controlo 2004, 6th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, June 7-9 2004, Algarve, Portugal.


- 2007 Project: SOLCONTROL, B. Andrade Costa, J. M. Lemos INESC-ID/IST, Portugal - Adaptive Temperature Control of a Solar Furnace. PROMES-Odeillo-France

Contacts Tel: (+351) 21 8417241; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://ramses.inesc.pt/

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Faculty: Computers

Name Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1999 Research Area Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Real-time and embedded systems, distributed systems, fault-tolerance, group

communication, QoS adaptability, sensor networks. Research Topics There is a proliferation of embedded systems with increasing requirements in what

concerns real-time and dependability. Devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, control systems with ``smart'' sensors and actuators, are examples of those embedded systems. Despite the technological evolution, in terms of processing power and chip integration, many of these devices still show limitations regarding available resources. The need to obtain devices that are small in size, with low power consumption, and low cost, implies that resources such as processing power and memory capacity can not grow in an uncontrolled way. On the other hand, the complexity and the requirements associated with the applications are ever increasing. Sometimes, besides strict temporal and dependability requirements, it is necessary to conciliate them with functional requirements that imply the utilization of generic use components (COTS). This coexistence makes real-time and dependability aspects much more difficult to solve. Some of the referred devices need to communicate among them, or provide remote access. That implies their interconnection by communication networks that in some cases will be wireless, where the bandwidth and real-time characteristics are, usually, weaker. The area of interconnected embedded systems, with requirements of real-time and fault-tolerance, is thus an area of utmost importance where there is still significant research work to do (both the aspects related to processing and communications). Of particular interest are the scenarios corresponding to dynamic environments, not completely synchronous (quasi-synchronous), where there is a need to adapt the offered qualities of service.

Best 5 papers Control of event handling timeliness in RTEMS. M. Coutinho, J. Rufino, and C. Almeida. In Proceedings of the 17th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems - PDCS 2005, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2005. Handling QoS in a Dynamic Real-Time Environment. Carlos Almeida. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - WORDS 2003. IEEE. Guadalajara, Mexico. January 2003. Dynamic QoS Adaptability in Quasi-Synchronous Systems. Carlos Almeida. Proceedings of the 14th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - PDCS2002. IASTED. Cambridge, USA. November 2002. Using light-weight groups to handle timing failures in quasi-synchronous systems. Carlos Almeida and Paulo Veríssimo. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. Madrid, Spain. December 1998. Fault-Tolerant Broadcasts in CAN. J. Rufino, P. Veríssimo, G. Arroz, C. Almeida and L. Rodrigues. Digest of Papers of the 28th IEEE International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems. Munich, Germany. June 1998.

Contacts Tel: (+ 351 218418397) (ext 2397); e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://comp.ist.utl.pt/cra

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Name Fernando Henrique Corte Real Mira da Silva Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Machine learning, networking Research Topics Machine learning, data mining, computer networks Best 5 papers Pedro Fernandes, Vasco Aleluia, Rui Rocha, Fernando M. Silva, Mobile Self-

Organized Service-Oriented Networks, ICT 2006 - 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, 1-5, Maio 2006. Teresa Vasques, Fernando M. Silva, Laércio Cruvínel,Quality of Service Policy Based Management over DiffServ Network, International Conference on Telecommunication -ICT, 117-202, Maio 2005 S.-I. Amari, F. Beltrame, J. G. Bjaalie, T. Dalkara, E. D. Schutter, G. F. Egan, N. H. Goddard, C. Gonzalez. S. Grillner, A. Herz, K.-P. Hoffman, I. Jaaskelainen, S. H. Koslow, S.-Y. Lee, L. Matthiessen, P. L. Miller, F. M. Silva, M. Novak, V. Ravindranath, R. Ritz, U. Ruotsalainen, V. Sebestra, S. Subramaniam, Y. Tang, A. W. Toga, S. Usui, J. V. Pelt, P. Verschure, D. Willshaw e A. Wrobel, Neuroinformatics: The integration of Shared Databases and Toold Towards Integrative Neuroscience, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, Vol 1, Number 2, December 2002 Frik Venter, M. Coetzee, M. Guedes, F. Silva, P. Forsyth, T. Maguire, M. Claus, P. Esters, T. Neufeuldt, D. Retzmann, Avanced AC/DC Real-Time and Computer Simulations, for the GMPC Cahora-Bassa Design Verification, International Colloquium on HVDC and FACTS Proceedings (Pag. 20 - 24), Johannesberg, South Africa, Setembro 1997 Fernando M. Silva, Luis B. Almeida, A Distributed Decorrelation Algorithm, in Neural Networks, Advances and Applications, E. Gellenbe, Ed., North-Holland, 1991

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100205; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: [email protected]

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Name João Paulo Baptista de Carvalho Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Technology Management & Innovation Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Soft Computing Keywords Computational Intelligence; Fuzzy Sets and Systems; Fuzzy Boolean Nets; Cognitive

Maps Research Topics His research interests are in the area of Computational Intelligence, which includes

topics such as Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation and hybrid systems that incorporate the best properties of previous techniques. Current research interests are centered around Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, and on Fuzzy Boolean nets. His research results have been applied in projects like Modelling and Simulation of Qualitative Dynamic Systems (economic systems, forest fire simulation, cognitive maps, etc), One-step ahead prediction using Fuzzy Boolean Nets (financial market, river flow prediction), Decision support systems, Intelligent Chess, etc.

Best 5 papers João Carvalho, José Tomé, Qualitative Optimization of Fuzzy Causal Rule Bases using Fuzzy Boolean Nets, /Fuzzy Sets and Systems/, 158(17), pp. 1931-1946, Sep. 2007, Elsevier João Carvalho, José Tomé, Qualitative Modelling of an Economic System using Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, FUZZ-IEEE 2004 - IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Jul. 2004. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps - Expressing Time in Qualitative System Dynamics, Proceedings of the FUZZ-IEEE2001, Sep. 2001. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps- Qualitative Systems Dynamics, 19th Int. Conference. of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society-NAFIPS, Aug. 2000. João Carvalho, José Tomé, Fuzzy Mechanisms For Causal Relations, Eighth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, IFSA’99, Aug. 1999.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100238; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: comp.ist.utl.pt/uke

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Faculty: Computers

Name Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1997, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies, Integrated Circuits and Systems Keywords Research Topics Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design and Design Auttomation Methodologies as main

research areas including subtopics such as Evolutionary Computation, Automatic Learning, Intelligent Optimization, System and Device Modeling, Circuit and System Synthesis, Layout Generation, High-Performance Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design and Emerging IC Technologies.

Best 5 papers N. Horta, “Analogue and Mixed-Signal Systems Topologies Exploration using Symbolic Methods”, Kluwer –Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 31, no. 2, 2002. M. Barros, N. Horta, "An Evolutionary Optimization Kernel with Adaptive Parameters applied to Analog Circuit Design", IEEE International Symp. on Signals, Circuits and Systems, 2005. G. Neves, N. Horta, "Design Automation Methodology for Analog IC Design Matching Designers Approach", IEEE International Symp. on Signals, Circuits and Systems, 2005. Xu Jingnan, J. Vital, N. Horta, "A SKILLTM-based library for retargetable embedded analog cores", Design Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2001. J. Franca, N. Horta, M. Pereira, J. Vital, R. Castro-Lopez, M. Delgado-Restituto, F. Fernandez, A. Rodriguez-Vazquez, J. Ramos, P. Santos, "RAPID-retargetability for reusability of appliCation-driven quadrature D/A interface block design", IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 99.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418093 (ext 2093); e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.it.pt/person_detail_p.asp?ID=426

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Name Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Signal Processing Systems Keywords Active Noise Control, Power Line Communications, Biochips, Digital Signal

Processing, Adaptive Systems Research Topics Active Noise Control techniques reduce acoustic noise and vibrations using

transducers (ex: speakers) that generate waves of anti-noise with phase opposite to the original noise, reducing the noise level in a given area. The anti-noise signal is generated using sophisticated digital signal processing techniques. Power line communication systems allow the creation of high speed telecommunication networks without the need to had new cables. However the power line channel was not thought for telecommunications use, and requires techniques that can eliminate the high levels of inter-symbolic interference and noise, like digital systems width OFDM or CDMA modulations and noise reduction. In the biochips field, new magnetic sensors arrays and signal processing techniques are being developed with the aim of producing new portable mini laboratories able to make different kinds of clinical analysis and DNA recognition.

Best 5 papers Lopes, P.A.C.; Piedade, M.S.; "Sensitivity to Secondary Path Modeling Errors of the Bandwidth Limited Modified FX-LMS Algorithm", Thirteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV13), Vienna, Austria, July 2006. Lopes, P.A.C.; Piedade, M.S.; "The behavior of the modified FX-LMS algorithm with secondary path modeling errors" Signal Processing Letters, IEEE ,Volume: 11 , Issue: 2, Feb. 2004 Pages:148 - 151 Lopes, P. A. C. and Piedade, M. S., Preventing noise amplification through anti-noise band limiting in multi-channel Active Noise Control systems, Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV12, Lisbon, Portugal, Jul. 2005. Paulo A. C. Lopes, Moisés S. Piedade, "Multichannel adaptive least squares lattice filters for active noise control" Digital Signal Processing and Its Applications Proceedings, Moscow, Russia, March 2003 Lopes, P.A.C.; Piedade, M.S., "Effects of secondary path modelling errors on the Modified FX-LMS algorithm for active noise control", Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 2001 IEEE International Conference on , Volume: 5 , 7-11 May 2001, Pages:3213 – 3216 vol.5 P. Lopes, M. Piedade, "A Kalman filter approach to Active Noise Control", EUSIPCO 2000 Proceedings, Tampere, Finland, September 2000.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100379; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: sips.inesc-id.pt/~pacl

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Name Paulo Rogério Barreiros de Almeida Pereira Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Computer Networks, Quality of Service, Differentiated Services, Network

Management. Research Topics The research interests cover the generic area of Computer Networks. The topics that

raise greater interest are Quality of Service in IP Networks, Differentiated Services, Traffic Management, Traffic Engineering, Network Management, Service Level Management and the use of Policies for Network Management. In a near future, the topics of Wireless and Sensor Networks will also be covered.

Best 5 papers João Neves, Paulo Pereira, Augusto Casaca. Service Differentiation with MPLS. Euro-NGI Workshop on Quality of Service and Traffic Control, France, 7-9 December 2005. Paulo Pereira. Service Level Agreement Enforcement for Differentiated Services. EuroNGI Joint Workshop on “Wireless and Mobility” and “New Trends in Network Architectures and Services”, Italy, 13-15 July 2005. Paulo Pereira, Pasquale Lepera, Augusto Casaca. DiffServ Traffic Management with MPLS. 5th Conference on Telecommunications, ConfTele'2005, Portugal, 6-8 April 2005. Paulo Pereira, Djamel Sadok, Paulo Pinto. Service Level Management of Differentiated Services Networks with Active Policies. III Conferência de Telecomunicações, ConfTele'2001, Portugal, 23-24 April 2001. Elionildo Menezes, Djamel Sadok, Judith Kelner, Paulo Pereira, Paulo Pinto. Service Management for Differentiated Services Networks. IEEE Workshop on IP-Oriented Operations & Management, IPOM'2000, Poland, 4-6 September 2000.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100345; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://mariel.inesc-id.pt/people/prbp.html

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Name Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2001 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies, Integrated Circuits and Systems Keywords Embedded systems, security in embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, data

fusion, analog and mixed-signal ic design. Research Topics Current research activities are in the area of embedded systems. The design of mixed

signal Integrated Circuits for embedded systems. Security en embedded systems. Applications of wireless sensors networks.

Best 5 papers R. F. Neves, J. E. Franca, S. K. Mitra, A. Petraglia, “Discrete-Time N-path Decimating Filters”, Proc. IEEE Trans. ISCAS’97, Vol-IV, pp. 2345-2348, Junho 1997. R. F. Neves, J. E. Franca “A Switched-Capacitor N-path Decimating Filter”, Proc. IEEE Trans. ISCAS’98, Vol.-I, pp. 472-475, Junho 1998. R. F. Neves, J. E. Franca, “Design of a wideband 37.5 MHz Switched-Capacitor Bandpass Filter with 100 MSample/s Input Sampling and Frequency Downconversion in 0.8 µm CMOS”, European Solid State Circuits Conference 2000, pp. 480-483, Setembro 2000. R. Luís, P. Cardoso, N. Horta, R. F. Neves, “Banner - Intelligent Management of Banner Advertisements on the WWW”, Proc. DATA MINING 2002, Italy, Setembro 2002. Nuno Ferreira Neves, João Antunes, Miguel Correia, Paulo Veríssimo, Rui Neves, “Using Attack Injection to Discover New Vulnerabilities”, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Philadelphia, USA, June 2006

Contacts Tel: (+351) 214233282; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://web.tagus.ist.utl.pt/~rui.neves/

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Name Rui Gustavo Nunes Pereira Crespo Teaching Unit: COMPUTERS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Communication Networks and Mobility Keywords Research Topics Computers Best 5 papers Feature Execution Trees and Interactions, Rui Gustavo Crespo and Luiggi Logrippo

and Tom Gray, The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, pp 1230-1236, 2002. Integrating the Semantics of Deterministic Multi-layered Communication Systems, Rui Gustavo Crespo, ENTCS 115, pp 53-61, 2004. An Adviser for Efficiently Resolve Email Feature Interactions, Miguel Carvalho, Rui Gustavo Crespo, International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2006. Distributed Resolution of Feature Interactions for Internet Applications, Rui Gustavo Crespo, Miguel Carvalho, Luigi Logrippo, Computer Networks - 51(2), pp. 382-397, 2007. Security Analysis of Feature Interactions, Rui Gustavo Crespo, 2nd International Conference on Internet Technologies & Applications, pp 45-53, 2007.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418398 (ext2398); (+351) 218417626 (ext1626); e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://comp.ist.utl.pt/rgc

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Name António Manuel da Cruz Serra Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Production Engineering and Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Instrumentation and Measurement Keywords Instrumentation and Measurement, Data acquisition, Data processing, Automatic

Measuring Systems, Biomedical Instrumentation. Research Topics Analog to Digital Converters Testing, Digital signal processing, Virtual

Instrumentation. Best 5 papers 1) A. Cruz Serra, H. Abreu Santos, "A one-dimensional, self-consistent, numerical

solution of Schrödinger and Poisson equations", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 70, n.5, pp. 2734-2738, Setembro, 1991. 2) R. Martins, A. Cruz Serra, "Automated ADC characterization using the histogram test stimulated by Gaussian noise", IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 48, n. 2, pp. 471-474, Abril, 1999. 3) P. Arpaia, A. Cruz Serra, P. Daponte, Conceição Líbano Monteiro, "A Critical Note to IEEE 1057-94 Standard on Hysteretic ADC Dynamic Testing ", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 50, n. 4, pp. 941- 948, Agosto de 2001. 4)F. Alegria, P. Arpaia, P. Daponte, A. Cruz Serra, "An ADC Histogram Test Based on Small-Amplitude Waves", Measurement, Elsevier Science B. V., vol. 31, n. 4, pp. 271-279, Junho de 2002. 5) Pedro Ramos, M. Fonseca da Silva, A. Cruz Serra, "Low frequency impedance measurement using sine-fitting", Measurement, Elsevier Science B. V., vol. 35, n. 1, pp.89-96, Janeiro de 2004.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418490; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.it.pt/person_detail_p.asp?id=503

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Name João Paulo Cacho Teixeira Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1982, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Micro and nanoelectronics design and test, ICT Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Quality, Test and Co-Design of HW/SW Systems Keywords Design, manufacturing and test of microelectronic systems Research Topics Scientific and technical interests include the analysis, specification, design,

verification, production, test and diagnosis of hardware/software systems, which use microelectronics as supporting technologies. Emphasis is given to the design and test of highly dependable digital, analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems, implemented in CMOS or CMOS-compatible nanometer technologies, and to the development of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools.

Best 5 papers M.B. Santos, J.P. Teixeira, “Functional-oriented mask-based built-in self-test”, IET Computers and Digital Techniques, vol. 1, Nº. 5, pp. 491–498, 2007. E. Albuquerque, P.Bento, C. Leong, F. Gonçalves, J. Nobre, J. Rego, P. Relvas, P. Lousã, P. Rodrigues, I.C. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, L. Silva, M. M. Silva, A. Trindade, J. Varela, “The Clear-PEM Electronics System”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, nº. 5, pp. 2704-2711, 2006. P. Bento, F. Gonçalves, C. Leong, P. Lousã, J. Nobre, J.C. Silva, L. Silva, J. Rego, P. Relvas, P. Rodrigues, I.C. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, A. Trindade, J. Varela, “Performance Simulation Studies of the Clear-PEM DAQ/Trigger System”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, nº. 4, pp. 2102-2111, August 2006. M.C. Abreu, et al., “Design and Evaluation of the Clear-PEM Scanner for Positron Emission Mammography”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, Nº. 1, pp. 71-76, February 2006. D. Barros Júnior, M. Rodriguez-Irago, M.B. Santos, I.C. Teixeira, F. Vargas, J.P. Teixeira, “Fault Modeling and Simulation of Power Supply Voltage Transients in Digital Systems on a Chip”, Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Application (JETTA), vol.21, pp. 349-363, Kluwer Academic Publishers, August, 2005.


- Philips / NXP, Infineon, Temento, etc. (INESC-ID European projects) - TIMA, Polito, INPG, UPC, CNM, etc. - Tecmic, INOV

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100254; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.inesc-id.pt/intranet/laboratoriogrupo/view/view_group.php?CC=IE04

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Name Moisés Simões Piedade Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Signal Processing Systems Keywords signal and image processing Research Topics Image and Video Processing. Signal Processing for Telecommunications. Adaptive

Signal Processing. Noise Cancelling. Medical and Biological Applications Best 5 papers P.A.C. Lopes, M.S. Piedade, "The behavior of the modified FX-LMS algorithm with

secondary path modeling errors" Signal Processing Letters, IEEE ,Volume: 11 , Issue: 2, Feb. 2004 Pages:148 - 151 Moisés Piedade, José Gerald, Leonel Sousa, Gonçalo Tavares, Pedro Tomás, Visual Neuroprosthesis: A Non Invasive System for Stimulating the Cortex, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 2648-2662, December 2005. Gonçalo N. Tavares, Luis M. Tavares, Moisés S. Piedade, On the Miller-Chang Lower Bound for NDA Carrier Phase Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 1867-1871, November 2004. Gonçalo N. Tavares, Luis M. Tavares, Moisés S. Piedade, Improved Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for Phase and Frequency Estimation With M-PSK Signals, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 2083-2087, December 2001. P.A.C. Lopes, M.S. Piedade, "Effects of secondary path modelling errors on the Modified FX-LMS algorithm for active noise control", Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 2001 IEEE International Conference on , Volume: 5 , 7-11 May 2001, Pages:3213 – 3216 vol.5


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Name Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1988, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Instrumentation and Measurement Keywords Instrumentation, Measurement, Metrology, Quality, Environmental Measurement,

Sensors, Actuators, Data acquisition, Data processing, Automated Measuring Systems, Telemetry, Virtual Instrumentation.

Research Topics Sensors and actuators. Environmental Measurements. Biomedical instrumentation. Telemetry. Automated measuring systems. Digital signal processing. Virtual instrumentation

Best 5 papers P. M. B. Silva Girão; “Controllers-Electronic”; Process Control and Optimization, Volume II, Instrument Engineers’ Handbook, pp. 478-487, Editor: Béla Lipták; CRC – Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA, 2006. J.M. Dias Pereira, O. Postolache, P.M. Girão; "Using a Dual-Channel FDC Device and ANN Techniques to Improve Measurements Accuracy", Sensors & Transducers Magazine, Vol. 62, No. 12, pp. 462 - 472, December 2005. O. Postolache, P.M. Girão, J. M. Dias Pereira, H. G. Ramos; "Self-organizing Maps Application in a Remote Water Quality Monitoring System", IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement , Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 322 - 329, February 2005. F. Alegria, P.M. Girão, V. Haasz, A.C. Serra; "Performance of Data Acquisition Systems from User’s Point of View", IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement , Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 907 - 914, August 2004. P.M. Girão, O. Postolache, J. M. Dias Pereira; "An Overview and a Contribution to the Optical Measurement of Linear Displacement", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 322 - 331, December 2001.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418488/ (+351) 218417289; e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]; web page: http://web.ist.utl.pt/psgirao/

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Name Artur Fernando Delgado Lopes Ribeiro Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Ramos, P.M.; Dias Pereira, J. M.; Ramos, H. G.; Ribeiro, A. L.; " A four terminal

water quality monitoring conductivity sensor ", IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement , Vol. 57 , No. 3 , pp. 577 - 583 , March , 2008. Ribeiro, A. L.; " Axial and transverse forces in an axisymmetric suspension using permanent magnets ", Physica B , Vol. 384 , No. 2006 , pp. 256 - 258 , March , 2006. Ribeiro, A. L.; " Two dimensional hysteresis modelling and loss evaluation in magnetic circuits ", Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials , Vol. 226-230 , No. Part 2 , pp. 1260 - 1261 , May , 2001. Ribeiro, A. L.; V. Machado; " Transients Computation in Electrical Circuits in the Presence of Ferromagnetic Hysteresis ", Journal of Applied Physics , Vol. 87 , No. 9 , pp. 6549 - 6551 , May , 2000. Ribeiro, A. L.; " 2D Preisach-Type Hysteresis Modeling of Electrotechnical Steel Laminates ", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics , Vol. 34 , No. 5 , pp. 3036 - 3039 , September , 1998.

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Name Helena Maria dos Santos Geirinhas Ramos Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1995, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Keywords Instrumentation and measurements, PC- based Instrumentation, Transducers, ADC

Testing, Automated Measurement Systems, Interfaces, Ferromagnetic Materials Characterization.

Research Topics The research activity has been focused in the ferromagnetic materials study, in the instrumentation and electrical measurements, in the automated measurements systems, in the ADC testing, in the transducers and in the communication interfaces. She developed work in the magnetic hysteresis modelling, in the signal processing and in virtual instrumentation solutions, in order to support her research activities. She has already participated and she has been leader of research projects in the following areas: ADC testing, environment monitoring and civil structures instrumentation.

Best 5 papers H. Geirinhas Ramos, P. Silva Girão "Measurement of Low Level DC Magnetic Fields Using a Synchronous Demodulation Technique", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 42, n.2, pp.544-546, April 1993. Helena Ramos, M. Pereira, V. Viegas, O. Postolache, P. Girão “A Virtual Instrument to Test Smart Transducer Interface Modules (STIMs)”. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 53, n.4, pp.1232-1239, August 2004. Postolache, P. Girão, M. Pereira, and Helena Ramos “Self Organizing Maps Application in a Remote Water Quality Monitoring System”. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 54, n.1, pp.322-329, Fev. 2005. José L. Mariano, Helena Geirinhas Ramos “Validity of Widrow’s Model for Sinusoidal Signals”, Measurement Journal da editora Elsevier Science B. V., vol. 39, pp.198-203, 2006. Pedro M. B. Silva Girão, António M. Cruz Serra, Helena M. Geirinhas Ramos "Electric Distortion Measurement", Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engireering, Vol. 23, pp.286-293, J. Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 1999.


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Name Isabel Maria Silva Nobre Parreira Cacho Teixeira Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1984, January. IST, TU Lisbon. Research Area System design and test, ICT. Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Quality, Test and Co-Design of HW/SW Systems Keywords GALS Systems, Network on Chip, Design Methodology, Functional Testability and

Synchronism. Medical imaging systems. Research Topics Design and test of highly Complex Systems. Methodologies for Functional and

structural Built in Self Test. Study of efficient memory management and communication structures for FPGA technology. Bus based communication versus Network on Chip platforms. Architectural Design and implementation of high resolution Medical imaging systems.

Best 5 papers J. Semiao, J. Freijedo, M.Moraes, F.Vargas, M.B. Santos, I.C. Teixeira, J.J. Rodriguez Andina, J.P. Teixeira, “System on Chip Signal Integrity Enhancement Based on Dynamic Clock Management”, Proc. 6th. International Workshop on Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits (EMC Compo), Torino, Italy, Nov. 2007. E. Albuquerque, P.Bento, C. Leong, F. Gonçalves, J. Nobre, J. Rego, P. Relvas, P. Lousã, P. Rodrigues, I.C. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, L. Silva, M. M. Silva, A. Trindade, J. Varela, “The Clear-PEM Electronics System”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, nº. 5, pp. 2704-2711, 2006. P. Bento, F. Gonçalves, C. Leong, P. Lousã, J. Nobre, J.C. Silva, L. Silva, J. Rego, P. Relvas, P. Rodrigues, I.C. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, A. Trindade, J. Varela, “Performance Simulation Studies of the Clear-PEM DAQ/Trigger System”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, nº. 4, pp. 2102-2111, August 2006. M.C. Abreu, et al., “Design and Evaluation of the Clear-PEM Scanner for Positron Emission Mammography”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, Nº. 1, pp. 71-76, February 2006. D. Barros Júnior, M. Rodriguez-Irago, M.B. Santos, I.C. Teixeira, F. Vargas, J.P. Teixeira, “Fault Modeling and Simulation of Power Supply Voltage Transients in Digital Systems on a Chip”, Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Application (JETTA), vol.21, pp. 349-363, Kluwer Academic Publishers, August, 2005.


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Name João José Lopes da Costa Freire Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1984 Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Microwave Electronics Group of the Research Line Radio Microwaves and

Millimeter waves of the Scientific Area of Wireless communications Keywords Microwaves, Radio-frequency, Millimeterwave, Wireless communications,

Transceivers, Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs), Semiconductor Devices.

Research Topics Research activities on modelling semiconductor devices for computer aided design of linear and non-linear Radio, Microwave and Millimeterwave circuits, and test and integration of silicon and GaAs Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) on transceivers for wireless communication systems. Design, test and integration of monolithic (MMICs) and hybrid (MICs) circuits for millimeterwave mobile (3rd and 4th generation) and satellite systems.

Best 5 papers Jorge Torres, J. Costa Freire, "Monolithic SPST Switch for L Band", IEEE - transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, pp. 51-56, January 2002. João Vaz, M. João Rosário and J. Costa Freire, "Low Cost Si MMICs Design for RF Front Ends", invited paper, APMC - Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, pp. 494 -495, New Delhi, India, December 2004. Fernando Fortes, J. Costa Freire, Domine Leenaerts, Reza Mahmoudi, Arthur van Roermund, "A 28.5GHz Monolithic Cascode LNA with 70GHz fT SiGe HBTs", European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Grenoble, France, September 2005. Guilherme St´Aubyn, João Vaz, J. Costa Freire; "Voltage Controlled Phase Shifters on CMOS Technology ", Proc. Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - APMC, Yokohama , Japan , Vol. 1 , pp. 12 - 16 , December, 2006. Jorge Torres, J. Costa Freire, " Broad band Amplifier up to 30GHz with 0.25um SiGe technology ", Proc International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference - IMOC , Salvador , Brazil , Vol. I , pp. 166 - 169 , October , 2007.


- University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

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Name Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1987, University of Rhode Island,USA Research Area Optical Communications Research Unit IT Research Group Electronic and Optoelectronic Components Keywords Semiconductor materials, optoelectronic devices, photodetectors, semiconductor

lasers. Research Topics My main reseach interests are in the area of semiconductor materials and devices,

namely optoelectronic devices. Some work has been done on the transport properties of amorphous and policrystalline materials and related structures. Regarding the optoelectronic devices, the research has been centered on the analysis and modelling of the dynamic response of MQW lasers and photodetectors, such as PIN and APD.

Best 5 papers Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira, "Modeling the frequency response of p+InP/n- InGaAs/n+InP photodiodes with an arbitrary electric field profile", COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 26, nº 4, pp. 1114- 1122, 2007. J. M. Torres Pereira, "Frequency Response Simulation Analysis of InGaAs/InP SAM-APD Devices", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 48, nº 4, pp. 712- 717, 2006. Jorge M. T. Pereira, "Large-Signal Modulation of MQW Long-Wavelength Lasers", COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 21, nº 1, pp. 138-146, 2002. Jorge M. T. Pereira, "Self-heating effects at CW operation of MQW long- wavelength lasers", Materials Science and Engineering B74, pp. 84-88, 2000. Jorge M. T. Pereira, P. K. Banerjee, S. S. Mitra, "n and p substitutional doping of RF-sputtered a-SiC:H", Thin Solid Films 127, 337-350, 1985.

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Name Leonel Augusto Pires Seabra de Sousa Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1996, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Signal Processing Systems Keywords High Performance Computing, Multimedia Signal Processing, Electronics for Lab-

on-Chip Research Topics His research interests include High Performance Computing, Micro-architectures for

General Purpose and Specialized Processors, and Multimedia Systems. During the last ten years he has been investigating efficient algorithms and architectures to develop efficient real-time processing systems.

Best 5 papers Oliver Sinnen, Leonel Sousa, Frode Eika Sandnes, Towards a Realistic Task Scheduling Model, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, n. 3, 263-275, March 2006. Moises Piedade, José Gerald, Leonel Sousa, Gonçalo Tavares, Pedro Tomás, Visual Neuroprosthesis: A Non-Invasive System for Stimulating the Cortex, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular papers, IEEE, vol. 6, n. 12, 2648-2662, December 2005. Leonel Sousa, Ricardo Chaves, A Universal Architecture for Designing Efficient Modulo 2^n+1 Multipliers , IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, IEEE, vol. 52, n. 6, 1166- 1178, June 2005. Oliver Sinnen, Leonel Sousa, Communication Contention in Task Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE, vol. 16, n. 6, 503-515, June 2005. Leonel Sousa, Oliver Sinnen, On Task Schedulin Accuracy: Evaluation Methodology and Results, The Journal of Supercomputing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, n. 27, pages 177-194, February 2004.

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Name Carlos Francisco Beltran Tavares de Almeida Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1986 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Packaging, Measurement and Test Keywords Research fields: design and test of electronic systems, interconnection and packaging

of electronic systems; simulation and test of electronic circuits. Research Topics The actual research field is focused in the development of new algorithms and

techniques for circuit simulation, fault modelling and simulation, and test generation. The research field includes also the study and development of high density interconnection techniques for electronic systems and devices. Carlos Beltrán Almeida is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers of IST, Technical University of Lisboa. A significant part of his academic activities consists in the lecture of disciplines in the area of Electronics, e.g., “Simulation and Test of Electronic Systems”, “Digital Microelectronics” or “General Electronics”, targeting students of several different engineering courses (LEEC, LEE, LERCI).

Best 5 papers J.P. Teixeira, I.C. Teixeira, C.F.B. Almeida, F.M. Gonçalves, J. Gonçalves, "A Methodology for Testability Enhancement at Layout Level", JETTA --Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Application, vol. 1, nº 4, pp. 289-297 , 1991 J. Soares Augusto, C. Beltrán Almeida, “Circuit Equations for Fast Fault Simulation and Diagnosis of Linear Circuits”, ICECS (5th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems), 125-128, IST, Lisboa, Portugal, September, 1998. Anton Velinov Chichkov, Carlos Beltrán Almeida, “A Tool for Mapping a C Description into a Hardware Configuration using VHDL at RTL”, XIII Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems Conference, Madrid, Spain, November, 1998. Nuno Cardoso, Carlos Beltrán Almeida, José Carlos da Silva, "A System Level Boundary Scan Controller Board for VME Applications", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Journal of Electronic Testing and Applications, Vol 17, 3, 299-310, June 2001, Special Issue on the IEEE European Test Workshop 2000 - Challenges in Deep Sub-Micron Testing. Tiago Veiga, C. F. B. Almeida, J. Soares Augusto, “Efficient Analog Fault Simulation in AC Circuits”, European Test Symposium (ETS2005), Tallinn, Estonia, May, 2005.

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Name Maria Helena da Costa Matos Sarmento Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1990, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group ESDA - Electronic Systems Design and Automation Keywords Wireless communications, Ultra Wide Band, RFID, transceivers Research Topics Research interests include electronic design at system level, for wireless

communications (base band), using reconfigurable computing. Experimental investigation of these technologies is based on prototype development. From initial work on DECT and Bluetooth, current interests are on ultra wide band technologies for data communication. FPGA capabilities for UWB very high data rates are now being addressed, with the development of base band blocks for DS-UWB and MB-OFDM

Best 5 papers Rui Borges and Horácio Neto and Helena Sarmento, Implementing a Viterbi decoder in a FPGA for a UWB MB-OFDM receiver, XXII Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Nov 2007 Nuno Rodrigues, Horácio Neto and Helena Sarmento, A OFDM module for a MB-OFDM receiver, International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era, Sep. 2007 , pp. 25-29 , IEEE Yijun Zhao and Maria Helena da Costa Matos Sarmento, An FPGA-based DS-UWB transmitter, Jornadas sobre Sistemas reconfiguráveis, Feb. 2006 Ruben Cabral and Samuel Escarigo and Horácio Neto and Helena Sarmento, Implementation of a DAB Receiver with FPGA Technology, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Jan. 2006 Helena Sarmento, Ultra Wide Band: a wireless technology for indoor communication, 5th Conference on Telecommunications, Apr. 2005 A. Muchaxo, A. Sousa, N. Pereira and H. Sarmento, Wireless Data Vommunications using DECT air interface, ACM Computer communication Review, April 1999.

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Name Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1988, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Optical Communications Research Unit IT Research Group Electronic and Optoelectronic Components Keywords Semicondutor materials and devices. Optoelectronic devices. Semiconductor

LASERs. Research Topics My work concerns the study of DFB laser structures to operate under high speed

direct modulation. In order to ensure a stable single longitudinal mode operation, a comparative analysis for several modified DFB laser structures has been carried out using matricial techniques, namely the transfer matrix method (TMM). The simulation models are used to obtain the main laser figures of merit, such as the laser discrimination, especially important to achieve single mode oscillation. Above-threshold calculations are carried out taken into account the hole-burning effects.

Best 5 papers C. Ferreira Fernandes, “Transfer Matrix Modelling in DFB Lasers”, Microelectronic Engineering, 43-44, Elsevier Science, pp. 553-560, 1998 C. Ferreira Fernandes, “Single Longitudinal Mode Operation in Phase-Shifted DFB Laser Diodes”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 171-�177, 1999 C. Ferreira Fernandes, “Hole-Burning Corrections in the Stationary Analysis of DFB Laser Diodes”, Materials Science & Engineering B - Solid State Materials for Advanced Technology, Vol. B74/1-3, pp. 75-79, May 2000 C. Ferreira Fernandes, “Impact of Structural Changes in the Corrugation on the DFB Laser Characteristics”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 352-355, 2000 C. Ferreira Fernandes, “Single-Mode Yield in DFB Laser Diodes with Reflecting Facets”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 48, No.2, pp. 205-209, 2006.

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Name Ana Teresa Correia de Freitas Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group KDBIO – Knowledge Discovery and Bioinformatics Keywords Algorithms, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology Research Topics My current research interests are focused on the areas of Computational Biology,

Systems Biology, Data Integration for Systems Biology, Applications of Algorithms to Biological Problems, Sequence Processing Algorithms and Applications in Genetics and Medical Diagnosis.My main objective is the development of algorithms and methodologies that can be used to unveil the mechanisms ensuring the coordinate transcriptional regulation of genes.

Best 5 papers Casimiro A and Vinga S and Freitas AT and Oliveira AL, An analysis of the positional distribution of DNA motifs in promoter regions and its biological relevance, BMC Bioinfo., 9(89), Feb. 2008. Monteiro PT and Mendes ND and Teixeira MC and Orey S and Tenreiro S and Mira N and Pais H and Francisco AP and Carvalho AM and Lourenço A and Sá-Correia I and Oliveira AL and Freitas AT, YEASTRACT-DISCOVERER: new tools to improve the analysis of transcriptional regulatory associations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, NAR, 36(), pp. D132-D136, Jan. 2008. Mendes ND and Casimiro A and Santos PM and Sá-Correia I and Oliveira AL and Freitas AT, MUSA: a parameter free algorithm for the identification of biologically significant motifs, Bioinformatics, 22(24), pp. 2996-3002, Dec. 2006. Carvalho AM and Freitas AT and Oliveira AL and Sagot M-F, An Efficient Algorithm for the Identification of Structured Motifs in DNA Promoter Sequences, IEEE Trans. Comp. Biology and Bioinformatics, 3(2), pp. 126-140, Apr. 2006. Teixeira MC and Monteiro P and Jain P and Tenreiro S and Fernandes AR and Mira NP and Alenquer M and Freitas AT and Oliveira AL and Sá-Correia I, The YEASTRACT database: a tool for the analysis of transcription regulatory associations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, NAR, 34(), pp. D446-D451, Jan. 2006.


- Claude Bernard University Lyon I, France - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

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Name António Carlos de Campos Simões Baptista Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1999, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices Keywords Laser, optical properties of semiconductors, hetero-structures, measurements. Research Topics Nonlinear optical properties of semiconductors, opto-electronic semiconductor

devices, lasers, laser and optical measurements. Best 5 papers António Baptista, H. Abreu Santos, "Excitonic Eigenfunctions in a Fractional

Dimensional Space"", Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol.94, pp.214-217, 2002. António Baptista, H. Abreu Santos, "Electron-hole Pairs Binding Energies in Quantum Wires and Qunatum Dots", Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol.74, Nº1-3, pp.259-262, 2000. António Baptista, H. Abreu Santos, "Calculation of Exciton Binding Energies in a Fractional Dimensional Space", Microelectronic Engineering, Vol. 43-44, pp.481-487, 1998. António Baptista, H. Abreu Santos, “ Modelling a and Dn in strained InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells”, Proceedings of the twentieth International Symposium on Gallium Arsenide and Related Compounds,Institute of Physics Conference Series Number 136, pg.421-426,1993. J.L.Azevedo, G. Neves, A. Baptista, H. Abreu Santos,"Wave Propagation Modes in Transferred Electron Devices", IEE Proc., Part I, Solid State and Electron Devices, Vol. 134,Nº2,pp.57-62, 1987.


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Name Fernando Manuel Duarte Gonçalves Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1999 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Software/Configware Algorithms Keywords Reconfigurable systems, Microelectronics Research Topics His research interests include (1) the development of reconfigurable architectures for

acceleration of logic simulation and (2) the design of ASICs for medical imaging systems. For more than ten years, his research interest was focused in VLSI testing, specially, design-for-testability techniques. Hence, he has a considerable expertise in this topic, which is extremely valuable in his current projects.

Best 5 papers Maria C. Abreu, João D. Aguiar, Fernando G. Almeida, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Bento, Bruno Carriço, Miguel Ferreira, Nuno C. Ferreira, Fernando Gonçalves, Carlos Leong, Filipe Lopes, Pedro Lousã, Mónica V. Martins, Nuno Matela, Pedro R. Mendes, Rui Moura, João Nobre, Nuno Oliveira, Catarina Ortigão, Luís Peralta, Rui Pereira, Joel Rego, Rui Ribeiro, Pedro Rodrigues, José Sampaio, Ana I. Santos, Luís Silva, José C. Silva, Patrick Sousa, Isabel C. Teixeira, João P. Teixeira, Andreia Trindade and João Varela, "Design and Evaluation of the Clear-PEM Scanner for Positron Emission Mammography", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 71-77, February 2006. F.M. Gonçalves, M.B. Santos, I.C. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, "Design and Test of a Certifiable ASIC for a Safety-Critical Gas Burner Control System", Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 285-294, Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 2002. M.B. Santos, F.M. Gonçalves, I.C. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, "RTL Design Validation, DFT and Test Pattern Generation for High Defects Coverage", Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 179-187, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2002. Victor Martins, José T. de Sousa, Fernando Gonçalves, "A Low-Cost Scalable Pipelined Reconfigurable Architecture for Simulation of Digital Circuits", Proc. International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, Tampere, Finland, August 2005. José T. de Sousa, Fernando M. Gonçalves, Nuno Barreiro, João Moura, "DARP - a Digital Audio Reconfigurable Processor", Proc. International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, pp. 556-566, Montpellier, France, September 2002.


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Name Francisco André Corrêa Alegria Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies, Instrumentation and Measurement Keywords Analog to digital converter, Test, Instrumentation, Measurements, Radiofrequency,

Uncertainty, Histogram Test Method, Sinefitting, Automatic test systems, Electronics, Noise, Jitter.

Research Topics Characterization of analog to digital converters (ADCs) using different methods (histogram, sinefitting, DFT) and the of the estimates. Study of the influence of additive noise, phase noise, uncertainty on the sampling instant, jitter and frequency error. Operation and use of measuring instruments. Measurement tecniques in teh analog and digital domains. Calibration. Measurements in radiofrequency.

Best 5 papers F. Corrêa Alegria, A. Cruz Serra, "Automatic Calibration of Analog and Digital Measuring Instruments Using Computer Vision", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 49, n. 1, pp. 94-99, February 2000. F. Corrêa Alegria, P. Arpaia, P. Daponte, A. Cruz Serra,"An ADC Histogram Test Based on Small-Amplitude Waves", Measurement, Elsevier Science, vol. 31, n. 4, pp. 271-279, June 2002. F. Corrêa Alegria, A. Cruz Serra, "Variance of the Cumulative Histogram of ADCs due to Frequency Errors", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 52, n. 1, pp. 69-74, February 2003. F. Corrêa Alegria, A. Cruz Serra, "Uncertainty of ADC Random Noise Estimates Obtained With the IEEE 1057 Standard Test", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 54. nº 1, pp. 110-116, February 2005. F. Corrêa Alegria, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, A. Cruz Serra, D. Petri, "Effective ADC Linearity Testing Using Sinewaves", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 52. nº 7, pp. 1267-1275, July 2005.

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Name Gonçalo Nuno Gomes Tavares Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Signal Processing Systems Keywords Statistical signal processing, Synchronization, Lower bounds Research Topics His main research interests include system architecture for signal processing,

statistical signal processing, spread-spectrum systems, synchronization issues in digital communication and algorithms for mobile channel simulation. He is also interested in the investigation of fundamental lower bounds on the MSE or variance of synchronization parameter estimates and its application in digital communications over mobile fading channels.

Best 5 papers Gonçalo N. Tavares, Luis M. Tavares, The True Cramér-Rao Lower Bound for Data-Aided Carrier-Phase-Independent Time Delay Estimation From Linearly Modulated Waveforms, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 128-140, January 2006. Moisés Piedade, José Gerald, Leonel Sousa, Gonçalo Tavares, Pedro Tomás, Visual Neuroprosthesis: A Non Invasive System for Stimulating the Cortex, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 2648-2662, December 2005. Gonçalo N. Tavares, Luis M. Tavares, Moisés S. Piedade, On the Miller-Chang Lower Bound for NDA Carrier Phase Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 1867-1871, November 2004. Gonçalo N. Tavares, Luis M. Tavares, Moisés S. Piedade, Improved Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for Phase and Frequency Estimation With M-PSK Signals, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 2083-2087, December 2001. José Gerald, Gonçalo Tavares, Moisés Piedade, Elíseo Varela, Ricardo Ribeiro, RF-LINK for Cortical Neuroprosthesis, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), Cobe, Japan, May 2005.


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Name João Manuel Torres Caldinhas Simões Vaz Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1998, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords VCO, Power amplifier, CMOS, SiGe, spiral inductor, active inductor, non-linear,

radio-frequency. Research Topics Monolithic integrated LC voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) with differential and

quadrature outputs. Quadrature VCOs/Mixers on 0.35um CMOS technology. Frequency synthesizers for frequencies up to 6GHz on CMOS technology. Power amplifiers for WLAN applications on 0.35um CMOS technology. Spiral inductors modeling and electromagnetic simulation on SiGe and CMOS technologies. Electric models were obtained up to 6GHz. Poly capacitors and resistors modeling. Electric models were obtained up to 6GHz. Grounded and floating active inductors for 5GHz on SiGe 0.35um process. These inductors will be used in active filters for wireless applications. Aspects concerning high frequency on-wafer measurements up to 6GHz with silicon substrates. The measurements included s-parameters, noise figure, output power and distortion, phase noise.

Best 5 papers M. Gabriela Marques, K. W. Tam, J. Caldinhas Vaz, J. C. Freire, “MMIC Lumped and Transversal Filter with LC Tuned Amplifiers”, Microwave Engineering Europe, November 1999. Guilherme Mascarenhas, J. Caldinhas Vaz, J. Costa Freire, "CMOS active inductors for L Band", Proc. APMC 2000, Sydney, Australia, Dec 2000 J. Caldinhas Vaz and J. Costa Freire, "Millimeter Wave Monolithic Power Amplifier for Mobile Broadband System", IEEE - Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Special Issue on Advances in RF/MW Power Amplifiers, June 2001. M. João Rosário, Fabrice Le-Strat, Pierre-Frank Alléaume, J. Caldinhas Vaz, Joerg Schroth, Thomas Müller, J. Costa Freire, “Low Cost LTCC Filters for a 30GHz Satellite System”, Proceedings of the 33rd European Microwave Conference, Munich, October 2003. J. Caldinhas Vaz, M. João Rosário, J. Costa Freire, "Low Cost Si MMIC Design for RF Front Ends", Invicted paper, Proc. APMC 2004, New Delhi, India, Dec 2004.


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Name Jorge Manuel dos Santos Ribeiro Fernandes Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2000, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Analogue and Mixed-mode Circuits Keywords RF and Mixed-Signal Microelectronics Research Topics My current research interests are in two main areas: Radio Frequency (RF) integrated

circuits and analog-to-digital (ADC) converters. In the RF topic I am interested in transceiver designs for narrowband and Ultra Wide Band, and for the ADC topic I am interested on full-flash and Folding architectures. At circuit level I am interested in the building blocks of such circuits. On these topics I have supervised 2 Ph.D thesis and have three ongoing.

Best 5 papers [1]. J. Fernandes, H. Gonçalves, L. Oliveira, and M. Silva, “A Pulse Generator for UWB-IR Based on a Relaxation Oscillator", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 239-243, March 2008 [2]. J.Fernandes, M.Kouwenhoven, C. van den Bos, Luís Oliveira, and C.Verhoeven, “The Effect of Mismatches and Delay on the Quadrature Error of a Cross-Coupled Relaxation Oscillator", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 2592-2598, Dec. 2007 [3]. M. Martins, J.Fernandes and M. Medeiros Silva, “Dual-Band CMOS Low Noise Amplifier without Switches and with Continuously Adjustable Gain", Electronics Letters, Vol. 43, pp. 920 - 921, Aug 2007 [4]. P.Pereira, J. Fernandes and M.Silva, “Error Correcting Encoders for Parallel-Type ADCS", Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 45/1, pp. 219-230, Dec. 2005 [5]. J.Fernandes, M.Kouwenhoven, C. van den Bos, K. van Hartingsveldt, and C.Verhoeven, “A 5.8-GHz Quadrature Cross-Coupled Oscillator”, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 35/1, pp. 59-64, Apr. 2003.


- Ongoing cooperation with TU Delft, the Netherlands, with the “Electronics Research Laboratory” in RF circuits since 2000. - Ongoing cooperation with “Universidade Federal de Santa Maria”, Brazil, with the “Grupo de Microeletrônica (GMICRO)”, since 2006. - Ongoing cooperation with “Universidade Nova de Lisboa”, Portugal, with Uninova, since 2004 - Starting cooperation with Columbia University, New York, USA, with the “Analog & RF IC Design Research” group in UWB RF circuits. -Cooperation with Integration Portugal Lda, (Integration Associates Inc. California, USA) in RF and Analog circuits.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100327; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.inesc-id.pt

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Name José António Beltran Gerald Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Signal Processing Systems (SIPS) Keywords Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Ultra-Wideband (UWB),

Adaptive Filtering, Bioengineering. Research Topics The author is interested and has been working in signal processing for

telecommunications. More specifically, Ultra-Wideband (UWB) transceivers and Power Line communications (PLC) using OFDM. Transmission above 1 Mbps over the power lines require more complex OFDM schemes, as for instance, pre-coding, adaptive techniques, elaborated error correction codes, and so on. The adaptive OFDM is one of the author research interests presently. Also, the author keeps on working in bioengineering applications.

Best 5 papers M. Piedade, J. Gerald, L. Sousa, G. Tavares, P. Tomás, “Visual Neuroprosthesis: A Non Invasive System for Stimulating the Cortex”, IEEE Trans. on CAS I – Regular papers, 6(12), pp. 2648-2662, December 2005. J. Inácio, J. A. Gerald, M. D. Ortigueira, “New PN Even Balanced Sequences for Spread Spectrum Systems,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless communications and Networking – Regular Issue, No. 3, pp. 447-458, August 2005. J. Gerald, G. Tavares, M. Piedade, E. Varela, R. Ribeiro, “RF Link for Cortical Neuroprosthesis,” Proc. ISCAS’05 – 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 2005. Paulo Lopes, José Gerald, “New Normalyzed LMS Algorithms Based on the Kalman Filter”, ISCAS’07. Cesaltina N. E. Ricardo, M. D. Ortigueira, J. A. Gerald “New Quasi-Orthogonal BCH-Derived Sequences for CDMA Applications”, ETT - European Transactions on Telecommunications, Vol. 18, Issue 7, pp. 803-810, November 2007.

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Name José João Henriques Teixeira de Sousa Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1998 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Software/Configware Algorithms Keywords Reconfigurable Computing, Electronic Design Automation, Electronic Testing Research Topics Methods and techniques for rapid design, implementation and verification of complex

hardware/software systems. Best 5 papers Ateet Bhalla, Inês Lynce, José T. de Sousa and João Marques-Silva, Heuristic-Based

Backtracking Relaxation for Propositional Satisfiability, Journal of Automated Reasoning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, available online since December 23, 2005, paper version in preparation. M. Abramovici and J.T. de Sousa, A SAT Solver using Reconfigurable Hardware and Virtual Logic, in /SAT2000, Highlights of Satisfiability Research in the Year 2000, a book of the series ``Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'', IOS Press, pp 377-402 J.T. de Sousa, P.Y.K. Cheung, Diagnosis of Boards for Realistic Interconnect Shorts, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, 11, Kluwer Academic Publishers, October 1997. J.T. de Sousa, F.M. Gonçalves, J.P. Teixeira, C. Marzocca, F. Corsi, T.W. Williams, Defect Level Evaluation in an IC Design Environment, IEEE Transactions on CAD, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1286-1293, October 1996. J.T Sousa, F.M. Gonçalves, J.P. Teixeira, Physical Design of Testable CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1064-1072 July 1991.


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Name José Júlio Alves Paisana Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1996, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices Keywords Semiconductor, thyristor, commutation, filamentation, finite- differences Research Topics The fundamental research interests are concerning the modelling and numerical

simulation of power semiconductor devices. I have used non-linear theory of systems and finite differences numerical methods applied to semiconductor equations to study the commutation process of p-n-p-n structures. Bifurcation and blow-up theories have also been fundamental tools to analyze the nature of the catastrophic electric ignition which can be present in the turn-on and turn-off processes.

Best 5 papers J. Alves Paisana, H. Abreu Santos "Applications of bifurcation theory to thyristor turn-on and turn-off", Solid-State Electronics, vol 41,nº11, pp 1803-1809, 1997 H. Abreu Santos, J. Alves Paisana "On the MC Simulation of ohmic contacts", Microelectronic Engineering, 43-44, pp 507-512, 1998 J. Alves Paisana "Piezoelectric Coupling to Electron Drift in Compound Semiconductors", Microelectronic Engineering, 51-52, pp 249-256, May 2000 J. Alves Paisana, H. Abreu Santos, "Applications of Blow-up Theory to Thyristor Turn-on", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 49, pp 177-179, January 2002 J. Alves Paisana, H. Abreu Santos, “Filamentation and blow-up ignition in p-n-p-n Devices”, 12th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference -MELECON 2004, pp 47-50, May 2004


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Name Mª Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1990, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Production Engineering and Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Power Electronics Keywords High frequency power conversion, resonant converters, soft-switching, contactless

energy transfer, power factor correction and active filtering, switching audio power amplifiers, EMI

Research Topics The author has developed research work in the following power electronics areas: High frequency switching power conversion, resonant and quasi resonant converters, soft-switching converters, power factor correction and active power filters, contactless energy transfer,CMOS integration of switched converters. Currently the author supervises six PhD Thesis and 12 master thesis in the areas of: Contactless energy transfer, Soft-switching converters, CMOS integration of switched converters, Single stage power factor correctors, Active power filters and Switching Audio Amplifiers.

Best 5 papers S. Finco, W.R. Melo, J. A. Pomilio, Beatriz V. Borges e P.M. Santos, “Smart Power Integrated Circuit Targeted at Educational Purposes”, IEEE - Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.22, No.4, pp.1290 - 1302, July, 2007. Santos, P.M.; V.C. Costa; M. Gomes; Beatriz V. Borges; M. Lança, "High-Voltage LDMOS Transistors Fully Compatible with a Deep Submicron 0.35 um CMOS Process", Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 38, pp.35-40 , January, 2007. Hugo Marques, A. V. Anunciada and Beatriz V. Borges, "Optimizing the Transient Behavior and Frequency Response of Constant Frequency One-Cycle Control: The Charge Control Modulator”, Procc. IEEE - Power Electronics Specialists Conference, vol.1 pp.2647-2651, PESC´07, Orlando, EUA, Junho, 2007. S. Valtchev, K. Brandisky, Beatriz V. Borges, J.Ben Kllaassens, “Efficient Resonant Inductive Coupling Energy Transfer Using New Magnetic and Design Criteria”, Procc. IEEE - Power Electronics Specialists Conference, pp.1293-1298 PESC´05, Recife, Brasil, Junho, 2005. Beatriz V. Borges, “A Simple and Accurate Tool to Calculate the Spectra of the Output Electrical Variables of DC-AC Resonant and Soft-Switching Converters” International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control EPE-PEMC 2004, Riga, Letónia, 2004.


- Chipidea - Bose Research Lda

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Name Mª João Ramos M. Coelho Carrilho do Rosário Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords RFIC, Modelling, Wireless communications, Mixers, Amplifiers, Oscillators Research Topics The research interests are in the area of characterisation and modelling of active and

passive electronic circuits and devices for wireless systems. Wireless communications transceiver architecture with special emphasis on achieving Tx/Rx architectures capable of circumventing the system impairments caused by the radio channel and its associated interface electronic blocks are also a topic of investigation. RF & Microwave active circuit analysis and design namely amplifiers, mixers and oscillators. All aspects of linear or nonlinear modelling, from functional description to parameter extraction, simulation algorithms and, finally, model validation are taken into account.

Best 5 papers Fernando Fortes and Maria João Rosário, "A Second Harmonic Class F Power Amplifier In Standard CMOS Technology", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Special Issue on Advances in RF/MW Power Amplifiers, Junho 2001. Christian Fager, José Carlos Pedro, Nuno Borges de Carvalho, Herbert Zirath, Fernando Fortes e Maria João Rosário, “A Comprehensive Analysis of IMD Behavior in RF CMOS Power Amplifiers”, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, 24-34, Janeiro 2004. M. J. Rosário, J. Vaz, F. Le-Strat, P. F. Alléaume, J. Schroth, T.Müller and J. Costa Freire, "Low Cost LTCC Filters for a 30GHz Satellite System", 33rd European Microwave Conference, München, Germany, October 2003. Rosário, M. J.; C. Peixeiro; S. Blaisot; P. Alleaume; J. Schrotg; T. Mueller; J. Costa Freire; "Design and Optimization of mmW Defect Ground Planar Filters on LTCC", Procedings of International Workshop on Microwave Filters, Toulouse, France, Vol.1, 110-112, September 2004. Vaz, J.M.; M. J. Rosário; J. Costa Freire; "Low Cost Si MMIC Design for RF Front Ends", Procedings of Asia Pacific Microwave Conference – APMC (CD), New Delhi, India, abstract, 494-495, December 2004.

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Name Marcelino Bicho dos Santos Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2001 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Quality, Test and Co-Design of HW/SW Systems Keywords 1) Digital integrated circuits design and test: fault models, fault simulation, fault

emulation in FPGAs, DFT, BIST, fault tolerant design 2) Design of integrated DC-DC converters.

Research Topics Digital integrated circuits (IC) high-quality test preparation takes into account test effectiveness, overhead, time and power. The test quality strongly depends on the fault models used and on the test preparation methodology and tools. The fast technology evolution in the digital IC production domain imposes permanent challenges in the test area: actual technologies require more complex fault models (delays, bridging and open faults) in test preparation and the reduction of the test application costs can only be achieved using design for testability (DFT) techniques like built-in self-test (BIST). Test preparation costs can also be dramatically reduced using fault emulation in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Fault tolerant designs are becoming mandatory to introduce robustness to single event upsets (SEUs) and to increase the production yield. In today’s consumer market, battery-operated portable electronic devices are in great demand. Power management ICs, such as the highly efficient low-voltage switch-mode DC–DC converters, are mandatory in these devices for maximizing the system run time. Another important factor is manufacturing cost, since many of the end products are sold in very cost competitive mass markets. As a result, an actual challenge is to optimize and implement low-power power converters in standard CMOS technologies.

Best 5 papers D. Barros Júnior, M. Rodriguez-Irago, M. B. Santos, F. Vargas, J. P. Teixeira, “Fault Modeling and Simulation of Power Supply Voltage Transients in Digital Systems on a Chip”, Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Application (JETTA) 21, pp.349-363, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. Abílio Parreira, J. Paulo Teixeira, Marcelino B. Santos, “Built-In Self-Test Quality Assessment Using Hardware Fault Emulation In FPGAS”, Computing and Informatics,Vol. 23,537 –556, 2004. M. B. Santos, I.C. Teixeira and J.P. Teixeira, S. Manich, L. Balado and J. Figueras, “On High-Quality, Low Energy Built-In Self Test Preparation at RT-Level”, Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Application (JETTA), 20(4), pp. 345-354, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Aug. 2004. M.B. Santos, F.M. Gonçalves, I.C. Teixeira and J.P. Teixeira, "RTL Design Validation, DFT and Test Pattern Generation for High Defects Coverage", Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Application (JETTA), vol. 18, Nº. 1, pp. 177-185, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. [special issue, ETW 2001] José M. Fernandes, Marcelino B. Santos, Arlindo Oliveira, João C. Teixeira, “A Probabilistic Method for the Computation of Testability of RTL Constructs”, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, pp. 10176-10181, February 2004.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100288; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http:\\figaro.inesc-id.pt\~mabs

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Name Paulo Ferreira Godinho Flores Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2001, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Computer Systems Engineering and Electronics Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group ALGOS - ALGorithms for Optimization and Simulation Keywords Embedded Systems; Design, Test and Verification of Digital Systems; Optimization

Models for Hardware/Software problems (mainly using SAT); Parallel Computing Research Topics My main research is in the Electronic Design Automation area (EDA/CAD). I am

researching on models and algorithms for several optimization problems in digital circuits, such as: testing, area, delay, architecture, etc. I am involved in the design of optimized Multiple Constant Multiplications, used in many signal processing applications, e.g. FIR/IIR filters, FFTs. The design and synthesis of digital circuits from hardware description languages such as VHDL, SystemC, or generic programing languages (C/C++, Java), for FPGA (Filed Programmable Gate Arrays) is another research area in which I have some interest. The distribution of power supply in digital circuits is becoming a major problem in circuit design due to the low voltages used. I am also researching and developing analysis tools for the power distribution in digital circuits. Another research area I pursuit is the parallel computation and its application to the computer aided design of electronic circuits. I am studying the implementation of some algorithms used in EDA in a GRID computation environment. This environment will take advantage of many networked computers to model a powerful virtual computer that is able to distribute process execution across a parallel infrastructure.

Best 5 papers L. Aksoy, E. Costa, P. Flores, J. Monteiro, "Exact and Approximate Algorithms for the Optimization of Area Under a Delay Constraint of Multiple Constant Multiplications", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), (accepted for publication). Levent Aksoy, Eduardo Costa, Paulo Flores, J. Monteiro, "Area Optimization of Digital FIR Filters using Gate-Level Metrics", IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun. 2007. Paulo Flores, Jos Monteiro, Eduardo Costa, "An Exact Algorithm for the Maximal Sharing of Partial Terms in Multiple Constant Multiplication". In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design (ICAD), Nov. 2005. Paulo F. Flores, Horcio C. Neto, Joo Marques-Silva, "An exact solution to the minimum size test pattern problem". ACM Trans. on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 6(4):629-644, Oct. 2001. Paulo Flores, "Models and Algorithms for Optimization Problems in Digital Circuits Testing". PhD thesis, I.S.T, Universidade Tcnica de Lisboa, 2001. Paulo Flores, Horcio Neto, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Joo Marques-Silva, "Test Pattern Generation for Width Compression in BIST". Proc. of the IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. I, May 1999.

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Name Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2001, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Basic Sciences Research Unit IT Research Group Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies, Instrumentation and Measurement Keywords Instrumentation and Measurement, Automated Measurement Systems, Data

Acquisition Systems, Virtual Instrumentation, Least-Squares Fitting Algorithms, Measurement of Power Quality Disturbances, Impedance Measurements.

Research Topics The main research areas are: (i) Least-Squares Fitting of acquired data for the estimation of signal parameters which can be used in many fields of instrumentation and measurement, system identification and signal processing and includes sine-fitting, multi-harmonic fitting and ellipse fitting algorithms; (ii) Impedance Measurements with the development of simple techniques based on least-squares algorithms to accurately measure the impedance parameters using analog to digital converters and signal processing techniques; (iii) Measurement of Power Quality Disturbances with the development of new signal processing techniques for the efficient and correct detection and classification of power quality disturbance events. Together with these main areas and also common to them all, instrumentation and measurement basic research including uncertainty estimation, sensor development and implementation, application and development of automated measurement systems including data acquisition systems and virtual instrumentation are areas of research expertise.

Best 5 papers Tomáš Radil, Pedro M. Ramos, A. Cruz Serra, “Impedance measurement with sine-fitting algorithms implemented in a DSP portable device”, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 57, n.º 1, pp. 197-204, Jan. 2008. Tomáš Radil, Pedro M. Ramos, Fernando M. Janeiro, A. Cruz Serra, “DSP Based Power Quality Analyzer for Detection and Classification of Disturbances in a Single-phase Power System”, Metrology and Measurement Systems, vol. XIV, n.º 4, pp. 483-494, 2007. Pedro M. Ramos, A. Cruz Serra, “Least-squares multiharmonic fitting: convergence improvements”, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 56, n.º 4, pp. 1412-1418, Aug. 2007. Pedro M. Ramos, M. F. da Silva, Raul C. Martins, A. Cruz Serra, “Simulation and experimental results of multiharmonic least-squares fitting algorithms applied to periodic signals”, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 55, n.º 2, pp. 646-651, Apr. 2006. Pedro M. Ramos, M. Fonseca da Silva, A. Cruz Serra, “Low frequency impedance measurement using sine-fitting”, Measurement, Elsevier, vol. 35, n.º 1, pp. 89-96, Jan. 2004.


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Name Pedro Rafael Bonifácio Vitor Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417667; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name Raúl Daniel Lavado Carneiro Martins Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Magnetic Induction Tomography. Cardiac impedance rheography or

plethismography. Biomedical instrumentation and image reconstruction. Nonlinear systems. Ultrasound imaging, substrate identification and underwater surface determination. Intelligent sensors

Research Topics My current topics of research deal mainly with the resolution of the ill-posed inverse problem associated with tomographic magnetic induction systems in biological tissues. The research is being carried on the instrumentation front-end, eddy current electromagnetic modeling and image processing algorithms. I also actively pursue research in the topics of cardiac related instrumentation, namely on the development of instrumentation and algorithms (morphology identification, pattern classification) for the automatic detection of arrhythmias. Some research is also being carried out on the automatic detection of the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage during sleep. On the ultrasound arena, I've been actively involved in the acoustic imaging and material detection through acoustic impedance mismatch. Another topic of research which I pursue is identification and compensation of nonlinear behavior of transducers under influence variables. Associated with this topic is also the development of intelligent transducers and sensor networks.

Best 5 papers Serra, A.C.; M. F. Silva; P.M. Ramos; RCM Martins; L. Michaeli; J. Saliga; "Combined spectral and histogram analysis for fast ADC testing ", IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement , Vol. 54 , No. 4 , pp. 1617 - 1623 , August , 2005 Martins, RCM; A.C. Serra; " Representation and Measurement of Nonlinearities in Stimulus Signals ", IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Measurement , Vol. 52 , No. 4 , pp. 1160 - 1165 , August , 2003. Martins, RCM; A.C. Serra; " Nonlinearity representation and PDF measurement of ADC testing signals ", Measurement, Vol. 32 , No. 4 , pp. 281 - 288 , December , 2002. Queirós, R.; RCM Martins; P.M. Girão; A.C. Serra; " A New Method for High Resolution Ultrasonic Ranging in Air ", Proc IMEKO World Congress, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , September , 2006. Soares, L; RCM Martins; "Reduced parameter space for reliable clinical identification of the ECG using neural networks and a skewed Gaussian template", Proc. of the International workshop on Medical Meas. and applications", April, 2006. Martins, RCM; A.C. Serra; " Automated Methodology for Modeling and Measuring Memoryless Nonlinearities from the Stochastic Properties of a Signal ", Proc IEEE AFRICON Conference in Africa, Gabarone , Botswana , Vol. 1 , pp. 1 - 6 , September, 2004.


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Name Teresa Maria Canavarro M. Mendes de Almeida Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2005 Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Signal Processing Systems Keywords Phase Locked Loops, Digital Signal Processing Techniques, Biosensor Modeling Research Topics Analog and digital phase locked loops modeling, design and implementation.

Formalism for analysis and synthesis of APLLs and DPLLs of any order and type. DPLL normalized linear models matching an implementation on a DSP. DPLL design based on an equivalent APLL or with some desired frequency response. High order DPLL design and implementation on a fixed point DSP. Digital signal processing techniques for system implementation on fixed point DSPs. Biosensor modeling for biomolecular recognition applications.

Best 5 papers T. M. Almeida, M. S. Piedade, P. C. Lopes, L. Sousa, J. Germano, F. Cardoso, H. A. Ferreira, P. P. Freitas, Magnetoresistive Biosensor Modelling for Biomolecular Recognition, XVIII IMEKO World Congress - Metrology for a Sustainable Development, September, 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. T. M. Almeida, M. S. Piedade, F. Cardoso, H. A. Ferreira, P. P. Freitas, Characterisation and Modelling of a Magnetic Biosensor, 2006 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference – IMTC2006, Sorrento, Italy April 2006. T. M. Almeida, M. S. Piedade, Recursive Approximation of Analog Integrators, III Conferência das Telecomunicações – ConfTele2001, Figueira da Foz, April 2001. T. M. Almeida, M. S. Piedade, High Performance Analog and Digital PLL Design, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 99, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., May/June 1999. T. M. Almeida, M. S. Piedade, High Order PLL Implemented in a Fixed-Point DSP, Tenth Annual International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology – ICSPAT 99, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., November 1999.


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Name Carlos Mexia de Almeida de Azeredo Leme Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS (on leave as Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice-

President of IP Wireless Systems Division of Chipidea - MIPS Analog Business Group)

Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit Research Group Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418376; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name João Paulo Calado Cordeiro Vital Teaching Unit: ELECTRONICS (on leave as Vice-President of Data Conversion

Solutions of Chipidea - MIPS Analog Business Group) Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit Research Group Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417674; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name João José Esteves Santana Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1983, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Energy and Environmental Policies Keywords Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Energy Economics Research Topics Analysis and synthesis of electrical machines driven by power electronics circuits.

Economical problems of power systems: market versus regulation Best 5 papers J. Santana, "Control Loop Study of the Induction Motor Driven by Current Source

Inverter", In H. Buyse, J. Robert eds, Electrical Machines and Converters, pag.s 57-62, Elsevier Sciense Publishers, 1985. João Palma, J. Santana, "Vector Representation in Modelling and Synthesis of PWM Techniques for Several Three-Phase Converters Strutures", in R. le Doeuff and J. Robert eds, Modelliing and Control of Electrical Machines: News Trends, pag.s 209-214, Elsevier Sciense Publishers, 1991. J. Santana, E. Margato, "Analysis of Induction Generator with Current Source Inverter", ICEM, Vol. 2, pag.s 1064-1071, Manchester, 1992. J. Santana, G. Marques, "Quasiperiodicity and Chaos Study in the Janet Experience", PEMC'96, pag.s 2.62-2.69, Budapest, 1996. J. Resende, L. Pierrat, J, Santana, “The Transformer Thermal Loss of Life: Part 1 - Improved Deterministic Approach for Thermal and Ageing Models”, European Transactions on Electrical Power, Vol. 13, Jul./Aug. 4/2003, ISSN 1430-144X.


- ERSE - CP - ML

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Name Joaquim António Fraga Gonçalves Dente Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1986, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Alternative energies / electric energy conversion Keywords Electrical Machines, Electromechanical Actuators, Continuum electromechanics,

Electrical energy Research Topics The current research interests are on electromechanics namely continuum

electromechanics in deformable media (magneto-rheological fluids), electromagnetic field applications using superconductor materials and command and control of electrical machines.

Best 5 papers P. J. Costa Branco and J. A. Dente, “Derivation of a Continuum Model and Its Electric Equivalent-circuit Representation for Ionic Polymer–Metal Composite (IPMC) Electromechanics”, Smart Matter. Struct., vol.15, pp. 378-392, 2006 J. F. Martins, J. A. Dente, A. J. Pires, R. Vilela Mendes, "Entropy Analysis on Electrical Drives Language Modeling", Intelligent Systems at the Service of Mankind, Vol. 2, Ubooks; Alemanha, 2006. J. F. Martins, J. A. Dente, A. J. Pires, R. Vilela Mendes "Automatic Language Control of Electrical Drives. Background and Applications"; Intelligent Systems at the Service of Mankind, Vol. 1, Ubooks; Alemanha, 2004. Costa Branco, P.J.; Dente, J.A.“On the Electromechanics of a Piezoelectric Transducer Using a Bimorph Cantilever Undergoing Asymmetric Sensing and Actuation”, Smart Matter. Struct. Vol. 13, pp. 631-642, 2004. Costa Branco, P.J.; Dente, J.A.; Vilela Mendes, R; (2003) “Using Immunology Principles for Fault Diagnosis”, IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2003.


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Name José António Marinho Brandão Faria Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1986, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Basic Sciences & Energy Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices Keywords Electromagnetic Fields, Transmission Lines, Multiconductor Systems, Guided Wave

Propagation Phenomena Research Topics 2007 Activities: We proceeded to the analysis of the accurate determination of

magnetic fields produced by high-voltage overhead power lines whose deleterious effects on humans are of growing concern throughout the scientific community; special techniques to reduce magnetic field effects were addressed encompassing the use of mitigation loops and capacitor compensation. Our analysis focused initially only on 50 Hz analysis, but later we extended its application to higher-order harmonics. In addition, by using a harmonic expansion method, we developed a multiconductor transmission-line model aimed at the evaluation of the constitutive matrix parameters of power inductor windings at high-frequency regimes (fast transients) taking proximity effects into account. With this model we analyzed the frequency-domain and time-domain resonant responses of typical inductor windings.

Best 5 papers J.A. Brandão Faria, Book: Multiconductor Transmission-Line Structures, Wiley, New York, 1993. J.A. Brandão Faria, M.E. Almeida, “Accurate calculation of magnetic-field intensity due to overhead lines with or without mitigation loops with or without capacitor compensation,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 951-959, April 2007. J.A. Brandão Faria, “Evaluation of indoor cable capacitances taking into account conductor proximity and dielectric heterogeneity effects,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1919-1926, Oct. 2006. J.A. Brandão Faria, “Conservation laws for time-domain signals propagating along multiconductor transmission-line structures,” IEE Proceedings – Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, vol. 150, no. 5, pp. 375-378, Oct. 2003. J.A. Brandão Faria, M.V. Guerreiro Neves, “Analysis of the helical twisted-wire pair running above ground: Transfer function evaluation,” IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 449-453, May 2003.

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Name José Pedro da Silva Sucena Paiva Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1972, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Keywords Energy and Power Systems Research Topics Power system analysis and control, Renewable energy and decentralised generation,

Energy policy and management. Best 5 papers J.P. Sucena Paiva, "Electric Power Networks - a Systems Aproach" (book, 800 pages,

in Portuguese, IST Press, 2005). J.P. Sucena Paiva, R. Hernandez e L.L. Freris, "Stability study of controlled rectifiers using a new discrete model", Proceedings of IEE , Vol 119, Londres, Setembro 1972. J.P. Sucena Paiva e L.L. Freris, "Stability of rectifiers with voltage - controlled oscillator firing systems", Proceedings of the IEE, Vol. 120, Londres, Junho, 1973. J. L. de Sá e J.P. Sucena Paiva, "A multitasking software architecture to implement concurrent switching sequences designed with Petri nets",IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, nº 4, Vol. 6, Julho 1991. L.M.Barruncho, J.P. Sucena Paiva, C.C. Liu, R. Pestana e A. Vidigal, "Reactive management and voltage monitoring and control", Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 14, No.2/3, Abril/Junho 1992. J.P. Sucena Paiva, J. M. Ferreira de Jesus, Rui M. Castro, Pedro F. Correia, João Ricardo, A. Reis Rodrigues, João Moreira, Bruno Nunes, “Transient Stability Network Study of the Portuguese Electrical Energy Transport Network with High Volumes of Wind Power Production”, XI Encuentro Regional Iberoamericano de Cigré, Itaupu, Paraguai, 2005.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417698; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://energia.ist.utl.pt/sucenapaiva/

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Name Luís António Fialho Marcelino Ferreira Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1986, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, EUA Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power and Energy Systems Keywords Optimization applied to POWER and ENERGY systemsPlanning, management, and

operation Transmission and distribution systems Research Topics Our research interests cover the activities of planning, management and operation of

generation, transmission and distribution systems in as much as those activities can be improved by specific optimization techniques. We have been dealing with strategic investment planning of power resources, medium-term and short-term resource scheduling, planning of wind resources, operation of hydro resources, planning of distribution network, and operation of distribution systems. We care for research of technologies which have great impact on industrial activities. We do also care for research fostering a better understanding of fundamental aspects of technology and leading not only to new procedures but also to new formulas and equations.

Best 5 papers L.A.F.M. Ferreira, T. Andersson, C.F. Imparato, T.E. Miller, C.K. Pang, A. Svoboda, e .F. Vojdani, "Short-term resource scheduling in multi-area hydrothermal power systems", International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems", EPES-11, p. 200-212, 1989. L.A.F.M. Ferreira, "Tellegen’s theorem and power systems — new load flow equations, new solution methods", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, CAS-37, pp. 519-526, April 1990. L.A.F.M. Ferreira, "Evaluation of short-term wind predictability", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 409-417, September 1992. L.A.F.M. Ferreira, "On the convergence of the classic hydro-thermal coordination algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, PWRS-9, pp1002-1008, May 1994. P M S Carvalho, L A F M Ferreira, L M F Barruncho “On Spanning-Tree Recombination in Evolutionary Large-Scale Network Problems: Application to Electrical Distribution Planning”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol.5, No. 6, pp. 623-630, December 2001.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417700; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://energia.ist.utl.pt/lmf/

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Name José Fernando Alves da Silva Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1990, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power Electronics and Power Quality Keywords Switching converters; power processors; digital audio amplifiers; multilevel

converters; Unity power factor rectifiers (UPFR); modelling simulation and control in power electronics; power devices; sliding mode, fuzzy, fractional and predictive control.

Research Topics Power semiconductor devices. Switching converter modeling, simulation and control. New switching converter topologies for scientific, medical, measurement and audio applications (ultra low-ripple high-current generators, high-current kV pulse generators, digital audio amplifiers); Switching converters and control imbedding for clean power, energy conservation, power quality and renewable energy applications (UPFR, VAR compensators, passive and active power filters, UPFC, DVR, FACTS); Advanced control of power converters (sliding mode control, predictive control, fuzzy control, fractional control).

Best 5 papers Fernando A. Silva, Sónia F. Pinto, “Control Methods for Switching Power Converters”, chapter 34, pp 935-998 of Power Electronics Handbook 2nd edition, Editor M. H. Rashid, Academic Press, ELSEVIER, 1172pp, ISBN 13:978-0-12-088479-7, ISBN 10:0-12-088479-8, USA, 2007. Fernando A. Silva (CAUTL, IST, UTL), Vitor Antunes (CAUTL, ESTS), Vitor Pires (CAUTL, ESTS), Amplificador de Potência Áudio Integralmente Digital, com Fontes em Progressão Geométrica Fraccionária, Três Níveis de Saída por Fonte e Alargamento de Impulsos Estreitos, Patent PT 103651, 05/02/2007. Granted by INPI 12/09/2007. V. F. Pires, Fernando A. Silva, Three-Phase Single-Stage Four Switch PFC Buck-Boost Type Rectifier, special issue on Modern Rectifiers of the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics vol 52, nº2, Abril 2005, pp 1-10 Fernando A. Silva, V. F. Pires, S. Pinto, J. D. Barros, Advanced control methods for power electronics systems, special issue on Modelling and simulation of Electrical Machines, Converters and Systems of the Transactions on Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, IMACS, vol 63, 3-5, pp 281-295, Nov 2003, ISSN 0378-4754 L. Redondo, E. Margato, J. Fernando Silva, Rise Time Reduction in High-Voltage Pulse Transformers Using Auxiliary Windings, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 17, no. 2, pp 196-206, March 2002, ISSN 0885-8993.


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Name José Luís Costa Pinto de Sá Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power and Energy Systems Keywords Research Topics Power Systems and Apparatus protective relaying

Substations automation, real-time programming, Petri Nets and IEC 61850 standard application Human Safeness in electric Power environments Industrial power systems analysis and design

Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417701; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name José Manuel Dias Ferreira de Jesus Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1982 Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Keywords Power Systems; Wind Turbine Generators; Fuel Cells; Transients in Power Systems. Research Topics Impact on the Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems of the decentralized

power generation Best 5 papers “Transient Stability Study of the Portuguese Transmission Network with a High

Share of Wind Power” (com J.P. Sucena Paiva, Rui M.G. Castro; Pedro Flores; João Ricardo; A. Reis Rodrigues; João Moreira; Bruno Nunes), XI ERIAC Undécimo Encuentro Regional Iberoamericano de CIGRÉ, May 2005. "A Wind Park Reduced-Order Model Using Singular Perturbations Theory", (com Rui M.G. Castro), IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 11, No. 4, Dec. 1996, pp. 735 - 741. "An Aggregated Wind Park Model", (com Rui M.G.Castro), Proceedings 13th Power Systems Computation Conference - PSCC'99, Jun 1999. “Development and Validation of a Wind Park Grid Integration Model”, (com Ana I.L. Estanqueiro, Rui M.G. Castro, Luís Oliveira, F. Mar-ques da Silva, Jorge A.G. Saraiva), Proc. European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) Special Topic Conference: Integration of Wind Power Plants in the Environment and Electric Systems, October 1996. "A Model for Saturation in Induction Machines", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. EC-3, September 1988.


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Name Mª Teresa N. P. de Castro Correia de Barros Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1985, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Power Systems Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Corona, Electromagnetic Transients, Power Quality Research Topics Modeling of power systems components, including non-uniform and/or non-linear

behaviours of transmission lines, poles and ground electrodes. Wave propagation on transmission lines illuminated by external electromagnetic fields. Computation and analysis of Electromagnetic Transients. Lightning, lightning performance and lightning protection. Power Quality evaluation.

Best 5 papers C.A. Nucci, S. Guerrieri, M.T. Correia de Barros, F. Rachidi, "Influence of corona on the voltages induced by nearby lightning on overhead distribution lines ", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 1265-1273, October 2000. M.T. Correia de Barros, M.E. Almeida, L.Dubé, B. Stein, “A general-purpose transmission line model and its interface with an electromagnetic transients programme”, Electric Power &Energy Systems, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 249-254, April 1997. M.E. Almeida, M.T. Correia de Barros, “Accurate Modelling of Rod-driven Tower Footing”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1606-1609, July 1996. M.T. Correia de Barros, “Identification of the Capacitance Coefficients of Multiphase Transmission Lines exhibiting Corona”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 1642-1648, July 1995. C. de Jesus, M.T. Correia de Barros, “Modelling of Corona Dynamics for Surge Propagation Studies”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 1564-1569, July 1994.


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Name Vitor Manuel de Oliveira Maló Machado Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1988 Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices Keywords Electromagnetic field, eddy currents, computation methods, finite element method,

boundary element method, hybrid methods. Research Topics The main research area is included in the theme of Electromagnetic Field

Computation for Electrical Engineering Devices. In this area, work has been done in the development of analytical and numerical methods, in particular the finite element method (FEM). In particular, quasi-static magnetic field problems in the presence of eddy currents have been considered in the frequency domain or, for non-linear problems, in the time domain. Also, hybrid methods have been developed for open boundary field problems, by combining the FEM with the boundary element method (BEM). The BEM, describing the field for exterior homogeneous and source free regions, has been either based on integral formulations for the field, considering the appropriate Green functions, or based on analytical treatments by using cylindrical or spherical harmonic expansions. Magnetic field problems in the presence of ferromagnetic media have been also taken into account where saturation and hysteresis effects are treated to be included in electromagnetic computation programs. The described techniques may be used to analyse a wide range of electrical engineering devices such as transformers, electric machines, transmission lines, microwave and optical wave-guides or integrated circuits.

Best 5 papers V. Maló Machado, J. F. Borges da Silva, “Magnetic Forces for Axisymmetric Eddy Current Problems Using a Hybrid FE/BE Method”, accepted for . publication in IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, USA, vol. 42, April 2006. Presented in COMPUMAG2005, The 15th Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, June 26 - 30, 2005. J. Borges da Silva, V. Maló Machado, “Accurate Gradient Field Evaluation Using Node Potential Values Obtained by the Finite Element Method”, IEE Proc. – Sci. Meas. Technol., UK, vol. 152, nº 4, pp. 149-154, July 2005. V. Maló Machado, “Axisymmetric Eddy Current Problems Using a Special Hybrid FE/BE Method”, IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, USA, Vol. 39, nº 3, pp. 1143-1146, May 2003. Presented in The Tenth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, IEEE CEFC 2002, Perugia, Italy, June 16-19, 2002 (Conference Digests: paper P1-20, pp. 44). V. Maló Machado, A. Lopes Ribeiro, “Free Regimes in Electrical Circuits in the Presence of Ferromagnetic Hysteresis”, IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, USA, Vol. 37, nº 5, pp. 3159-3162, Sept. 2001. Presented in The 9th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, CEFC’2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, June 4-7, 2000 (Digests: pp.481). J. F. Borges da Silva, V. Maló Machado, “The Time-Harmonic Magnetic Field of a Thick Conducting Strip over a Lossy Substrate”, IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, USA, Vol. 35, nº 3, pp. 1135-1138, May 1999. Presented in The 8th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, IEEE CEFC’98, Tucson, Arizona, USA, June 1-3, 1998 (Proceedings: paper nº 115, pp.108).

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417977; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/research/cieee/side/members

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Name Gil Domingos Marques Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1988, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Alternative energies / electric energy conversion Keywords Electrical machines, static power conversion, adjustable speed drive and generator

systems, harmonic compensation systems and distribution systems. Research Topics His research interests include electrical machines, static power conversion, variable-

speed drive and generator systems, harmonic compensation systems and distribution systems.

Best 5 papers P. Verdelho, G. D. Marques, “An Active Power Filter and Unbalanced Current Compensator”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol. 44, Nº3 pp 321-328, June 1997, ISSN: 0278-0046 G. D. Marques, “A Simulation Method for the Slip Power Recovery System”, IEE Proceedings on Electric Power Applications, vol. 146, no 1, January 1999, pp 17-24, ISSN:1350-2352 G. D. Marques, P. Verdelho, “A Simple Slip Power Recovery System with a DC Voltage Intermediate Circuit and Reduced Harmonics on the Mains” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, February 2000. Vasco Soares, Pedro Verdelho and G. D. Marques, “An Instantaneous Active and Reactive Current Component Method for Active Power Filters” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 15, No. 4, July 2000. Mariusz Malinowski, Marian P. Kazmierkowski, Steffan Hansen, Frede Blaabjerg, G. D. Marques, “Virtual-Flux-Based Direct Power Control of Three-Phase PWM Rectifiers” IEEE Transactions on Industry AppliCations, vol. 37, no. 4, pp 1019-1027, July/August 2001.


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Name Paulo José da Costa Branco Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1998, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Alternative energies / electric energy conversion Keywords Electromechanical Actuators, Continuum electromechanics, Smart materials,

Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs), Electroactive fluids Research Topics The current research interests are on continuum electromechanics (the interaction of

fields with fluids and other deformable media) for advanced actuators/sensors based on smart materials as piezoelectric, ionic polymers-metal composites, and magneto-rheological fluids. Research on application of superconductors in energy systems for fault-current limiters and transportation vehicles, and also energy conversion in fuel cells are also my current research.

Best 5 papers Barramba, João; Silva, João; Costa Branco, P.J., Evaluation of dielectric gel coating for encapsulation of ionic polymer–metal composite (IPMC) actuators.”, Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 140, pp. 232-238, 2007. P. J. Costa Branco and J. A. Dente, “Derivation of a Continuum Model and Its Electric Equivalent-circuit Representation for Ionic Polymer–Metal Composite (IPMC) Electromechanics”, Smart Matter. Struct., Vol.15, pp. 378-392, 2006. Parreira, B.; Rafael, S.; Pires A.J.; Costa Branco, P.J.; “Obtaining the Magnetic Characteristics of an 8/6-Switched Reluctance Machine: from FEM Analysis to the Experimental Tests”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 52, No. 6, 2005. Costa Branco, P.J.; Dente, J.A. “On the Electromechanics of a Piezoelectric Transducer Using a Bimorph Cantilever Undergoing Asymmetric Sensing and Actuation”, Smart Matter. Struct., Vol. 13, pp. 631-642, 2004. Oliveira, P. Sousa; Costa Branco, P.J.; “Surface Deformation by Piezoelectric Actuator: from Park and Agrawal Models to a Simplified Model Formulation”, Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 115, pp. 235-244, 2004.

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Name Carlos Manuel do Amaral Alegria Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1980, Imperial College, University of London Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Renewable Energies Research Topics Biomass and Windenergy and Cogeneration Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417671; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name Célia Maria Santos Cardoso de Jesus Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2005, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Production Engineering and Technologies Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power and Energy Systems Keywords power system analysis, transmission and distribution networks Research Topics I have been doing research in the field of power system analysis, with special

emphasis on network analysis. Network analysis is becoming increasingly important as the transmission and distribution networks become more vulnerable to a new kind of demands. With the increasing penetration of renewable resources into distribution and transmission networks together with an increase in the demand for power reliability, the networks need to be better planned and better operated. The planning and operations became more computer dependent, as a result of an additional availability of observation data. In fact the optimization and control, so necessary for planning and operation, require a fast reliable analysis module. Power Flow Equations based on Tellegen’s Theorem when used in a reduced local model are a new and appropriate solution in this context.

Best 5 papers L.A.F.M.Ferreira, C.M.S.C. de Jesus, “Local Network Power Flow Analysis. An Accuracy Level Comparison for Two Sets of Equations”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp.1616-1623, Nov. 2006 C.M.S.C. Jesus, L.A.F.M. Ferreira, "Power System Voltage Sensitivities by Adjoint Networks" WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Issue 2, Vol. 5, pp. 183-189, February 2006 C.M.S.C. Jesus, L.A.F.M. Ferreira, "Comparing Power Flow Equations on a Local Basis for Distribution Networks”, Int. Conf. on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives, Setúbal-Portugal,12-14 April 2007 C.M.S.C. de Jesus, L.A.F.M. Ferreira, P.M.S. Carvalho, “Multiple Link Exchange for Distribution Network Optimization”, XCLEEE Funchal 5-7 July 2007


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Name Duarte de Mesquita e Sousa Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Alternative energies / electric energy conversion Keywords Electrical Drives, Power Electronics, Fast Field Cycling Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

(FFC NMR) Research Topics Development of power supplies and magnets to specific applications: i) Portable

NMR – FFC spectrometer, designing FFC magnets using computational optimization techniques; and, implementing power supplies fulfilling the FFC NMR requirements; ii) Magnetic Stimulation Equipment with Potential use in Biological Systems. Electrical systems to the Transports domain: development of energy storage solutions and management systems in low power electric vehicles (based on the usage of ultracapacitors and high capacity batteries).

Best 5 papers D. M. Sousa, G. D. Marques, P. J. Sebastião, and A. C. Ribeiro: “New isolated gate bipolar transistor two-quadrant chopper power supply for a fast field cycling nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer”, Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 74, Number 10, October 2003, pp. 4521-4528. D. M. Sousa, P. A. L. Fernandes, G. D. Marques, A. C. Ribeiro, and P. J. Sebastião: “Novel pulsed switched power supply for a Fast Field Cycling NMR spectrometer” Solid State NMR, 25 (2004), pp. 160-166. P. J. Sebastião, D. M. Sousa, A. C. Ribeiro, M. Vilfan, G. Lahajnar, J. Seliger, and S. Žumer: “Field-cycling NMR relaxometry of a liquid crystal above TNI in mesoscopic confinement”, Physical Review E, 72, 61702(2005). D. M. Sousa, P. J: Costa Branco and J. A. Dente: "Electric Bicycle Supplied by an Electronic Converter Using Distinct Forms of Energy Storage", “Powereng – 1st International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives”, Setúbal - Portugal , 12-14 April, 2007, Paper no. 223. D. M. Sousa, P. J. Costa Branco and J. A. Dente: "Electric Bicycle Using Batteries and Supercapacitors", “EPE 2007 - 12th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications”, Aalborg, Denmark, 2 - 5 September, 2007, Paper no. 346.


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Name Mª José Ferreira dos Santos Lopes de Resende Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1998, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power Electronics and Power Quality Keywords Thermal Ageing of Distribution Transformers; Power Quality; e-Learning Tools for

Electrical Engineering Research Topics Main factors constraining transformers’ thermal loss of life are load and ambient

temperature profiles they experience. Provided a suitable transformer thermal model and a loss of life one are chosen, it is possible, from a theoretical point of view, to determined its on-line expected loss of life. However, due to the random character of constrains, such a purely deterministic approach will lead to reduced reliability results. The physical characteristics of the real profiles that transformers are subjected to (deterministic and random), and the uncertainty associated to transformer's specific parameters used in its thermal model, require a probabilistic approach for the study of expected loss of life. The electric engineering is a difficult discipline both to learn and teach. It requires from the students, a higher level of abstraction than in other disciplines. The appearance of communication and information technologies (TIC) allows de development of teaching tools which objective is to improve de efficiency of the learning process.

Best 5 papers M. J. Resende, P. Rocha, Fernando Silva, G. Marques, F. Pimenta, Duarte Mesquita, Sónia Pinto, J Santana, “Advanced Training Course in Power Quality; A Case Study, 18th EAEEIE Conference, July 2007, Praha, Czech Republic. M. J. Resende, L. Pierrat, J, Santana, The Transformer Thermal Loss of Life: Part 1 - Improved Deterministic Approach for Thermal and Ageing Models, ETEP, Vol. 13, Jul./Aug. 4/2003, ISSN 1430-144X. M. J. Resende, L. Pierrat, J, Santana, The Transformer Thermal Loss of Life: Part 2 - Influence of Functional and Structural Parameters' Variability. A Probabilistic Approach, accepted for publication on the ETEP. M. J. Resende, L. Pierrat, J. Santana, The Influence of Correlated Functional Parameters On Transformer Thermal Loss of Life, 7th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Electric Machines and Systems, Electrimacs 2002, Montreal, Canadá, August 2002. Grenier Damien, Ivanov Sergiu, Labrique Francis, Labrique Sophie, Resende Maria José, Robyns Benoit, A co-operative development of e-learning tools for electrical engineering, In: Proceedings of the 16th EAEEIE Conference, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 2005, ISBN: 952-214-052-X, Jussi Salo ed(s), Lappeenranta, Finland, Lappeenranta University of Technology, 2005.


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Name Mª. Eduarda de Sampaio Pinto de Almeida Pedro Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1999, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices; Power and Energy Systems Keywords Electromagnetic Transients, Superconducting Fault Current Limiter Research Topics Transmission line, transmission tower and tower footing modelling; Lightning

performance of power transmission and distribution lines; Superconducting Fault Current Limiter

Best 5 papers Correia de Barros, M.T.; Almeida, M.E., “Computation of Electromagnetic Transients on Nonuniform Transmission Line”, IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1082-1091, April 1996. Almeida, M.E.; Correia de Barros, M.T., “Accurate Modelling of Rod Driven Tower Footing”, IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1606-1609, July 1996. Correia de Barros, M.T.; Almeida, M.E.; Dubé, L.; Stein, B., “A General-Purpose Transmission Line Model and its Interface with an Electromagnetic Transients Programme”, International Journal on Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 19, No. 14, pp. 249-254, May 1997. Brandão Faria, J.A.; Almeida, M.E., “Accurate Calculation of Magnetic-Field Intensity due to Overhead Power Lines with or Without Mitigation Loops With or Without Capacitor Compensation”, IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 951-959, April 2007. Brandão Faria, J.A.; Almeida, M.E., “Computation of Transmission Line Magnetic Field Harmonics”, European Transactions on Electrical Power, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 512-525, Sep/Oct 2007.


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Name Manuel Ventura Guerreiro das Neves Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices Keywords Research Topics Optical fibers, Solitons, Power lines, Electromagnetic transients Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417972; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name Pedro Alexandre Flores Correia Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Area Power and Energy Systems Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power and Energy Systems Keywords Power System Analysis and Economics; Power System Investment Planning;

Electricity Markets; Risk Assessment in Power Systems; Renewable and Distributed Generation; Protective Relaying.

Research Topics My recent research activity has been mainly on liberalized electricity markets, namely on the design and explotation of market rules, as a means to achieve highly competitive markets, and on the investment planning, as a means of being able to continue building new assets in a market structure. The main tools for this reasearch are game theory, optimization, financial analysis, and power system analysis. The long term goal of this research is to build a bridge between the traditional power system analysis and economics, where all decisions were made by a single agent, and the modern power system analysis and economics where decisions are decentralized and taken in a context of great uncertainty.

Best 5 papers P. F. Correia, P. M. S. Carvalho, L. A. F. M. Ferreira, J. Guedes, and J. Sousa, "Power plant multistage investment under market uncertainty", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 149-157, Jan. 2008. P. F. Correia, "Decentralized unit commitment in a market structure: problem formulation and solution advancement", IEE Proceedings on Generation, Transmission and Distribution, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 121-126, Jan. 2006 P. F. Correia, "Games with incomplete and asymmetric information in Poolco markets", IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 83-89, Feb. 2005. P. F. Correia, T. J. Overbye, and I. A. Hiskens, "Searching for noncooperative equilibria in centralized electricity markets", IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1417-1424, Nov. 2003. E. Bompard, P. Correia, G. Gross and M. Amelin, "Congestion-management schemes: a comparative analysis under a unified framework", IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 346-352, Feb. 2003.


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Name Pedro Manuel Santos de Carvalho Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1999, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Power Systems Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power and Energy Systems Keywords Optimization, Planning of distribution systems, Analysis and operations of power

systems, Power systems reliability and risk assessment, Quality of service. Research Topics Power systems planning, operation and analysis. Robust optimization algorithms and

advanced computer applications for large-scale distribution networks. Risk assessment, design for reliability, and power quality. Embedded generation.

Best 5 papers P M S Carvalho, P. F. Correia, L A F M Ferreira, “Mitigation of Interruption Reimbursements by Periodic Network Reconfiguration: Risk-based vs. Expected-value Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 22, No. 2, May 2007. P M S Carvalho, L A F M Ferreira, L M F Barruncho, “Optimization Approach to Dynamic Restoration of Distribution Systems”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 222-229 , March 2007. P M S Carvalho, L A F M Ferreira, L M F Barruncho “On Spanning-Tree Recombination in Evolutionary Large-Scale Network Problems: Application to Electrical Distribution Planning”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol.5, No. 6, pp. 613-630, December 2001. P M S Carvalho, L A F M Ferreira, F G Lobo and L M F Barruncho, “Distribution Network Expansion Planning Under Uncertainty: A Hedging Algorithm in an Evolutionary Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol.15, No.1, pp.412-416 January 2000. P M S Carvalho, L A F M Ferreira, F G Lobo and L M F Barruncho, “Optimal Distribution Network Expansion Planning Under Uncertainty by Evolutionary Decision Convergence”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems -- Special Issue on PSCC’96, Vol.20, No.2, pp.125-129, February 1998.


- EDP Distribuição (Utility) - ERSE (Regulatory authority)

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417706; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://energia.ist.utl.pt/pedro/

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Name Rui Manuel Gameiro de Castro Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1994, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power and Energy Systems Keywords Renewable energy, transient stability, FACTS Research Topics Renewable energy, concentrated solar power, off-shore wind power, wind

predictability, power systems analysis, energy storage systems, FACTS, energy economics.

Best 5 papers Sérgio Faias, Jorge Sousa, Rui Castro, “Contribution of Energy Storage Systems in Power Generation and Demand Balancing with Increasing Integration of Renewable Sources: Application to the Portuguese Power System”, 12th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2007), Aalborg, Denmark, September 2007. Filipe Medeiros, Hugo Cabrita, Rui Castro, “Controlling Active Power Flow in an Electrical Network with Conventional and Renewable Generation” New and Renewable Technologies for Sustainable Development (book chapter), Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, ISBN: 90 5809 626 2, 2004. Rui Castro, Luís A.M. Ferreira, “A Comparison Between Chronological and Probabilistic Methods to Estimate Wind Power Capacity Credit”, Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 16, November 2001. Rui Castro, J.M. Ferreira de Jesus, “A Wind Park Reduced-Order Model Using Singular Perturbations Theory”, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Volume II, Number 4, December 1996. Natália M.R. Santos, J. Fernando Silva, Vítor M.F. Pires, Rui M.G. Castro, “Modelling, Controller Design and Semiconductor Level Simulation of a Multilevel UPFC”, 12th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power – ICHQP, Cascais, Portugal, October 2006.


- Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira (EEM) - Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN)

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417710; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://energia.ist.utl.pt/ruicastro

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Name Sónia Maria Nunes dos Santos Paulo Ferreira Pinto Teaching Unit: POWER and ENERGY Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Energy, Environment and Mobility Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Power Electronics and Power Quality Keywords Power electronic converters, modelling, simulation, applications in power quality and

renewable energy sources, matrix converters, sparse matrix converters, space vector modulation, sliding mode and predictive control.

Research Topics Power electronic converters; converters modeling and simulation; new converter topologies for clean power and renewable energy sources; matrix converters and sparse matrix converters applications (FACTS, UPFC, VAR compensators); advanced control of power converters (sliding mode, predictive control); integrated control for power quality, energy conservation and renewable energy sources.

Best 5 papers Pinto, S.; Silva, J.; "Sliding Mode Direct Control of Matrix converters", IET Proc. Electric Power Applications, Vol. 1, No 3, pp 439-448, May 2007. Silva, J.; Pires, V.; Pinto, S.; Barros, J.; "Advance Control Methods for Power Converters", special issue on Modelling and Simulation of Electrical Machines, Converters and Systems of the Transactions on Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, IMACS, vol 63, 3-5, pp 281-295, November 2003. Pinto, S.; Silva, J.; "Constant Frequency Sliding Mode and PI Linear Controllers for Power Rectifiers: a Comparison", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol 46, No 1, pp 39-51, February 1999. Pinto, S.; Silva, J.; "Comando e Controlo Vectorial Directo Generalizado de Conversores Matriciais", Patent PT-102984, published in BPI nº 7/2005, 25th May 2005. Pinto, S.; Aparício, L., Esteves, P.; "Direct Controlled Matrix Converters in Variable Speed Wind Energy Generation Systems", Proc. IEEE POWERENG'07, Setúbal, Portugal, April 2007.


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Faculty: Systems, Decision and Control

Name João José dos Santos Sentieiro Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL (on leave as President of Fundação

para a Ciência e Tecnologia, FCT) Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418289; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name João Manuel Lage de Miranda Lemos Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1989, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Embedded Electronic Systems, Control of Dynamic Systems Keywords Computer control, adaptive control, predictive control, multiple model switching

control, control applications, control of anesthesia, control of plants with transport phenomena.

Research Topics The research interests are concerned with control of uncertain systems. For this sake, tools from adaptive control are used, with emphasis on the use of methods combining adaptation and predictive control, switched multiple model control and adaptation based on Lyapunov functions. Applications range from "technical systems" such as thermoelectric power systems and water distribution systems (either in canals or pipes) to biomedical applications, including the control of anesthesia and HIV-1 infection.

Best 5 papers Lemos, J. M.; H. Magalhães, T. Mendonça and R. Dionísio (2005). Control of euromuscular blockade in the presence of sensor faults. IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng. 52(11):1902-1911. Silva, R. N.; N. Filatov, J. M. Lemos and H. Unbehauen (2005). A dual approach to start-up of an Adaptive Predictive Controller. IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, 13(6):877-883. Silva, R. N., J. M. Lemos and L. M. Rato (2003). Variable sampling adaptive control of a distributed collector solar field. IEEE Trans. Control Syst. Technol., 11(5):765-772. M. Barão, J. M. Lemos and R. N. Silva (2002). Reduced complexity adaptive nonlinear control of a distributed collector solar field. J. of Process Control. 12:131-141. J. S. Marques, J. M. Lemos and A. Abrantes (2002). A HMM approach to the stimation of random trajectories on manifolds. Signal Processing, 82:1205-1214.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100259; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://ramses.inesc.pt/People/jlml

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Name Luís Henrique Martins Borges de Almeida Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1983 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Source Separation, Independent Component

Analysis, Information-Theoretic Learning Research Topics My long-term research interests are the development of methods to learn the structure

of data in an unsupervised or lightly supervised way, and nonlinear signal processing. The two are strongly related, because most of the data that we deal with can be seen as signals, and the most interesting processing methods, including learning the data structure, are nonlinear. More specifically, I'm currently involved in methods to develop nonlinear processing systems according to information-theoretic criteria such as mutual information and entropy. I'm also pursuing my recent work on nonlinear source separation. Again, the two are related to each other. Another long-standing interest has been time-frequency and fractional Fourier analysis of signals. Although I haven't published anything in this area for several years, I keep some ideas in my mind, and they may produce interesting results sometime...

Best 5 papers L. B. Almeida, Nonlinear Source Separation, Synthesis Lectures on Signal Processing, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006. doi:10.2200/S00016ED1V01Y200602SPR002 L. B. Almeida, “Separating a Real-Life Nonlinear Image Mixture”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 6, pp. 1199-1232, 2005. L. B. Almeida, “Linear and Nonlinear ICA Based on Mutual Information – The MISEP Method”, Signal Processing, Vol. 84, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 231-245. L. B. Almeida, "The Fractional Fourier Transform and Time-Frequency Representations", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 1994. (My most-cited paper). J. S. Marques and L. B. Almeida, "Frequency Varying Sinusoidal Modelling of Speech", IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-37, May 1989. (This, together with several other papers on the same topic, some of which were co-authored with F. M. Silva, is the basis of the speech coding method currently used in some satellite phone systems).


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Name Maria Isabel Lobato de Faria Ribeiro Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1988, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Robotics, Mobile Robotics, Cooperative Robotics, Research Topics Research interests include indoor and outdoor land mobile robot navigation,

cooperative robotics, cooperative perception and navigation, control of multi-vehicle systems, mapping, world model representation.

Best 5 papers João Sequeira, M. Isabel Ribeiro, “A Semiotic Approach to the Control of Semi-Autonomous Robots”, Journal of Systems Science, special issue on Cooperative Control Approaches for Multiple Mobile Robots ,Taylor & Francis, (in press), 2006. Francisco Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro, “Transition Entropy in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes”, Proceedings of the 9th Intelligent Autonomous Systems Conference, IAS9, Tokyo, Japan, March 2006. João Sequeira, M. Isabel Ribeiro, “Robot Team Control: a Geometric Approach” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol.53, No.1, Outubro de 2005, pp.59-71. Francisco A. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro, Pedro Lima, “Navigation Controllability of a Mobile Robot Population”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3276, Mar 2005, Pages 499 – 507. João Sequeira, M. Isabel Ribeiro, “Hybrid control of semi-autonomous robots”, Proceedings do IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS2004, September 2004, Sendai, Japan, pp.1838-1844.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418059/289; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/homepage/ist11695

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Name Agostinho Cláudio da Rosa Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1990, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Biomedical Engineering and Evolutionary Computation Research Unit ISR Research Group Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab Keywords Biomedical Engineering, Evolutionary Computation, Meta-heuristics, Artificial Life,

Signal and Image Processing BioInformatics, Bio-inspired Algorithms, Swarm Computing, Semantic Web, E-learning.

Research Topics Bio-Engineering (Sleep research, Cognitive States Detection, Signal & Image Processing, Biological Models); Evolutionary Systems (Evolutionary Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Ecology, Swarm Intelligence); Computational Intelligence (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic & Evolutionary Algorithms); BioInformatics (Computational Biology); e-Learning, e-Business, Search Engines, Semantic Web.

Best 5 papers C Fernandes, A Rosa. Self-Adjusting the Intensity of Assortative Mating in Genetic Algorithms. J of Soft Computing. In Press. Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho Rosa. Evolutionary Algorithms with Dissortative Marting in Static and Dynamic Environments. In “Advances in Evolutionary Algorithms”, ISBN 978-3-902613-32-5. ARS Press, in press. Cristian Munteanu, Francisco Cabrera, and Agostinho C. Rosa. Enhancing Obstetric and Genecology Ultrasound Images by Adaptation of the Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion Filter. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, in press. Agostinho Rosa, Dalva Poyares, Walter Moraes, Fatima Cintra. Methodology in clinical sleep research. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 64 (2007) pp 1244-1253. Christian Guilleminault , M.Cecilia Lopes, Chad C Hagen, Agostinho da Rosa. The Cyclic Alternating Pattern Demonstrates Increased Sleep Instability and Correlates With Fatigue and Sleepiness in Adults with Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome. Sleep 2007, 30(5), pp 641-647.


- Meditron Electromedicina Ltda

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418276; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.laseeb.isr.ist.utl.pt/acrosa

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Name Jorge dos Santos Salvador Marques Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1990, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit ISR Research Group Signal and Image Processing Keywords Image processing, medical image analysis, pattern recognition, object tracking Research Topics I work in image processing and statistical signal processing.

I have worked in the following problems: - medical image analysis (ultrasound, MRI) - reconstruction of 3D volumes from ultrasound images - segmentation of medical images - video surveillance and tracking - human behaviour analysis - shape tracking in video sequences - manifold learning and dimensionality reduction - speech coding (old)

Best 5 papers Jacinto C. Nascimento, Jorge S. Marques, Robust Shape Tracking with Multiple Models in Ultrasound Images, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 17, 392-406, March 2008. G. Celeux, J. S. Marques, J. Nascimento, Learning Switching Dynamic Models for Objects Tracking, Pattern Recognition, vol. 37, nº9 , 1835-1840, September2004. J. Nascimento, J. S. Marques, Robust Shape Tracking in the Presence of Cluttered Background, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 6, no. 6, December, 2004. João M. Sanches, Jorge S. Marques, A Multi-Scale Algorithm for Three Dimensional Free Hand Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 28, 1029-1040, August 2002. A. J. Abrantes, J. S. Marques, A Class of Constrained Clustering Algorithms for Object Boundary Extraction, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 1507-1521, 1996. (most cited paper)


- Computer Vision Center, Barcelona - INRIA, University Paris-Sud - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418297; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jsm

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Name José Alberto Rosado dos Santos Victor Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1995, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab Keywords Computer and Robot Vision, Vision based control and navigation, biological inspired

computer vision. Research Topics My main research interests are in computer vision and in vision based robotics. I have

performed research in the areas of 3D reconstruction from images or on the estimation of the camera motion from the observation of a video sequence. In other cases, I have looked at the problem tracking moving objects with a single or multiple cameras. Recently, this work was complemented with learning or cognitive aspects. For example, we have built a video surveillance system that is able to characterize and recognize human activities. Vision is the main perceptual cue for many biological systems. Similarly, robots may rely extensively on the use of vision to perceive their surrounding spaces. I have worked on vision-based navigation of robots and this was applied to land, underwater and aerial robots. We have also designed special cameras (e.g. omnidirectional) inspired after the variety of eye geometries that we can find in nature. For the past 5 years we started working, together with groups in biology, psychology and neuroscience, in the area of humanoid robotics. We have built several prototypes and used them to study visual perception, learning or sensory-motor coordination. In most of these areas, there have been PhD theses already completed. In addition, this work is usually carried out in the framework of international projects.

Best 5 papers J. Gaspar, N. Winters, J. Santos-Victor, “Vision-based navigation and environmental representations with an omnidirectional camera,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and automation, Vol 16(6), Dez. 2000. C. Silva, J. Santos-Victor, “Motion from Occlusions,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, 5(3-4) Junho 2001. S. van der Zwaan, A. Bernardino, J. Santos-Victor, “Visual station keeping for floating robots in unstructured environments,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier), 39(3-4), Junho 2002. N. Gracias, S. van der Zwaan, A. Bernardino, J. Santos-Victor, “Mosaic Based Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Outubro 2003. M. Cabido Lopes, J. Santos-Victor, “Visual learning by imitation with motor representations,” aceite para publicação, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, June 2005.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418294; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jasv

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Name Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1994, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit ISR Research Group Intelligent Systems Keywords Multi-Robot Systems, Planning Under Uncertainty, Discrete-Event Systems,

Reinforcement Learning, Formation Control Research Topics I am generically interested in multi-robot systems, especially on bringing together

Systems and Control and Artificial Intelligence concepts with the purpose of planning and executing multi-robot tasks under uncertainty in the actions effects and state observations. In particular, I am looking at discrete-event-based models of robotic tasks, and how to fine tune them using reinforcement learning algorithms (related to MDPs and POMDPs). One related subject is formation control for teams of several robots, so that they keep their relative positions and orientations, while being deformable to take into account obstacles along the formation trajectory.

Best 5 papers Tabuada P., Pappas G. and Lima P., “Motion Feasibility of Multi-Agent Formations”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 21 (3), pp. 387-392, Junho de 2005. Tabuada P., Pappas G. and Lima P., “Compositional Abstractions of Hybrid Control Systems”, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, April 2004, Volume 14, Issue 2. D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, M. Athans, P. Lima, “Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution”, Journal of Non-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007 Milutinovic D., Lima P., "Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population", Vol. 22, Issue: 6, pp.1280-1285, 2006. D. Dumitriu, S. Marques, P. Lima, J. C. Bastante, J. Araújo, L. F. Peñin, A. Caramagno, B. Udrea, “Optimal Guidance and Decentralised State Estimation Applied to a Formation Flying Demonstration Mission in GTO”, IET, Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 1, Issue 2 , p. 443-552, March, 2007


- Skysoft - Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418274; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal

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Name António Manuel dos Santos Pascoal Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1987, University of Minnesota, MPLS, MN, USA Research Area Dynamical Systems and Marine Robotics Research Unit ISR Research Group Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Laboratory Keywords Control Theory, Navigation, Guidance and Control of Autonomous Vehicles,

Cooperative Navigation and Motion Control of Multiple Marine Vehicles for Scientific Applications.

Research Topics Over the past years, he has participated actively in the design, development, and operation of prototype marine robots, including autonomous surface craft and underwater vehicles. He has coordinated several European projects aimed at bridging the gap between marine science and technology. His research interests include linear and nonlinear robust control theory, integrated design of navigation, guidance and control systems, combined plant/controller optimization, and coordination motion control of multiple vehicles with applications to the operation of air and marine robots. His long term goal is to contribute to the development of advanced tools for ocean exploration and exploitation. He is also interested in the history of science, animal navigation and locomotion, and the application of marine robots to underwater archaeology.

Best 5 papers 1. A . Aguiar, J. Hespanha, A. Pascoal, “Switched Seesaw Control for the Stabilization of Underactuated Vehicles,” IFAC Journal Automatica, Volume 43, Issue 12, pp. 1997-2142, Dec. 2007. 2. A. Aguiar, António Pascoal, “Dynamic Positioning and Way-Point Tracking of Underactuated AUVs in the Presence of Ocean Currents,” International Journal of Control, Vol. 80, No. 7, pp. 1092-1108, 2007. 3. Alex Alcocer, Paulo Oliveira, António Pascoal, “Study and Implementation of an EKF GIB-based Underwater Positioning System,” IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 689-701, Elsevier, 2007. 4. A. Pascoal, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira. Vehicle and Mission Control of Single and Multiple Autonomous Marine Robots. In Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles, IEE Control Engineering Series, G. Roberts and R. Sutton (Eds), pp. 353-386, 2006. 5. Sajjad Fekri, Michael Athans, and Antonio Pascoal, “Issues, Progress and New Results in Robust Adaptive Control,” International Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 20, pp. 519-579, 2006.


- RINAVE (PT) - IFREMER (FR) - ATLAS (GER) - SEEBYTE (UK) - System Technologies (UK)

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418051/081; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt (Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Laboratory)

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Name Isabel Maria Gonçalves Lourtie Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1988, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit ISR Research Group Signal and Image Processing Keywords Research Topics Statistical signal processing. Time-frequency analysis. Time delay estimation.

Detection and Classification Best 5 papers Isabel M. G. Lourtie, José M. F. Moura, “Multisource Delay Estimation:

Nonstationary Signals”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 1033-1048, May 1991. Isabel M. G. Lourtie, G. Clifford Carter, “Signal Detectors for Random Ocean Media”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 1420-1427, September 1992. Francisco M. Garcia, Isabel M. G. Lourtie, “Estimation of Locally Stationarity Covariance matrices from Data”, International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, 2003. Francisco M. Garcia, Isabel M. G. Lourtie, “Detection of Transient Signals with Unknown Localization”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.11, no.9, pp.713-716, September 2004. J. Buescu, A.C. Paixão, F. Garcia, I. Lourtie, “Positive-Definiteness, Integral Equations and Fourier Transform”, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 33-52, September 2004.


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Name Alexandre José Malheiro Bernardino Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Computer and Robot Vision Research Unit ISR Research Group VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab Keywords Computer Vision, Robotics, Control Research Topics My main research interests are the development of real-time artificial vision methods

for applications in robot control and surveillance, including both the low-level (tracking, filtering, visual servoing) and high-level aspects (decision, learning, development). To allow real-time operation, some complexity management mechanisms must be considered. In particular, I've been interested in how the human visual system deals with complexity both by morphological design (space-variant retina) and by cognitive development (attentional mechanisms). Being a multi-disciplinary area, it benefits not only from contributions from the exact sciences (mathematics, engineering, computer science), but also from biology, neurosciences and psychological sciences, where connections have been established along the years.

Best 5 papers Alexandre Bernardino and José Santos-Victor, "Fast Isotropic 2D Complex Gabor Filters for Image Analysis", accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2006. Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino, Jose Santos-Victor, earning Object Affordances: From Sensory Motor Maps to Imitation, EEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Bio-Robotics, Vol 24(1) Feb 2008. José Melo, Andrew Naftel, Alexandre Bernardino and José Santos-Victor, "Detection and Classification of Highway Lanes using Vehicle Motion Trajectories", accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Nuno Gracias, Sjoerd van der Zwaan, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "Mosaic Based Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2003. Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "Binocular Visual Tracking: Integration of Perception and Control", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, (15)6, 1999.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418293; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~alex

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Name Ana Luísa Nobre Fred Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1994 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Communication Theory and Pattern Recognition, Networks and Multimedia

Research Area Keywords Pattern recognition, statistical models, syntactic models, hybrid methods, supervised

learning, clustering, classifier combination, ensemble methods in clustering, data mining, signal processing, behavioral biometrics, affective computing, biomedical app

Research Topics The main research topic is pattern recognition, including statistical, structural, and hybrid approaches. Grammatical models, and Hidden Markov Models constitute examples of structural approaches. Hybrid methods bridge the gap between statistical and structural approaches, either by means of adequate choice of similarity measures (such as kernel-based methods), or by the use of hybrid pattern representations (such as attributed symbols). Special emphasis is put in learning techniques and algorithms (supervised methods - assuming known class labels, or unsupervised methods – for data mining), in particular the recent trend in fusion of information, known as classifier combination and ensemble methods, respectively in the supervised and unsupervised approaches. The application of these techniques to real world problems, namely biomedical applications, motivates the connection with other research areas, namely signal processing, information theory, and artificial intelligence. Examples of biomedical applications previously accomplished or ongoing: automatic sleep analysis; decision support systems for automatic diagnosis; study of the mechanical load applied to the musculoskeletal system associated with human motion. Most recent research explores multimodality in behavioral biometrics and the characterization of emotional states (based on electrophysiological data and interaction with the computer) aiming at the design of personalized interaction systems. Currently collaborates in the International PhD Program – SIGNAL (http://est-signal.i3s.unice.fr), where the above themes are also present.

Best 5 papers A. L. Fred, A. K. Jain, Combining Multiple Clusterings Using Evidence Accumulation, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 27, No 6, pp 835-850, 2005. H. Gamboa, A. Fred, A Behavioural Biometric System Based on Human Computer Interaction, Proc. of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium on Biometric Technology for Human Identification, SPIE vol 5404, 2004. A. L. Fred, J. Leitão, A New Cluster Isolation Criterion Based on Dissimilarity Increments, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 25, No 8, pp 944-958, 2003. A. L. Fred. Similarity Measures and Clustering of String Patterns. In Pattern Recognition and String Matching, Dechang Chen and Xiuzhen Cheng (Eds), Kluwer Academic, 2002. A. L. Fred, J. Filipe, M. Partinen, T. Paiva, PSG-Expert: An Expert System for the Diagnosis of Sleep Disorders, in European Neurological Network, T. Paiva, T. Penzel (Eds), Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, IOS Press, 78:127-147, 2000.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418469; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.lx.it.pt/~afred/anawebit/

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Name Carlos Filipe Gomes Bispo Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1997, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie

Mellon University Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group ISLab - Intelligent Systems Lab Keywords Queuing Networks, Inventory Control, Scheduling, Optimal Control. Research Topics Research Interests - My main interests lie on the determination of classes of decision

policies for networks of queues that insure them to be stable. The main tools used are Markov Decision Processes and Infinitesimal. Perturbations Analysis. In the area of Inventory Control I intend to derive processes to determine non strict priorities for decision problems in the context of multi-product with capacity bounds. In the area of Scheduling I have specific interests in Train Traffic Management for low traffic segments. In Optimal Control I intend to work on decentralized methodologies for large dimension problems with specific applications to networks of channels and reservoirs for water distribution. There are also interests on the application of operations management tools and methodologies to specific portuguese contexts, like the national health system, the justice system, and the public administration in general, with particular emphasis on local governement.

Best 5 papers C. Bispo, S. Tayur, Managing simple re-entrant flow lines: theoretical foundation and experimental results, IIE Transactions, August 2001. L. Custódio, J. Sentieiro & C. Bispo, Production planning and scheduling using a fuzzy decision system, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, April 1994. C. Bispo, J. Sentieiro, R. Hibberd, Adaptive scheduling for high-volume shops, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, December 1992. C. Bispo, Stability of re-entrant flow lines, Submitted to the Journal of Applied Probability, Under revision, January 2006. J. Moreira, C. Bispo, Distributed scheduling with active idleness, Submitted to Queuing Systems, January 2006.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418282; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~cfb

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Name Carlos Jorge Ferreira Silvestre Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2000 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Guidance and Control of Autonomous Vehicles, Linear Control, Nonlinear Control,

Discrete Event Systems, Mission Control Systems. Research Topics Carlos Silvestre has conducting research in the past years on the subjects of vehicle

and mission control of air and underwater robots. His research interests include linear and nonlinear control theory, coordinated control of multiple vehicles, gain scheduled control, integrated design of guidance and control systems, inertial navigation systems, and mission control and real time architectures for complex autonomous systems with applications to unmanned air and underwater vehicles. Currently particular emphasis is placed in the following topics: -Sensor based control for autonomous vehicles: Develop control laws that can react directly to sensor data in real time. The envisioned control strategies will consist of converting the motion control problem into that of driving to zero a generalized error, defined in a suitable sensor set error space. –Trajectory tracking and path following controllers for extended flight envelope maneuvers: Study control strategies that can drive autonomous vehicles along arbitrary trajectories and paths. The theoretical tools required to address these problems borrow from nonlinear and hybrid control system theory. -Real time distributed architectures for mission and vehicle control: Study and develop embedded vehicle real time architectures that simplify the task of performing the concerted operation of the different systems resident on board autonomous vehicles.

Best 5 papers C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, I. Kaminer, “On the Design of Gain-Scheduled Trajectory Tracking Controllers”, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 12, pp. 797-839, 2002. C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Control of the INFANTE AUV using gain scheduled static output feedback”, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 12&12, pp.1501-1509, 2004. Reza Ghabcheloo, António Pascoal, Carlos Silvestre, “Nonlinear Coordinated Path Following Control of Multiple Wheeled Robots with Communication Constraints”, aceite na 12th International Conference on Advanced obotics, ICAR 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA, Julho 18 a 20, 2005. Nuno Paulino, Carlos Silvestre, Rita Cunha, “Terrain Following Controller for Affine Parameter-Dependent Systems: An Application to Model-Scale Helicopters”, aceite na AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, São Francisco, Califórnia, EUA, Agosto 2005. J. F. Vasconcelos, P. Oliveira, Carlos Silvestre, “Inertial Navigation System Aided by GPS and Selective Frequency Contents of Vector Measurements”, aceite na AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, São Francisco, Califórnia, EUA, Agosto 2005.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418052; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~cjs

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Name Eduardo José Ramos Morgado Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1989, New University of Lisbon Research Area Nanoscience, microtechnology & materials Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Semiconductor materials and devices, thin films, optical properties, electrical

properties, optoelectronics, photovoltaics Research Topics Current research is in the area of Thin Film Semiconductors and devices for

Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics. Relations between the electronic density of states and the opto-electrical properties of amorphous/microcrystalline semiconductors are investigated, via experimental characterisation and modelling. Recombination models for amorphous semiconductors have been developed. A particular research topic is the light- and radiation-induced degradation of hydrogenated amorphous Silicon and other thin film materials, a phenomenon that limits device performance. Several characterisation techniques have been implemented and are available for the study of defect states, majority- and minority-carrier transport and recombination, in amorphous/microcrystalline, organic/inorganic, semiconductors and devices, including Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy (PDS), Constant Photocurrent Method (CPM), Steady State Photocarrier Grating (SSPG), Spectral Photocurrent (SPC).

Best 5 papers P. Queiroz, R. Ayouchi, M. Niehus, E. Morgado, A. Fedorov, J. Martinho, F. Wuensch, M. Kunst and R. Schwarz , “Photoinduced Excess Carrier Dynamics in PLD-Grown ZnO”, Superlattices and Microstructures 42 (2007) 270-277. E. Morgado, R. Schwarz, T. Braz, C. Casteleiro, A. Maçarico, M. Vieira and E. Alves, “Radiation-induced defects in a-Si:H by 1.5 MeV He4 particles studied by photoconductivity and photothermal deflection spectroscopy”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 352 (2006) pp. 1071-1074. E. Morgado, “Influence of light-soaking and annealing on electron and hole mobility-lifetime products in a-Si:H”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 338-340 (2004) pp. 386-389. M. Vieira, A. Maçarico, E. Morgado, S. Koynov, R. Schwarz, "A two dimensional visible/infrared detector based on microcrystalline Si:H p-i-n structure", Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 227-230 (1998) pp. 1311-1315. E. Morgado, "Recombination at correlated dangling-bonds and the effects of Fermi level position on steady-state photoconductivity in amorphous silicon", Philosophical Magazine B, Vol. 63 (1991) pp. 529-542.


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Name João Fernando Cardoso Silva Sequeira Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1999, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Technology Management & Innovation Research Unit ISR Research Group Mobile Robotics Lab Keywords Robotics Applications, Cooperative Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction Research Topics Robot kinematics. Hybrid locomotion schemes and parallel manipulators. Control

architectures for cooperative robotics. Properties of the basis building blocks in an architecture. Performance and stability. Networked robotics. Human-robot interaction. Human-Robot interfaces. Relations with models of human interactions.

Best 5 papers Luís Tavares, João Sequeira, RIOL-Robotic Inspection Over Power Lines, Procs of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV07, Toulouse, France, September 2007, João Sequeira, Measuring motion expressiveness in wheeled mobile robots, Procs. of the European Robotics Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic March 2008 Joao Sequeira, Isabel Ribeiro, A Semiotic Approach to the Control of Semi-Autonomous Robots, International Journal of Systems Science, Taylor & Francis Group publishers, 37(6):361-376, May 2006. Joao Sequeira, Isabel Ribeiro, Robot Team Control: A Geometric Approach, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, No. 4, Vol. 53 (Pag. 59 - 71), Elsevier August 2005. Joao Sequeira, Isabel Ribeiro, Hybrid Control of Semi-Autonomous Robots, 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS2004 (Pag. 1838 - 1844), Sendai, Japan October 2004 Pedro Cruz, Ricardo Ferreira, Joao Sequeira, Kinematic Modeling of Stewart-Gough Platforms, 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (Pag. 93 - 99), Barcelona, Spain September 2005 Mário Florêncio, Pedro Agostinho, João Sequeira, Automatic Parallel Parking of Car-Like Robots, 37th International Symposium on Robotics, ISR 2006, Munich, Germany, May 2006


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Name João Manuel de Freitas Xavier Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Processamento estatístico de sinal, geometria diferencial, optimização Research Topics My main research area is signal processing on manifolds. This includes modeling,

filtering, parametric estimation bounds, Riemannian centroid computation, manifold learning, smooth and nonsmooth optimization, etc.

Best 5 papers J. Xavier and Jonathan H. Manton, "On the generalization of AR processes to Riemannian manifolds", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP'06, Toulouse, France, May 2006 R. Ferreira, J. Xavier, J. P. Costeira and V. Barroso, "Newton method for Riemannian centroid computation in naturally reductive homogeneous spaces", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP'06, Toulouse, France, May 2006 M. Beko, J. Xavier and V. Barroso, "Codebook design for non-coherent communication in multiple-antenna systems", IEEE International Conferenceon Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP'06, Toulouse, France, May 2006 J. Xavier, V. Barroso and J. M. F. Moura, "Closed-form Correlative Coding (CFC2) Blind Identification of MIMO Channels: Isometry Fitting to Second-Order Statistics", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1073-1086, May 2001 J. Xavier and V. Barroso, "Intrinsic variance lower bound (IVLB): an extension of the Cramer-Rao bound to Riemannian manifolds", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP'05, Philadelphia, USA, May 2005

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418296; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jxavier/

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Name João Miguel Raposo Sanches Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Medical imaging, Biological imaging, 3D reconstruction, Ultrasound, Confocal

microscopy, Microarray data analysis. Research Topics 3D ultrasound: 3D reconstruction from freehand or mechanical scanning ultrasound

images Confocal microscopy: 3D reconstruction of the cell from fluorescence confocal microscopy images and dynamical transport and flow processes inside the cell. Bayesian reconstruction: Observation statistical models and edge preserving priors.

Best 5 papers J. Sanches, J.S. Marques, Image Reconstruction using the Benford Law, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2006, Atlanta, GA, USA , October 2006. J. Sanches, J. Bioucas Dias, J.S. Marques J.S., Minimum Total Variation In 3d Ultrasound Reconstruction, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2005, Genova, Italy , September 2005. J. Sanches, J.S. Marques, A Fast MAP Algorithm Using High Order GIBBS Priors, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005. J. Sanches, J.S. Marques, A MAP estimation algorithm using IIR recursive filters, Proceedings International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2003 J. Sanches, J.S. Marques, Compensation of Log-Compressed Images for 3D Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol.29, No.2, pp.239-253, 2003. J. Sanches, J.S. Marques, Joint Image Registration and Volume Reconstruction for 3D Ultrasound, Special Issue on 3D Ultrasound, Pattern Recognition Letters 24(2003) 791-800.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418195; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jmrs

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Name João Paulo da Silva Neto Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1998, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group L2F - Spoken Language Systems Lab Keywords Speech Recognition, Automatic Transcription Systems, Semantic Processing of

Multimedia Information, Spoken Interfaces for Dialogue Systems Research Topics Our research is being developed along two main lines: the semantic processing of

multimedia information and the development of spoken dialogue systems. In the *semantic processing of multimedia information* line we have been working in the development of techniques for characterizing the acoustic signal extracted from multimedia data. With this characterization we are able to generate metadata to represent the contents of that data. This metadata can be represented semantically in order to generate an adequate indexing and access to the multimedia information. In this characterization we generate information as speech/non-speech, background, and speaker gender segment classification, we transcribe speaker turn segments through our /AUDIMUS.//MEDIA/ speech recognition system, and we are using acoustic and prosodic cues to help segmenting the transcriptions in sentences. In the development of *spoken dialogue systems* our specific aim is to build multimodal input interface to the system. In our laboratory we have been working on base technologies, as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). We developed a Synthetic Talking Face platform that it is closed integrated with these base technologies. Also we have been working on generic Spoken Dialogue Systems, integrating these base technologies.

Best 5 papers João Neto, H. Meinedo, M. Viveiros, R. Cassaca, C. Martins, D. Caseiro, "Broadcast News Subtitling System in Portuguese", in Proceedings of ICASSP 2008, las Vegas, USA, 2008. Ciro Martins, António Teixeira, João Neto, "Dynamic Language Modeling for a Daily Broadcast News Transcription System", in Proceedings of ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan, 2007. Rui Amaral, Hugo Meinedo, Diamantino Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso, João Neto, "A Prototype System for Selective Dissemination of Broadcast News in European Portuguese", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Ed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation, May, 2007. Hugo Meinedo, João Neto, "A Stream-based Audio Segmentation, ClassifiCation and Clustering Pre-processing System for Broadcast News using ANN Models", Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisboa, Portugal, 2005. J. Neto, H. Meinedo, R. Amaral and Isabel Trancoso, "The development of an automatic system for selective dissemination of multimedia information", Proceedings of Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Rennes, France, 2003.


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Name João Paulo Salgado Arriscado Costeira Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1995 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab Keywords Research Topics Visão por computador, Visão Estereo, Reconstrução tridimensional, Processamento

digital de sequencias de video. Best 5 papers J. Maciel, J. Costeira – A Global Solution to Sparse Correspondence Problems. IEEE

Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25 (2), February 2003 J. Costeira, T. Kanade “A Multibody Factorization Method for Independent Moving Objects”, International Journal on Computer Vision 29(3),pp. 159-179, Set 1998 Ricardo Oliveira, Ricardo Ferreira, Joao P. Costeira, Optimal Multi-Frame Correspondence with Assignment Tensors, European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV2006, springer Verlag R. Oliveira, J. Costeira, J. Xavier - "Optimal Point Correspondence Throughthe Use of Rank Constraints, IEEE-CVPR2005, San Diego,


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Name João Pedro Castilho Pereira Santos Gomes Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Signal Processing Lab Keywords Signal processing for communications, channel identification and equalization,

underwater acoustics Research Topics Channel estimation and equalization in underwater acoustic channels and other

severely dispersive transmission media: The research focuses on (i) equalization algorithms that can cope with intersymbol interference spanning hundreds of symbol intervals, and (ii) compensation of channel variations caused by differential Doppler in multipath propagation. Fast and numerically stable algorithms for adaptive filtering: RLS lattice filters are of particular interest, as their modular structure and excellent numerical properties make them well suited for real-time implementation in hardware and fixed-point DSPs. Array processing methods in underwater acoustics: Exploit the physics of sound propagation in ocean waveguides to achieve seamless multipath compensation. MIMO coherent communication with strong multipath. Joint communication and model-based tracking. Wireless underwater networks: Communication protocols must cope with high transmit latency and low link reliability. Genomic signal processing: Dimensionality reduction with scarce, high-dimensionality data snapshots. Statistical inference in gene regulatory networks.

Best 5 papers J. Gomes, V. Barroso, "Directivity analysis of time-reversal arrays in a simple ocean waveguide," in Proceedings of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’06), Florence, Italy, September 2006. J. Gomes, V. Barroso, "MIMO decision-feedback equalization with direct channel estimation," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC’04), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2004. J. Gomes, V. Barroso, "QR-RLS adaptation of modular multichannel lattice filters," in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele’03), Aveiro, Portugal, June 2003. J. Gomes, V. Barroso, G. Ayela, and P. Coince, "The ASIMOV acoustic communication system," Sea Technology, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 47-50, May 2001. J. Gomes, V. Barroso, "A super-exponential algorithm for blind fractionally-spaced equalization," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 283-285, October 1996.


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Name José António da Cruz Pinto Gaspar Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Computer and Robot Vision Research Unit ISR Research Group VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab Keywords Computer and Robot Vision, Omnidirectional Vision, Mobile Robot Navigation Research Topics Research interests in the areas of Computer and Robot Vision, specially in the fields

of 3D information recovery, Obstacle detection and Visual self-localisation for mobile robots. Worked/working areas: Omnidirectional Vision; Mobile Robots' Visual Self-Localisation and Navigation; Ground plane obstacle detection (GPOD); Surface reconstruction; Stereo matching based on Edge Features.

Best 5 papers On the use of perspective catadioptric sensors for 3D model-based tracking with particle filters, M. Tajana, J. Gaspar, J. Nascimento, A. Bernardino and P. Lima, IEEE-IROS'2007. Toward Robot Perception through Omnidirectional Vision, José Gaspar, Niall Winters, Etienne Grossmann and José Santos-Victor, chapter in book "Innovations in Intelligent Machines - 1", Springer 2007, pp223-270 Cooperative localization by fusing vision-based bearing measurements and motion, Luis Montesano, José Gaspar, José Santos-Victor, Luis Montano, IROS 2005, Alberta, Canada, August 2-6, 2005, Page(s):2333 - 2338 Constant Resolution Omnidirectional Cameras, José Gaspar, Cláudia Deccó, Jun Okamoto Jr, José Santos-Victor, Omnivis'02 Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision (in conjunction with ECCV 2002), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2002, pp27-34 Vision-based Navigation and Environmental Representations with an Omnidirectional Camera, José Gaspar, Niall Winters, José Santos-Victor, IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Vol 16, number 6, December 2000


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Name Luís Manuel Marques Custódio Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1997 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Multi-Robot Systems, Emotion-based

Agents, Cooperative Learning Research Topics Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on multi-agent systems, either virtual (e.g., web

agents) or with a physical body (e.g., robots), and special interests on knowledge representation and reasoning, organizational issues, distributed decision making and social relations.

Best 5 papers Pedro Lima, Luís Custódio, Artificial Intelligence and Systems Theory Applied to Cooperative Robots, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, No. 3, 2004. Constança Sousa, Luís Custódio, Cooperative Reinforcement Learning: Exploring Communication and Cooperation Problems, Proc. CIRA 2005 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Espoo, Finland, 2005. Vasco Pires, Miguel Arroz, Luís Custódio, Logic Based Hybrid Decision System for a Multi-robot Team, Proc. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2004. Bruno Damas, Luís Custódio, Emotion-Based Decision and Learning Using Associative Memory and Statistical Estimation, INFORMATICA, an International Journal of Computing and Informatics, Special Issue on Perception and Emotion Based Reasoning, Vol. 27, pp. 147-157, 2003. Márcia Maçãs, Luís Custódio, Multiple Emotion-Based Agents using an Extension of DARE Architecture, INFORMATICA, an International Journal of Computing and Informatics, Special Issue on Perception and Emotion Based Reasoning, Vol. 27, pp. 185-195, 2003


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Name Luís Miguel Veiga Vaz Caldas de Oliveira Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1997, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit INESC-ID Research Group Spoken Language Systems (L2F) Keywords Speech and Language Processing, Speech Production and Synthesis. Research Topics My main area of research is speech processing, specifically speech production and

synthesis with special emphasis on applications to European Portuguese. Speech processing is a very multidisciplinary research area whose goal is to develop systems with which a person can interact naturally, in her own language, using the full range of linguistic, para-linguistic and non-linguistic information conveyed in the speech signal. This requires large amounts of linguistic resources for the given language and that was part of the work performed by myself and others at the speech group of INESC during the late 90's. The current focus is now on speech-to-speech translation systems and spoken dialogue systems with multi-modal interfaces using digital agents modelled as human-like characters exhibiting personality and emotion. This advanced applications imposes new domains in the speech production process, namely the modeling of emotive and spontaneous speech. My current research interests include automatic multi-level speech annotation for speech synthesis using variable-length units and voice source modification for emotional speech synthesis.

Best 5 papers Sérgio G. Paulo and Luis C. Oliveira, Generation of Word Alternative Pronunciations Using Weighted Finite State Transducers, Interspeech 2005, Sep. 2005. João Cabral and Luis C. Oliveira, Pitch-Synchronous Time-Scaling for High-Frequency Excitation Regeneration, Interspeech 2005, Sep. 2005. Sérgio Manuel Gaspar Ferreira Paulo and Luis C. Oliveira, DTW-based Phonetic Alignment Using Multiple Acoustic Features, EUROSPEECH´2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech communication and Technology, Sep. 2003. M. C. Viana and Luis C. Oliveira and A. I. Mata, Prosodic Phrasing: Machine and Human Evaluation, International Journal of Speech Technology, 6(1), pp. 83-94, Jan. 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers. L. C. Oliveira. Text-to-speech synthesis with dynamic control of source parameters. In J. van Santen, R. Sproat, J. Olive, e J. Hirschberg, editors, Progress in Speech Synthesis. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996. URL

Contacts Tel: (+351) 213100355/4233546; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http.//www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/~lco http://www.springer-ny.com/Catalog/np/may96np/DATA/0-387-94701-9.html

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Name Maria Margarida Campos da Silveira Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Image and vídeo processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, medical imaging Research Topics My research interests are in the area of image processing, computer vision, pattern

recognition and medical imaging. I am currently interested in the problem of the segmentation of multiple objects using deformable models (snakes), both 2D and 3D. The main difficulties that I am trying to overcome are the estimation of the number of models, the robustness to outliers and the problem of the models initialization. The techniques that I am developing are very promising for the segmentation of human organs in medical images of different modalities.

Best 5 papers Margarida Silveira, Jorge S. Marques, “Multiple Active Contour Models based on the EM algorithm”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2005, Genova, Italy, September 2005. Margarida Silveira, “An Algorithm for the Detection of Multiple Concentric Circles”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science – Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2005, Vol. 35223, pp. 271-278, Estoril, Portugal, June 2005. Margarida Silveira, “Antibacterial Activity Detection and Evaluation based on the Detection of Multiple Concentric Circles with the Hough Transform”, Canadian conference on Computer and Robot Vision, pp. 329-335, Ontario, Canada, May 2004. Margarida Silveira, Moisés Piedade, "MRF�Based Motion Segmentation with Dominant Motion Estimation and the Detection of Uncovered Regions”, pp. 373�367, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2001. Margarida Silveira, Moisés Piedade, "Joint Segmentation and Motion Estimation" International Conference on Image Processing, TP05.06, Chicago, USA, October 1998.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418297; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~msilveira/

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Name Paulo Jorge Coelho Ramalho Oliveira Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Robotics, Estimation, and Automation Research Unit ISR Research Group Dynamic Systems and Ocean Robotics Lab Keywords Autonomous Vehicles, Navigation, Positioning, Sensor Fusion, Discrete Event

Systems and Automation. Research Topics Recent advances in micro-electronics, computers, energy storage and transformation

systems and materials fostered the development of Robotic Autonomous Vehicles. These vehicles operating in hostile environments for the humans, from the bottom of the seas to aerial and aerospace applications, are nowadays carrying out more and more complex missions. My research is in the Autonomous Robotics field with focus on the study, development, implementation, and validation of new methodologies i) for the synthesis and analysis of Positioning and Navigation Systems and ii) for the development of advanced Sensor Fusion techniques, and iii) for application of classical tools to new challenges. Resorting from the Wiener and Kalman techniques to the most up to date filtering techniques, such as the Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs), Linear Parameter Varying (LPVs), backstepping, and linear and nonlinear optimization techniques, estimation, filtering and smoothing problems are formulated and solved. The design and implementation of a Terrain Based Navigation System for Underwater Autonomous Vehicles and of an Inertial Navigation System, based on GPS and on inertial data, for autonomous helicopters are examples of recent work.

Best 5 papers Oliveira P., “MMAE terrain reference navigation for underwater vehicles using PCA,” International Journal of Control, special number on Navigation, guidance and control of uninhabited underwater vehicles, vol. 80, nº 7, pp.1008-1017, July 2007 Alcocer A., Oliveira P. e Pascoal A., “Study and Implementation of an EKF GIB-based Underwater Positioning System,” IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier Ed., vol 15, nº 6, pp.689-701, June 2007 <http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/people/index.asp?accao=showpeople&id_people=47> Pascoal A., Silvestre C. e Oliveira P., “Vehicle and Mission Control of Single and Multiple Autonomous Marine Robots,” Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicle (Roberts, G. N. and Sutton, R. (Ed)). ISBN 0-86341-450-8. IEE Control Series 69. pp. 353-386, January 2006 <http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/people/index.asp?accao=showpeople&id_people=47> Vasconcelos J.F., Silvestre C. e Oliveira P., “Nonlinear Observer for Rigid Body Attitude Estimation using Vector Observations,” 17th IFAC World Congress, Seul, Korea, July 2008 Batista P., Silvestre C. e Oliveira P., “Kalman and H∞ Optimal Filtering for a Class of Kinematic Systems,” aceite no 17th IFAC World Congress, Seul, Korea, Julho de 2008.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418053; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pjcro/indexi.html <http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/%7Epjcro/indexi.html>

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Name Pedro Manuel Quintas Aguiar Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2000, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit ISR Research Group Signal and Image Processing Keywords Multimedia Signal Processing Research Topics The ultimate goal of my research is to make computers capture the third dimension by

seeking the simplest interpretation of a video clip. I am mainly interested in statistical and information-theoretic models for computer vision and image analysis, as well as in efficient algorithms to perform inference with respect to those models. Application areas are in virtual reality --- automatic generation of unseen panoramic views and complete 3D-models --- and digital video --- content-based representations suitable for compression, addressing, and nonlinear editing. Besides image analysis, my other research interests include machine learning, statistical signal processing, and nonlinear systems.

Best 5 papers A. Martins, P. Aguiar, and M. Figueiredo, "Orientation in Manhattan: Equiprojective Classes and Sequential Estimation", IEEE Trans. on Pattern analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27(5), May 2005. P. Aguiar and J. Moura, "Figure-Ground Segmentation from Occlusion", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 14(8), August 2005. C. Lopes and P. Aguiar, "Acoustic Modems for Ubiquitous Computing", IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2(3), July-Sep. 2003. P. Aguiar and J. Moura, "Rank 1 Weighted Factorization for 3D Structure Recovery: Algorithms and Performance Analysis", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(9), Sep. 2003. J. Sobrinho, J. Dias e P. Aguiar, "O M(in)istério da Educação: ou o Problema da Colocação dos Docentes 2004/2005". Revista Ingenium, Março 2005.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418283; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~aguiar

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Name Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura Teaching Unit: SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group ISLab - Intelligent Systems Lab Keywords Artificial Intelligence, Emotion-based Agents, Robotics Research Topics Best 5 papers Rodrigo Ventura and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira. Emotion-based agents. In Proceedings

AAAI-98, page 1204. AAAI, AAAI Press and The MIT Press, 1998. Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Pedro Lima, and Carlos Pinto- Ferreira. Socrob — a society of cooperative mobile robots. In Proc. of 1998 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. IEEE, 1998. Rodrigo Ventura and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira. Generating and refining causal models for an emotion-based agent. In Eva Hudlicka and Dolores Cañamero, editors, Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross- Disciplinary Foundations, pages 146–149. AAAI Press, 2004. Rodrigo Ventura and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira. From reactive to emotion- based agents: a prescriptive model. In Robert Trappl, editor, Cybernetics and Systems 2000, pages 757–761, Wien, 2002. Rodrigo Ventura and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira. Metric adaptation and representation upgrade in an emotion-based agent model. In Ana Paiva, Rui Prada, and Rosalind W. Picard, editors, Affective Computing and Intel ligent Interaction: Second International Conference (ACII2007), LNCS 4738, pages 731–732. Springer, 2007. Carlos Marques, João Cristóvão, Paulo Alvito, Pedro Lima, João Frazão, Maria Isabel Ribeiro, Rodrigo Ventura. A Search and Rescue Robot with Tele-Operated Tether Docking System. Industrial Robot, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Vol. 34, No.4, pp. 332-338, 2007.


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Name Afonso Manuel dos Santos Barbosa Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1984 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Electromagnetic Wave Theory, Guided Wave Propagation, Complex Media Research Topics Electromagnetic wave theory and applications with emphasis on guided wave

propagation and passive guided wave structures for microwave, millimeter wave and optical frequencies; electromagnetic wave propagation in structures with complex media, chiral and double negative media.

Best 5 papers S. A. Matos, C.R.Paiva, J.R.Canto and A.M.Barbosa, `` New Physical Effects at an Air-Pseudochiral Omega Interface: Surface Polaritons and Proper Leaky-Modes´´, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, accepted for publication, 2006 A.L.Topa, C.R. Paiva, and A.M.Barbosa, `` Least Squares Boundary Residual Method for the Analysis of Step Discontinuities in Open Chiral Waveguides´´, AËU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 281-291, July, 2001 A.L.Topa, C.R.Paiva, and A.M. Barbosa, `` Complete Spectral Representation for the Electromagnetic Field of Planar Multilayered Waveguides Containing Pseudochiral Omega Media´´ , Chapter in Advances in Progress in Electromagnetic Research, J.A.Kong, EMW Publishing, Massachussets, 1998 C. A. Fernandes, and A.M.Barbosa, `` Analysis of the Radiation from a Class of Finite-Length Structures Using the Wiener-Hopf Formulation: Application to a Multifilar Helix´´, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 909-931, June, 1994 C.R.Paiva and A.M.Barbosa, `` A Linear Operator Formalism for the Analysis of Inhomogeneous Biisotropic Planar Waveguides´´, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol.40, no.1, pp.672-678,


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Name António Simão de Carvalho Fernandes Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1977, University of Surrey, UK Research Area Technology Management & Innovation Research Unit CEG-IST Research Group Keywords Economics, Engineering, Technology, Knowledge, Productivity, Value, Growth. Research Topics Contribution to economic growth of knowledge, technology, capital and Engineering.

Concepts’ definitions and economic modelling. Value creation and destruction and its co-relation with investment and consumption. Knowledge – Value co-relation.

Best 5 papers Fernandes, António S. C.,“To teach engineering value: an introduction to a special issue”, European Journal for Engineering Education, vol 29-3, 2004, pp. 315-341. Fernandes, António S. C. (Guest editor) (2004). Special Issue: Educating Engineers for Adding Value. European Journal for Engineering Education, vol 29-3. Fernandes, António S. C., “Technology nourished development”, Proceedings of IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, IEMC-2004, Singapore, October, vol. 1, pp. 224-28. Fernandes, António S. C. ,“Firm’s Core Strategy for Sustainable Growth”, Proceedings of IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, IEMC-2005, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, vol. 2, pp. 456-60. Fernandes, António S. C , Mais Conhecimento e Tecnologia para Desenvolver a Economia Portuguesa. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007. 620 pages.


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Name Carlos António Cardoso Fernandes Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1990, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Radio, Microwave and Millimetre Waves Keywords Millimetrewave and Microwave Antennas, Mobile communications, Radiowave

Propagation, Microwave Measurement Systems, Metamaterials Research Topics Research interests span through the following complementary areas of

electromagnetic waves applications: antenna design, pasive microwave and millimeter wave devices, radio wave propagation modeling in complex environments, microwave measurements and numerical modeling. The focus on antennas and propagation modeling is directed mainly to mobile communication applications. Work is being developed in relation with ultra wide band, multiple band and electronic reconfiguration antenna concepts. In millimeter waves, work on antennas is related to beam shaping for broadband mobile or ultra wideband space applications, based on lens antenna concept. In radio propagation modeling the interest is for complex environments, with multiple obstacles, transmission through walls, radio interference in communication systems, etc. The study of metamaterials (artificial materials with uncommon electromagnetic properties not available in natural media) is being explored for the design of new very compact microwave devices like filters, etc. All these topics are complemented with some research in numerical modeling and microwave measurement techniques. Some of the previous topics have been developed and applied in more than 20 National and European Projects, with highlight for RACE 2067 - MBS (Mobile Broadband System), ACTS AC230 - SAMBA (System for Advanced Mobile Broadband Applications) or ESA/ESTEC ILASH (Integrated Lens Antenna Shaping). The work is supported in advanced lab infra-structures of the Instituto de Telecomunicações and in cooperation with other reference European research centres in this area.

Best 5 papers Salema, C.; C. A. Fernandes; R. K. Jha; Solid Dielectric Horn Antennas, Artech House , Boston , 1998 . Fernandes, C. A.; " Shaped-Beam Antennas " - Chapter in Handbook of Antennas in Wireless communications , Lal Godara , CRC Press , New York , 2002 . Fernandes, C. A.; J. Fernandes; " Performance of Lens Antennas in Wireless Indoor Millimeter-Wave Applications ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 47 , No. 6, Part 1 , pp. 732 - 737 , June , 1999 . Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; " A Hybrid Method for the Efficient Calculation of the Band Structure of 3-D Metallic Crystals ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 52 , No. 3 , pp. 889 - 902 , March , 2004 . Silveirinha, M.; C. A. Fernandes; " Homogenization of 3-D-Connected and Nonconnected Wire Metamaterials ", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Tech. , Vol. 53 , No. 4 , pp. 1418 - 1430 , April , 2005


- University of Rennes (IETR), France

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418481; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.it.pt/?carlos

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Name José Manuel Nunes Leitão Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1983 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Communication Theory, Pattern Recognition, Detection, Estimation. Research Topics Applictions of communication theory and pattern recognitiom methods to mobile

communications, satellite navigation, remote sensing and satistical image and signal processing.

Best 5 papers J. Dias, J. Leitão, "Reconstruction of Backscattering and extinction coefficients in Lidar: a stochastic filtering approach", IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42 , No. 2 , pp. 604-624 , February , 2003. J. Dias, J. Leitão, "The ZpiM Algorithm for Interferometric Image Reconstruction in SAR/SAS", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , Vol. 11 , No. 4 , pp. 408-422 , April , 2002. J. Leitão, M. A. T. Figueiredo, "Absolute phase image reconstruction: a stochastic nonlinear filtering approach ", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , Vol. 7 , No. 7 , pp. 868-882 , July , 1998. F. Nunes, J. Leitão, "A Nonlinear Filtering Approach to Estimation and Detection in Mobile Communications", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm. , Vol. 16 , No. 9 , pp. 1649-1659 , December , 1998.


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Name Victor Alberto Neves Barroso Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position FULL PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1990 Research Area Research Unit ISR Research Group SIPG-Signal and Image Processing Keywords Signal Processing, Telecomunications Research Topics Signal Processing for Communications. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal

Processing. Signal Processing Theory and Methods Best 5 papers João Xavier, Victor Barroso, José M.F. Moura, Closed Form Correlative Coding

(CFC2) Based Blind Identification of MIMO Channels: An Isometry Fitting to Second Order Statistics, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2001 João Xavier, Victor Barroso, Blind Source Separation, ISI Cancellation and Carrier Phase Recovery in SDMA Systems for Mobile Communications.Wireless Personal Communications Journal, special issue on Wireless Broadband Communications, June 1999. Victor Barroso, José Moura, João Xavier, Blind Array Channel Division Multiple Access (AChDMA) for Mobile Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 737-752, 1998 João Xavier, Victor Barroso, and José M.F. Moura, Closed-form Blind Channel Identification and Source Separation in SDMA Systems through Correlative Coding, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, October 1998. Victor Barroso, José M.F. Moura, and João Xavier, Blind Array Channel Division Multiple Access (AChDMA) for Mobile Communications, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, March 1998.


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Name Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Optical Communications Keywords Telecommunications, optical communications, optical fibre, systems, networks Research Topics His main research interests are optical fibre telecommunication systems and

networks, particularly their physical level. Specifically, current research interests include wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems and networks, specially dense and ultra-dense WDM systems, linear and nonlinear fibre transmission impairments, advanced signalling formats for very high bit rate lightwave systems, nonlinear optical signal processing, radio over fibre systems, and numerical simulation techniques of telecommunication systems.

Best 5 papers A. Cartaxo, “Cross-phase modulation in intensity modulation – direct detection WDM systems with multiple optical amplifiers and dispersion compensators”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 17, nº2, February 1999, pp. 178-190. R. Luís, A. Cartaxo, “Analytical characterization of SPM impact on XPM-induced degradation in dispersion-compensated WDM systems”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 23, nº3, March 2005, pp. 1503-1513. D. Fonseca, A. Cartaxo, P. Monteiro, “Adaptive opto-electrical filter for improved optical single sideband generation”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, nº2, 15 January 2006, pp. 415-417. D. Fonseca, A. Cartaxo, P. Monteiro, “On the use of electrical precompensation of dispersion in optical single-sideband transmission systems”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, special issue on Optical Communications, vol. 12, n 4, July / August 2006, pp. 603-614. M. Leiria, I. Kim, A. Cartaxo, G. Li, “Experimental study of pattern-independent phase noise accumulation in an all-optical clock recovery chain based on two-section gain-coupled DFB lasers”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology.


Research cooperation with Nokia Siemens Networks, and with Politechnic University of Valencia, Photline and Agilent within the FP7 European project UCELLS.


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Name Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1991, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Image Group Keywords Coding, description, summarization, adaptation, visual information, representation

standards Research Topics Image processing and analysis. Image and video segmentation. Image and video

coding. Description, searching and summarization of audivisual information. Adaptation of audiovisual information for heterogenous consumption conditions. Audiovisual coding and descriptions standards

Best 5 papers F.Pereira, I.Burnett, “Universal multimedia experiences for tomorrow”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Universal Multimedia Access, vol.20, nº 2, pp. 63-73, March 2003. P.Fonseca, F.Pereira, “Automatic video summarization based on MPEG-7 descriptions”, Signal Processing: Image communication, vol.19, nº 8, pp. 685-699, September 2004. P. Correia, F.Pereira, “Objective evaluation of video segmentation quality”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 12, nº 2, pp. 186-200, February 2003. L.Ducla Soares, F.Pereira, “Spatial shape error concealment for object-based image and video coding”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, nº 4, pp. 586-599, April 2004. F. Pereira, A. Vetro, T. Sikora, “Multimedia retrieval and delivery: essential metadata challenges and standards”, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2008.


- University of Surrey, UK - EPFL, Switzerland - Universitat Politecnica di Catalunya, Spain

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418460; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/

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Name José Luís Bento Coelho Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1983, ISVR, Univ. Southampton, UK Research Area Acoustical Engineering Research Unit CAPS Research Group Acoustics and Noise Control Keywords Acoustics, Noise control, Urban noise, Room acoustics, Sound radiation and

propagation modelling Research Topics Virtual acoustical reality: real time modelling of the acoustics of enclosures and of

open spaces; Acoustic measurement techniques: optimization; Environmental acoustics: noise in cities, soundscapes and quality noise maps; Transportation noise: modelling and computer simulation; Noise control: duct acoustics, silencers, noise attenuation principles and devices.

Best 5 papers J. Luis Bento Coelho, “Community Noise Ordinances”, in “Handbook of Acoustics & Vibration Control”, Ed. Malcolm J. Crocker, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2007. D. Alarcão and J. L. Bento Coelho, 2003, “Lambertian enclosures – a first step towards fast room acoustics simulation”, Journal of Building Acoustics 10(1), pp. 33-54. J. L. Bento Coelho, D. Alarcão, A. M. Almeida, T. Abreu and N. Fonseca, 2000, “Room Acoustics Design by a Sound Energy Transition Approach”, Acta Acustica, Vol. 86, (2000), 903-910. J. L. Bento Coelho, A. Ferreira, J. Serrano and N. A. A. Castelo Branco, 1999, “Noise Assessment During Aircraft Run-up Procedures”, Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 70, Nº 3, Section II, March 1999, A22-A26. Samir N. Y. Gerges, Márcio R. Kimura and J. L. Bento Coelho, 1998, “Acoustic Modelling and Measurements of Engine Mufflers”, Journal of Building Acoustics, Vol. 5, Nº1, 1998, 27-38.


- REFER, Portuguese Rail Authority - railway traffic noise - Municipalities of Almada, Loures - noise mapping and noise action plans - Portuguese Ministry of Education - classroom acoustics

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218419393, Fax +351218465303; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name Luís Manuel de Jesus Sousa Correia Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1991, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group GROW - Group for Research on Wireless Keywords Mobile and wireless communications Research Topics Work focused in Wireless/Mobile communications in the areas of propagation,

channel characterisation, radio networks, traffic, and services. Best 5 papers Filipe Cardoso and Luis M. Correia, “A Time Domain Based Approach for Short-

term Fading Depth Evaluation in Wideband Mobile communication Systems”, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 365-381, Dec. 2005. George White, João Gil, Luis M. Correia, Yuriy Zakharov and Alister Burr, “Time- Reversal Space-Time Block Coded WCDMA Receiver in Urban and Suburban Environments”, IEE Proc. on Communications, Vol. 152, No. 6, 1047- 1054, Dec. 2005. João Gil and Luis M. Correia, “Comparing Adaptive Beamforming in Micro- and Macro- Cells”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, No. 2, 629-638, Feb. 2006. Lúcio Ferreira, António Serrador and Luis M. Correia, “Concepts of Simultaneous Use in Mobile and Wireless Communications”, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 37, Nos. 3/4, May 2006, pp. 317-328. Mario Garcia-Lozano, Luis Alonso, Fernando Casadevall, Silvia Ruiz, and Luis M. Correia, “Enhanced Analysis of WCDMA Networks with Repeaters Deployment”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 9, Sep. 2007, pp. 3429-3439.


- Vodafone - Optimus - Celfinet

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418478; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://grow.lx.it.pt

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Name Mª Emília M. da Fonseca e Silva da Costa Manso Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1983 Research Area Research Unit IPFN - CFN (Centro de Fusão Nuclear) Research Group Microwave Diagnostics Keywords Microwave and millimetre wave systems, Microwave measuring techniques, Plasma

diagnostics, Wave propagation, Signal processing. Research Topics Development of microwave/mm wave instrumentation (radars) for the diagnostic of

Fusion Plasmas. Measuring techniques in microwave and mm wave domains. Signal processing techniques to analyse the complex plasma response Modelling of wave propagation in plasmas.

Best 5 papers Nunes, I., M. Manso, F. Serra, L.D. Horton, G.D. Conway, A. Loarte and the ASDEX Upgrade CFN Reflectometry Teams, “Density profile analysis during an ELM event in ASDEX Upgrade H-modes”, Nuclear Fusion, 45*, *(12), 1550, 2005 Silva, F. da, S. Heuraux, S. Hacquin and M. Manso, "Unidirectional transparent signal injection in finite-difference time-domain electromagnetic codes – application to reflectometry simulations", Journal of Computational Physics, 203, 2, 467, 2005. J. Santos, S. Hacquin and M. Manso, "FM-CW Reflectometry Measurements of Plasma Position in ASDEX Upgrade H-Mode Regimes", Review of Scientific Instruments, 75 (10), 3855 (2004). M. Manso, L. Cupido, G. Leclert, D. Wagner, G. Vayakis, A Donné, l. de Kock, C. Laviron, J. Sanchez, F. Serra, A. Silva, C. Walker, and the ITER Joint Central Team and EU Home Teams. “Reflectometry in the ITER Divertor", Diagnostics for Experimental Thermonuclear Fusion Reactors 2, ed P E Stott, G Gorini and E Sindoni, Plenum Press, pp. 139-150, 1998. C. Laviron, A.J.H. Donné, M.E. Manso, J. Sanchez (review paper), “Reflectometry techniques for density profile measurements on fusion plasmas”, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 38, 905-936, 1996.


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Name Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1994 Research Area

IT Research Unit Research Group

Keywords Research Topics Statistical image processing/analysis and computer vision: image restoration, contour

estimation, deformable models, image segmentation, Markov random fields, wavelet-based methods. Pattern recognition and statistical learning: unsupervised learning, mixture models, kernel-based methods, feature selection, model selection, semi-supervised learning.

Best 5 papers M. Figueiredo, "Adaptive sparseness for supervised learning", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - PAMI, vol. 25, no. 9, pp.1150-1159, September 2003. M. Law, M. Figueiredo, and A.K.Jain, "Simultaneous feature selection and clustering using a mixture model", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - PAMI, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1154-1166, September 2004. M. Figueiredo and R. Nowak, "An EM algorithm for wavelet-based image restoration", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.12, no.8, pp. 906-916, August 2003. M. Figueiredo and A.K.Jain, "Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - PAMI, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 381-396, March 2002. M. Figueiredo, J. Leitão, and A.K.Jain, "Unsupervised contour representation and estimation using B-splines and a minimum description length criterion" in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1075-1087, June 2000.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418464; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.lx.it.pt/~mtf/

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Name António Armando Miranda Rodrigues da Costa Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1976 Research Area Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Pulsars, Geometrodynamics, Electrodynamics, stochastic chaos, Radio frequency

radiation, gamma-ray radiation, High Energy Plasma Astrophysics. Research Topics Pulsars are neutron stars. They are the compact remnant of a supernova explosion,

about the mass of the sun, with a radius of only 10km: in effect a huge atomic nucleus. As they spin fast and have a high value magnetic field, they radiate collimated beams of electromagnetic waves observed as pulses, lighthouse like, once per rotation, the pulsar phenomena. There are about 1200 radio pulsars known today. The work in the field of pulsar electrodynamics to construct a reasonable radiation mechanism requires the study of physical processes, related to several fields of Physics happening in extreme conditions: high energy plasma astrophysics (electromagnetofluid dynamics) in the framework of Geometrodynamics and Quantum Physics; and move the frontiers of knowledge in fields such as vacuum electrodynamics, atoms and kinetic theory of radiative plasmas in hyper strong electromagnetic fields (with the Lorentz factor, and the pulsar magnetic induction), radiation hydrodynamics, interaction of matter and radiation, collective effects in the rest frame of the magnetospheric plasma and curved space-time. This work incorporates advanced Mathematical Physics related with Special and General Relativity, Quantum & Plasma Physics, supported by Stochastic Analysis and Numerical and Simulation Methods.

Best 5 papers D.A. Diver, A.A. da Costa, , EW. Laing (2002), Coupling between electrostatic and electromagnetic behaviour in a cylindrical equal-mass plasma, Astro. & Astrophys, 387,339-346; A.A. Da Costa,., D.A. Diver, G.A. Stewart, (2001), Pulsar magnetospheres: numerical simulations of large amplitude electron-positron oscilations, Astro & Astrophys., 366, 129-137; A.A. da Costa, (2000) Pulsar Geometrodynamics: the Classical and Quantum Structure of the Stars, Proceedings of the Conference Astrophysical Dynamics to commemorate the work of F. D. Kahn, FRS, Évora, April 1999 (ib.), Astrophys. Space Sci, 272, 263-273; P.C. Freire, A.A. da Costa, (1999) Behaviour of Centrifugal Forces in Neutron Stars, MNRAS, 304, 235-240; A.A. da Costa, F.D. Kahn, (1997) Pulsar Electrodynamics; The Relativistic Kinetic Theory of Radiative Plasmas: I-The Single Particle Approach, MNRAS, 284, 1-26.


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Name António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1984, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords Printed antennas; Laptop antennas; multi-band antennas; mobile terminal antennas;

antennas for MIMO systems Research Topics Analysis, design, fabrication and test of patch antenna elements and arrays to be used

in mobile terminals, such as handsets, PDAs and laptop PCs. Compact antennas for Bluetooth/IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11a/HiperLAN2 applications. Compact antennas for UWB applications. Multiple antennas for MIMO systems.

Best 5 papers Guterman, J.; Y. Rahmat-Samii; Moreira, A. A.; Peixeiro, C.; " Quasi-Omnidirectional Dual-Band Back-to-Back E-shaped Patch Antenna for Laptop Applications ", IEE Electronics Letters , Vol. 42 , No. 15 , pp. 845 - 847 , July , 2006. Guterman, J.; Moreira, A. A.; Peixeiro, C.; " Integration of Omnidirectional Wrapped Microstrip Antennas into Laptops ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters , Vol. 5 , No. - , pp. 141 - 144 , April , 2006. Guterman, J.; Moreira, A. A.; Peixeiro, C.; " Microstrip Fractal Antennas for Multi-Standard Terminals ", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters , Vol. 3 , No. 16 , pp. 351 - 354 , December , 2004. Guterman, J.; Moreira, A. A.; Peixeiro, C.; Y. Rahmat-Samii; " Electromagnetic Human Interaction with ISM 2.4GHz Laptop Antennas", Proc European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP , Edinburgh , United Kingdom, November, 2007. Guterman, J.; Moreira, A. A.; Peixeiro, C.; Y. Rahmat-Samii; "User Interaction with Inverted-F Antennas Integrated into Laptop PCMCIA Cards (invited paper)", Proc International Conf. on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications - ICECOM, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 27 - 30, September, 2007.


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Name Carlos Manuel dos Reis Paiva Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1992, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords Classical electrodynamics; Electromagnetic wave theory and applications; Complex

media in microwave engineering and photonics; New mathematical methods for electrical engineering:Differential forms; Geometric algebra. Nonlinear fiber optics:Fiber solitons

Research Topics My main current research interest is in the theoretical foundations of classical electrodynamics and its relation with special and general relativity. Namely, I want to use new mathematical tools in electromagnetic theory – such as differential forms and (Clifford) geometric algebra – in order to reach a new physical perspective on the relation between electromagnetic theory and relativity: to derive the two Maxwell equations (homogeneous and non-homogeneous, in spacetime) from two basic postulates (charge and magnetic flux conservation) in a metric-free setting so that they are applicable in special as well as in general relativity. My other current interests are: electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media (namely linear bianisotropic media and metamaterials such as double-negative media) and its applications in microwave engineering and photonics; nonlinear fiber optics, namely fiber solitons, and applications to fiber-optic communications systems; quantum physics and its applications in nanophotonics.

Best 5 papers C. R. Paiva and M. A. Ribeiro, “Doppler shift from a composition of boosts with Thomas rotation: A spacetime algebra approach,” Journal of ElectromagneticWaves and Applications, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 941-953, 2006. A. L. Topa, C. R. Paiva, and A. M. Barbosa, “Novel propagation features of doublenegative H-guides and H-guides couplers,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 185-190, October 2005. A. L. Topa, C. R. Paiva, and A. M. Barbosa, “Electromagnetic wave propagation in omega waveguides: Discrete complex modes and application to a ridge waveguide,” Chapter in Progress in Electromagnetics Research, J. A. Kong, ed., EMW Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004. C. R. Paiva, A. L. Topa, and A. M. Barbosa, “Influence of intermodal dispersion on the switching of solitons at different wavelengths in twin-core fiber couplers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 1636-1641, October 1999. C. R. Paiva, A. L. Topa, and A. M. Barbosa, “Semileaky waves in dielectric chirowaveguides,” Optics Letters, Vol. 17, No. 23, pp. 1670-1672, 1992.


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Name João Luís Costa Campos Gonçalves Sobrinho Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1995, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Networking Research Unit IT Research Group Networks and Multimedia Keywords Computer networks; networking; communication protocols; routing protocols;

Internet; medium access control; wireless LANs Research Topics My work focuses on communication network protocols, understood as the collection

of distributed algorithms that secure communication between geographically dispersed entities. I am interested both in the design of communication protocols as well as in their mathematical properties. Especially, I research routing protocols and medium access protocols. The former protocols are those that make messages in a network travel from their origins to their intended destinations. Particularly relevant in my work are the Internet routing protocols, such as OSPF and BGP, which provide global Internet connectivity in a distributed environment composed of thousands of competing Internet Service Providers. The medium access protocols are those that make communication possible in a shared broadcast medium. Here, my main interest is on protocols for wireless LANs. From a broader viewpoint, I am keen on the general correctness and analysis of algorithms for communication networks.

Best 5 papers J. L. Sobrinho, "An Algebraic Theory of Dynamic Network Routing," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, pp. 1160-1173, October 2005. J. L. Sobrinho, "Algebra and Algorithms for QoS Path Computation and Hop-by-Hop Routing in the Internet," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , pp. 541-550, August 2002. J. L. Sobrinho, "Network Routing With Path Vector Protocols: Theory and Applications" in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2003, pp. 49-60, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003. J. L. Sobrinho, A. S. Krishnakumar, "Quality of Service in Ad Hoc Carrier Sense Multiple Access Wireless Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in communications, pp. 1353-1368, August 1999. J. L. Sobrinho, A. S. Krishnakumar. "Real-Time Traffic over the IEEE 802.11 MAC," Bell Labs Technical Journal, vol. 1, no 2, pp. 172-187, Autumn 1996.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418458; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.lx.it.pt/~jls/

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Name José Manuel Rego Lourenço Brázio Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1986, Stanford University Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Networks and Multimedia Keywords Computer networking, data networking, Internet, satellite data communications

architectures, wireless communications, performance evaluation. Research Topics My research interests concentrate on the generic area of computer/data networking

and Internet evolution. Specific current interests include the study of transport architectures and mechanisms for broadband communications over satellite networks, in particular based on Performance-Enhancing Proxies, and the study of access mechanisms for the support of Quality of Service in wireless/ad-hoc networks.

Best 5 papers Brázio, J.; E. Karasan; M. Fiedler; A. Beben; P. Tran-Gia; M. Menth; W. Burakowski; N. Akar; P. Olivier; S. Wittevrongel; K. Tutschku; Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks Supporting Mobility, Multimedia, and Internetworking , José Brázio , Springer , Dordrecht, The Netherlands , 2005 . Sobrinho, J. L. S.; J. Brázio; " Reservation versus demand-assignment multiplex strategies for packet voice communication systems " - Chapter in Wireless Personal Communications: Trends and Challenges , Theodore S. Rappaport, Brian D. Woerner, Jeffrey H. Reed , Kluwer Academic , , 1994 . Velez, F. J.; Correia, L. M.; Brázio, J.; " Frequency Reuse and System Capacity in Mobile Broadband Systems: Comparison between the 40 and 60 GHz Bands ", International Journal on Wireless Personal Comm. , Vol. 19 , No. 1 , pp. 1 - 24 , August , 2001 . Sobrinho, J. L. S.; Brázio, J.; " Proposal and Performance Analysis of a Multiple Access Protocol for High-speed Wireless LANs ", Computer Networks & ISDN Systems , Vol. 28 , No. 3 , pp. 283 - 305 , January , 1996 . Brázio, J.; Sobrinho, J. L. S.; L. Matraszek; L. Byczek; " The Destructive Effect of Acknowledgment Traffic in WLANs ", Proc IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. - GLOBECOM , San Francisco , United States , Vol. WLC-24 , pp. WLC-24-4-1 - WLC-24-4-6 , November , 2006 .


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Name José Manuel Bioucas Dias Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. November, 1995 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Statistic Signal and Image Processing Image Restoration; Image Segmentation;

Computed Imaging Inverse Problems; Compressed Sensing; Applications Remote Sensing; Medical Imaging; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Hyperspectral Linear Unmixing;

Research Topics Statistical Image Processing: Image Restoration (denoising, deblurring, blind deconvolution), Image Segmentation/Classification, Computed Imaging, and Phase Unwrapping. Energy Minimization: Iterative Methods, Expectation Maximization, Majorization Minimization, Graph-Cuts. Applications in Remote Sensing and Medical Imaging: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Weather Radar, Hyperspectral Imagery, Ultrasound Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Best 5 papers J. Bioucas-Dias, "Bayesian wavelet-based image deconvolution: a GEM algorithm exploiting a class of heavy-tailed priors", IEEE Transactions on Image processing, 2006 (in press). J. Nascimento and J. Bioucas-Dias, "Vertex component analysis: a fast algorithm to unmix hyperspectral data", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 898-910, 2005. J. Bioucas-Dias and P. Marques, "Multiple Moving target detection and trajectory estimation using a single SAR sensor", EEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 604-624, 2003. J. Bioucas-Dias and J. Leitão, "The ZpM algorithm for interferometric image reconstruction in SAR/SAS", IEEE Transactions on Image processing, vol 11, no. 4, pp. 408-422, 2002. J. Dias and J. Leitão, "Wall position and thickness estimation from sequences of echocardiograms images", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 25-38, 1996.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418466; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.lx.it.pt/~bioucas/

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Name António Manuel de Assis Gusmão Correia Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (with Habilitation) PhD year, Univ. 1987, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit CAPS Research Group Digital Communications Keywords Digital transmission theory; digital transmission techniques; broadband wireless

systems; physical layer design; performance evaluation. Research Topics The research activities and interests of Prof. Gusmão and his team ( Digital

communications Group, CAPS) involve digital transmission theory and techniques, with applications to wireless communication systems, jointly dealing with the following issues within the digital communications area: modulation, channel coding, equalization, space diversity, multiplexing and multiple access, signal processing methods (including nonlinear and/or advanced iterative detection/decoding methods) for transmitter and receiver implementation. In recent years, the main activities have been concerned with mobile broadband applications, including the specification of the physical layer for future systems and the development of appropriate performance evaluation methods, by analytical and simulation means. In the mobile radio context, the main original contributions in recent years involve advanced "FFT-based" (Fast Fourier Transform) block transmission techniques for future B3G ( Beyond 3G ) systems, namely with the aim of providing data rates up to 100 Mbps with wide area coverage and 1 Gbps with local area coverage.

Best 5 papers A. Gusmão. V. Gonçalves and N. Esteves, “A Novel Approach to Modeling of OQPSK-type Digital Transmission over Nonlinear Radio Channels”, IEEE Journal on Sel. Areas in communications, SAC-15, May 1997. A. Gusmão, R. Dinis, J. Conceição and N. Esteves, “Comparison of Two Modulation Choices for Broadband Wireless communications”, IEEE VTC’2000 (Spring), May 2000. A. Gusmão, R. Dinis and N. Esteves, “On Frequency-domain Equalization and Diversity Combining for Broadband Wireless communications”, IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 51, no. 7, July 2003. R. Dinis and A. Gusmão, “A Class of Nonlinear Signal Processing Schemes for Bandwidth-Efficient OFDM Transmission with Low Envelope Fluctuation”, IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 52, no. 11, Nov. 2004. A. Gusmão, P. Torres, R. Dinis and N. Esteves, “A Turbo FDE Technique for Reduced-CP SC-Based Block Transmission Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Commm., vol. 55, no.1, Jan. 07.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218419358; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://promos.hotbar.com/promos/promodll.dll?RunPromo&El=&SG=&RAND=66708&pa

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Name António Carlos Cristovão Matias de Almeida Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Congestion control, stateless router algorithms, binary congestion signalling, rate-

based control Research Topics Telecommunications Best 5 papers A. Almeida, C. Belo, “Analysis and Implementation of a Stateless Congestion

Control Algorithm”, International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS ’05), Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 24-28, 2005 A. Almeida, C. Belo, “Mechanisms for Stateless Service Differentiation in Best-Effort Networks”, IASTED International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (CSA ’05), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 19-21, 2005 A. Almeida, C. Belo, "A novel approach to probabilistic marking for congestion control", HET-NETs 2004, Ilkley, UK, July 2004 A. Almeida, C. Belo, "Source rate encoding mechanisms for binary congestion control", Performance Evaluation, 48(1-4): pp. 25-46, May 2002. A. Almeida, C. Belo, "A proposal for binary congestion control with rate-based sources and stateless routers", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Networks, Singapore, Sep. 2000. A. Almeida, C. Belo, "Explicit Rate Congestion Control with BinaryNotifications", Proc. 10th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan AreaNetworks, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 21–24, 1999.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418456; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.lx.it.pt/~aca/

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Name António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1997, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords Wireless Communications, Satellite Communications, Radio Resource Management,

MIMO Systems, OFDM, Beyond 3G Systems, Location Based Systems, Sensor Networks

Research Topics Wireless communications including modulation, coding, multiple access techniques, cellular mobile radio systems, digital radio transmission, diversity reception and equalization problems for mobile environments including satellite/mobile systems. Location and positioning systems and services. Sensor Networks. Wireless Networks (WiFi, WiMax, UWB, etc.). Digital transmission, TV and multimedia evolution, analog and digital relay links and optical communication systems.

Best 5 papers Correia, A. Rodrigues, F. Cercas, “Frequency-hopping versus interference cancellation for TD-CDMA”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 18, nº 1, Janeiro de 2000, pp.42-52. T. Brandão, M. P. Queluz, A. Rodrigues, “Diversity enhancement of coded spread spectrum video watermarking”, Wireless Personal Communications, Special Issue on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Vol.23, nº 1, Outubro de 2002, pp. 93-104. F. Monteiro, A. Rodrigues, “Limits for CPM signals representation by Walsh functions”, Proceedings of the European Microwave Association, Vol.1, nº 1, Março de 2005, pp- 82-86. N. Souto, J. Silva, F. Cercas, A. Correia, A. Rodrigues, “Low rate convolutional and turbo codes based on non-linear cyclic codes”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, John Wiley & Sons, 2006 (aceite para publicação). F. Monteiro, A. Rodrigues, “Phase error resilience to I/Q mismatch of a simplified CPM receiver”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 15, nº 9, Setembro de 2005, pp. 549-551.


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Name António Luís Campos da Silva Topa Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1998 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Optical Waveguides, Electromagnetics of Complex Media, Anisotropic media, Chiral

Media, Bianisotropic Media, Omega Media, Metamaterials, Double Negative Media. Research Topics Research interests are in the area of the characterization of the electromagnetic wave

propagation and radiation in three-dimensional planar or circular waveguides involving complex media and metamaterials with negative refractive index (NRI): (1) The work on complex media has been mainly focused in the analysis of waveguides filled with chiral and omega media, finding application in the optical and millimetre-wave regimes. Both radiation and leaky modes have been investigated to suggest future application to new devices. (2) The work developed in metamaterials has been essentially devoted to the analysis of Double Negative Nonradiative Dielectric Waveguides (DNG-NRD) and DNG/DPS (Double Positive Media) directional couplers operating as contra-directional coupling devices. Anomalous refraction and backward waves suggest promising applications in the design of new waveguide components.

Best 5 papers A. L. Topa, C. R. Paiva, and A. M. Barbosa, "Complete Spectral Representation for the Electromagnetic Field of Planar Multi-Layered Waveguides Containing Pseudochiral Omega-Media," in Progress in Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 18, EMW Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Chapter 5, pp. 85-104, 1998 A. L. Topa, C. R. Paiva, and A. M. Barbosa, "Surface and Leaky Modes of Multilayered Omega Structures," in Saïd Zoudhi, Ari Sihvola, and Mohamed Arsalane, Eds., Advances in Electromagnetics of Complex Media and Metamaterials, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 291-305, 2002 F. M. Janeiro, C. R. Paiva, and A. L. Topa, “Guidance and leakage properties of chiral optical fibers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 2558-2566, November 2002. A. L. Topa, C. R. Paiva, and A. M. Barbosa, "Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Omega Waveguides: Discrete Complex Modes," in Progress in Electromagnetics Research, EMW Publishing, PIER Series, vol. 49, pp. 309-331, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004. A. L. Topa, C. R. Paiva, and A. M. Barbosa, “Novel propagation features of double negative H-guides and H-guide couplers,” submitted to Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 185-190, October 2005.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418479; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://193.136.221.2/person_detail_p.asp?ID=519

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Name Custódio José de Oliveira Peixeiro Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1993, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords Analysis, design, fabrication and test of printed antennas and circuits Research Topics Analysis, design, fabrication and test of small and compact multiband and/or

wideband microstrip patch antenna elements and arrays. The antenna elements are intended for mobile communication and WLAN applications. The analysis takes into account that the antenna elements will be integrated into small mobile terminals (handsets, PDAs and laptop PCs) and potentially with MIMO antenna array systems. Antenna-user interaction is also evaluated. Single and multi-feed patches with slots are considered.

Best 5 papers J. Guterman, A. A. Moreira and C. Peixeiro, “Microstrip Fractal Antennas for Multi-Standard Terminals”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 3, pp. 351-354, December 2004. J. Guterman, A. A. Moreira, and C. Peixeiro, "Integration of Omnidirectional Wrapped Microstrip Antennas into Laptops", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 5, pp. 141-144, April 2006. J. Guterman, Y. Rahmat-Samii, A. A. Moreira and C. Peixeiro, "Quasi-Omnidirectional Dual- Band Back-to-Back E-Shaped Patch Antenna for Laptop Applications", Electronics Letters, vol. 42, nº. 15, pp. 845-847, July 2006. J. Guterman, C. Peixeiro and A. A. Moreira, "Omnidirectional Wrapped Microstrip Antenna: Concept, Integration and Applications", Frequenz, vol. 61, n.º 3-4, pp. 78-83, March-April 2007. Y. Rahamat-Samii, J. Guterman, A. A. Moreira and C. Peixeiro, "Integrated Antennas for Wireless Personal Communications", in Modern Antenna Handbook, edited by C. Balanis, John Wiley, 2008.


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Name Fernando Duarte Nunes Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1994, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords Channel and Doppler frequency estimation in single and multicarrier receivers,

stochastic nonlinear filtering applications, acquisition and tracking in GPS/Galileo receivers.

Research Topics His current research interests include the study of new architectures for the acquisition and tracking in GNSS (Galileo and GPS) receivers, especially aiming at processing the new modulation schemes such as the BOC (binary offset carrier) and AltBOC (alternate BOC). These architectures are based on stochastic nonlinear filtering which encompases the extended Kalman filter, the Gaussian sums filter and the particle filters. He is also interested in problems of multipath mitigation in GNSS receivers, in particular those related with the use of the new modulations schemes (BOC, AltBOC) in highly-accelerative and indoor environments. In the context of digital communications he is interested in problems of carrier frequency offset tracking and channel estimation in single and multicarrier (e.g.: OFDM) receivers with fast fading scenarios. The approach considered is (stochastic) model-based with the quantities to be estimated being treated as random signals rather than parameters.

Best 5 papers F. Nunes, J. Leitão, “A Nonlinear Filtering Approach to Estimation and Detection in Mobile communications”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in communications, vol. 16, pp. 1649-1659, December 1998. F. Nunes, J. Leitão, “Signal Processing Aspects of Fusion Plasma Broadband Reflectometry”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 378-388, February 1999. F. Nunes, J. Leitão, “Joint Doppler Frequency and Frequency-Rate Estimation in LEO Satellite communications”, IEEE Globecom 2002, Taipei-Taiwan, November 2002. F. Nunes, J. Leitão, “State-Space Estimation of Rapidly-Varying Carrier Frequency Offsets in OFDM Systems”, IEEE Signal Processing Aspects in Wireless communications, Rome-Italy, June 2003, pp. 370-374. F. Nunes, F. Sousa, J. Leitão, “An Innovations-Approach to False-Lock Mitigation for GPS/Galileo BOC Signals”, Institute of Navigation GPS/GNSS 2004, Long Beach, CA, September 2004, pp. 2636-2644.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418470; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: www.lx.it.pt

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Name Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2003 Research Area Research Unit IT Research Group Keywords Importance Sampling, Simulation, Large Deviations. Research Topics Efficient Simulation. Large Deviations and Importance Sampling. Communication

Theory and Pattern Recognition. Best 5 papers Francisco Sena da Silva; José Leitão. Contour Processing for Left Ventricle unction

Automatic Classification. Proceedings of the Conference ‘Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition – RecPad’, Lisboa, Portugal – March 1998. Francisco Sena da Silva; José Leitão. Importance Sampling Evaluation of Digital Phase Detectors Based on Extended Kalman-Bucy Filters. Proceedings of the Conference ‘IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP’, Salt Lake City, United States – May 2001. Francisco Sena da Silva; José Leitão. Error Floor Assessment of Digital Phase Detectors with Carrier Phase Tracking. A Large Deviations Approach. Proceedings of the Conference ‘IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT’, Washington DC, United States – June 2001. Francisco Sena da Silva; José Leitão. Importance Sampling Analysis of Digital Phase Detectors with Carrier Phase Tracking. Proceedings of the Conference ‘IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing - SSP’, Singapore – August 2001.


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Name João Avelino Passos da Cunha Serra Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218419359; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name João José de Oliveira Pires Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1993, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Optical Communications Keywords Optical networks, optical switching, IP over WDM, long-reach EPON Research Topics The researcher interests are focused on the areas of optical networking and broadband

access networks. The networking area involves studies such as routing and wavelength assignment in optical circuit switching and optical burst switching networks, and aspects related with the interaction between logical and physical layers, like evaluating the impact of physical impairments on the performance of IP/MPLS over WDM networks. The second area is mainly concerned with the study of new architectures and paradigms for 10 Gbps EPONs with high survivability.

Best 5 papers J. Santos, J. Pedro, P. Monteiro, J. Pires, “Self-Protected Long-Reach 10 Gbit/s EPONs based on a Ring Architecture,” aceito para publicação no OSA Journal of Optical Networking; J. Pedro, P. Monteiro e J. Pires, “Bandwidth-efficient optical burst-switched networks using only a minimum number of shared wavelength converters,” Proc. OFC/NFOEC 2008, artigo JWA89, San Diego, USA, 2008; J. J. O. Pires, M. O´Mahony, N. Parnis e E. Jones, "Scaling limitations in full-mesh WDM ring networks using arrayed-waveguide grating OADMs," Electronic Letters, vol.35, nº1, p. 73-75, 1999; J. J. O. Pires, M. O´Mahony, “Photonic switch size limitations imposed by phase noise from semiconductor optical gates,” Electronic Letters, vol.3, no.18, p. 1582-84,1995; J. J. O. Pires, J. R. F. da Rocha, “Performance analysis of DPSK direct detection optical systems in the presence of interferometric intensity noise,“ IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technology, vol.10, no.11, p. 1722-1730, 1992.


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Name José Eduardo Charters R. da Cunha Sanguino Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Wireless Communications Keywords Positioning, Radio Navigation, Global Navigation Satellite Systems. Research Topics Range-based positioning and navigation.

Satellite radionavigation systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo). Geolocation on cellular mobile radio systems (GSM and UMTS). Applications for location-based services.

Best 5 papers D. Santos, R. Matos, J. Sanguino, A. Rodrigues, "Development of a GPS-based Mobile Coordinated Positioning System," 3rd ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC'2006), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands, December 2006. D. Santos, R. Matos, J. Sanguino, A. Rodrigues, "Automatic Location-based Map Distribution Service for Mobile Coordinated Positioning System," IADIS International Conference, WWW/Internet 2006, Murcia, Spain, October 2006, pp. 305-309. R. Matos, D. Santos, J. Sanguino, A. Rodrigues, "A GPS-based Mobile Coordinated Positioning System for Firefighting Scenarios," Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (MCWC 2006), Amman, Jordan, September 2006. J.E. Sanguino, S.R. Marques, L.R. Pontes, J.M.N. Leitão. Operational Aspects of a DGPS-based Vessel Traffic System. Proceedings of the Conference 'DASIA 2000 – Data Systems in Aerospace', Montreal, Canada, 22-26 May 2000. J.E. Sanguino, S.R. Marques, L.R. Pontes, J.M.N. Leitão. Architecture of a GPS-based Transponder. Application to a Vessel Traffic System. Proceedings of DASIA (DATA Systems in Aerospace) '99 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-21 May 1999.


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Name Maria Hermínia Caeiro Costa Marçal Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1990 Research Area Research Unit IPFN - CFP (Plasma Physics Center) Research Group Keywords Physics of waves Research Topics Propagation of EM waves in various media; Relativity Theory; Waves in plasmas. Best 5 papers A. L. Brinca, F. J. Romeiras, L. Gomberoff, M. H. Marçal, “On the generation of

totem-pole emissions “ J. of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 109. (A6), nr. A06201 (2004), doi: 10.1029/2004 JAD 10388; A. L. Brinca, F. J. Romeiras, L- Gomberoff, M. H. Marçal, “On the stimulation of totem-pole emissions by almost mono-energetic ions “, poster presentation to the 1st General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, 2004, Nice-France M. H. Marçal, M. Abreu Faro, “Analysis of light interaction with a moving dielectric, with applications to acceleration sensing “, oral presentation to the conference OPTIKA’98, Budapest, Hungary; SPIE 3573 (1998); M. Abreu Faro, M. H. Marçal, “Energia confinada em cavidade de parede móvel “, Memórias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Tomo XXXVII, (1998) M. Abreu Faro, M.H. Marçal, “Efeitos relativistas em geodesia e metrologia “, Memórias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Tomo XXXVI, (1995/1997).


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Name Maria João Marques Martins Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1989, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit Cie3 Research Group Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices Keywords Research Topics Optical communications and optoelectronics; Radiation, Metamaterials applications.

Influence of radiation fields on optoelectronic components and devices. A recent evolution of our work program (2006-2007) consists in the design and implementation of sensors for applications in medicine, in telecommunications, environmental applications (gas sensors) and testing of reliability of integrated components.

Best 5 papers 1-Thin Film Transistor Gas Sensors: Materials, Manufacturing Technologies and Test Results, M. Pereira, M. J. Martins, O. Bonnaud, Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika, ISSN 392-1215(2007). 2- European Education without Borders and the Challenges for Technology as Mediator, Fanny Klett, Maria Joao Martins, Peter Pharow , 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 28 – 31, 2007, San Diego, CA, CD-ROM. 3-Simulator of an Optical Communication System, Maria João Martins, M. Pereira, R. Fernandes, G. Gonçalves, IEEE AFRICON, September 2007. 4- “Toward a Pan-European Virtual University in Electrical and Information Engineering”, Jean-Marc-Thiriet, Michel Robert, Pentti Lappalainen, Michael Hoffmann, Maria João Martins, Anselmo Seoane, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol.45, nº2, May 2003. 5- MARTINS, Maria J., PEREIRA, Marco, JAMSEK, Janez, KOCIJANCIC, Slavko. Computerised laboratory in science and technology teaching: the sensor computer interface. MARTINS, Maria J., PEREIRA, Marco, JAMSEK, Janez, KOCIJANCIC, Slavko In: VILAS, Antonio Méndez (ur.), GONZÁLES, J.A. Mesa (ur.), DE ZALDÍVAR M., Inés Solo (ur.). Educational technology : [13.-16.11.2002, p. 391-394.


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Name Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 1996, Université Catholique de Louvain Research Area Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit IT Research Group Image Communication Keywords Watermarking; Content authentication; Fingerprinting; Image quality metric;

Objective image quality; Subjective image quality. Research Topics Watermarking techniques for image/video content authentication, fingerprinting and

indexing. Non-reference and reduced-reference metrics for blind assessment of images/video quality.

Best 5 papers T. Brandão and M.P. Queluz, “No-reference image quality assessment based on DCT domain statistics”, Signal Processing, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 822-833, April 2008 T. Brandão and M.P. Queluz, “Towards objective metrics for blind assessment of images quality”, ICIP 2006, October 8-11, 2006, Atlanta, USA T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz and A. Rodrigues, “Diversity Enhancement of Coded Spread-Spectrum Video Watermarking”, Wireless Personal Communications - Special Issue on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, vol.23, no. 1, pp. 93-104, October 2002 M.P. Queluz, “Spatial Watermark for Image Content Authentication”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol.11, no.2, pp. 275-285, April 2002 M.P. Queluz, “Authentication of Digital Images and Video: Generic Models and a New Contribution”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol.16, pp. 461-475, January 2001.

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418463; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: www.img.lx.it.pt/~mpq/ and http://193.136.221.2/person_detail_p.asp?id=476

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Name Paulo Luís Serras Lobato Correia Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2002, IST, TU Lisbon Research Area Information and Communication Technologies;

Analysis and Processing of Images and Video Research Unit IT Research Group Image Group Keywords Image and Video Analysis; Video Object Segmentation; Objective Evaluation of

Segmentation Quality; People Recognition using Biometrics; Object-based Feature Extraction; Description Creation; Video Coding; Multimedia Communications

Research Topics - Video analysis for automatic extraction of semantic information. - Video object segmentation; - Objective evaluation of segmentation quality; - Identification of segmentation application scenarios and corresponding segmentation solutions; - People recognition using biometrics; - Underwater video analysis; - Analysis of road pavement surface; - Traffic sign detection and recognition; - Description and indexing of audiovisual contents.

Best 5 papers Paulo Correia, Fernando Pereira; “Objective Evaluation of Video Segmentation Quality”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 2, Feb. 2003, pp. 186-200; Paulo Correia, Fernando Pereira; “Classification of Video Segmentation Application Scenarios”, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology, – Special issue on: “Audio and Video Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services”, Vol. 4, May 2004, pp. 735-741. Paulo Correia, Fernando Pereira; “Video Object Relevance Metrics for Overall Segmentation Quality Evaluation”, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, To be published in 2006. Paulo Correia, P. Y. Lau, Paulo Fonseca, Aida Campos; “Underwater Video Analysis for Norway Lobster Stock Quantification Using Multiple Visual Attention Features”, Proceedings of the 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 2007 Tiago Sanches, João Antunes, Paulo Correia; “A Single Sensor Hand Biometric Multimodal System”, Proceedings of the 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 2007


Cooperation with INRB/IPIMAR (http://www.iniap.min-agricultura.pt/) on underwater video analysis

Contacts Tel: (+351) 218418461, Fax:(+351) 218418472; e-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~plc/

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Name Pedro Miguel Assis Ferreira Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. 2004, CMU, USA Research Area Engineering Public Policies Research Unit ISR Research Group Keywords Telecommunications management and policy, interconnection, computer networks

with quality of services, economics of networks. Research Topics The development of the telecommunications industry over time, associated

technological, business, economics and legal issues. Public policies for the telecommunications sector and the management of telecommunications technology. Interconnection in the IP world, provisioning and routing games, the effect of selfishness in the efficiency of the telecom market and resulting communication networks.

Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: ; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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Name Victor Manuel Paulino Vargas Teaching Unit: TELECOMMUNICATIONS Position ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PhD year, Univ. Research Area Research Unit IST/DEEC Research Group Keywords Research Topics Best 5 papers Contacts Tel: (+351) 218417450; e-mail: [email protected]; web page:

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CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 1

DEEC - CONTACTS 2

1. RESEARCH UNITS 3 CAPS - Center for Analysis and Signal Processing 5 CEG-IST - Centro de Estudos de Gestão do IST 6 Cie3 - Center for Innovation in Electrical and Energy Engineering 7 INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa 8 IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear 9 ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics 10 IT - Telecommunications Institute 11

2. DEEC - FACULTY 13 2.1. Computers 13

Augusto Júlio Domingues Casaca 15 Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso 16 Luís Miguel Teixeira D'Ávila Pinto da Silveira 17 José Alberto Baptista Tomé 18 Mário Serafim dos Santos Nunes 19 Guilherme Dinis Moreno da Silva Arroz 20 Horácio Cláudio de Campos Neto 21 Rui Manuel Rodrigues Rocha 22 Teresa Maria Sá Ferreira Vazão Vasques 23 António Manuel Raminhos Cordeiro Grilo 24 Bertinho Manuel D'Andrade da Costa 25 Carlos Manuel Ribeiro Almeida 26 Fernando Henrique Corte Real Mira da Silva 27 João Paulo Baptista de Carvalho 28 Nuno Cavaco Gomes Horta 29 Paulo Alexandre Crisóstomo Lopes 30 Paulo Rogério Barreiros de Almeida Pereira 31 Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves 32 Rui Gustavo Nunes Pereira Crespo 33

2.2. Electronics 35 António Manuel da Cruz Serra 37 João Paulo Cacho Teixeira 38 Moisés Simões Piedade 39 Pedro Manuel Brito da Silva Girão 40 Artur Fernando Delgado Lopes Ribeiro 41 Helena Maria dos Santos Geirinhas Ramos 42 Isabel Maria Silva Nobre Parreira Cacho Teixeira 43 João José Lopes da Costa Freire 44 Jorge Manuel Torres Pereira 45 Leonel Augusto Pires Seabra de Sousa 46 Carlos Francisco Beltran Tavares de Almeida 47 Maria Helena da Costa Matos Sarmento 48

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Carlos Alberto Ferreira Fernandes 49 Ana Teresa Correia de Freitas 50 António Carlos de Campos Simões Baptista 51 Fernando Manuel Duarte Gonçalves 52 Francisco André Corrêa Alegria 53 Gonçalo Nuno Gomes Tavares 54 João Manuel Torres Caldinhas Simões Vaz 55 Jorge Manuel dos Santos Ribeiro Fernandes 56 José António Beltran Gerald 57 José João Henriques Teixeira de Sousa 58 José Júlio Alves Paisana 59 Mª Beatriz Mendes Batalha Vieira Vieira Borges 60 Mª João Ramos M. Coelho Carrilho do Rosário 61 Marcelino Bicho dos Santos 62 Paulo Ferreira Godinho Flores 63 Pedro Miguel Pinto Ramos 64 Pedro Rafael Bonifácio Vitor 65 Raúl Daniel Lavado Carneiro Martins 66 Teresa Maria Canavarro M. Mendes de Almeida 67 Carlos Mexia de Almeida de Azeredo Leme 68 João Paulo Calado Cordeiro Vital 69

2.3. POWER and ENERGY 71 João José Esteves Santana 73 Joaquim António Fraga Gonçalves Dente 74 José António Marinho Brandão Faria 75 José Pedro da Silva Sucena Paiva 76 Luís António Fialho Marcelino Ferreira 77 José Fernando Alves da Silva 78 José Luís Costa Pinto de Sá 79 José Manuel Dias Ferreira de Jesus 80 Mª Teresa N. P. de Castro Correia de Barros 81 Vitor Manuel de Oliveira Maló Machado 82 Gil Domingos Marques 83 Paulo José da Costa Branco 84 Carlos Manuel do Amaral Alegria 85 Célia Maria Santos Cardoso de Jesus 86 Duarte de Mesquita e Sousa 87 Mª José Ferreira dos Santos Lopes de Resende 88 Mª. Eduarda de Sampaio Pinto de Almeida Pedro 89 Manuel Ventura Guerreiro das Neves 90 Pedro Alexandre Flores Correia 91 Pedro Manuel Santos de Carvalho 92 Rui Manuel Gameiro de Castro 93 Sónia Maria Nunes dos Santos Paulo Ferreira Pinto 94

2.4. SYSTEMS, DECISION and CONTROL 95 João José dos Santos Sentieiro 97 João Manuel Lage de Miranda Lemos 98 Luís Henrique Martins Borges de Almeida 99

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Maria Isabel Lobato de Faria Ribeiro 100 Agostinho Cláudio da Rosa 101 Jorge dos Santos Salvador Marques 102 José Alberto Rosado dos Santos Victor 103 Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima 104 António Manuel dos Santos Pascoal 105 Isabel Maria Gonçalves Lourtie 106 Alexandre José Malheiro Bernardino 107 Ana Luísa Nobre Fred 108 Carlos Filipe Gomes Bispo 109 Carlos Jorge Ferreira Silvestre 110 Eduardo José Ramos Morgado 111 João Fernando Cardoso Silva Sequeira 112 João Manuel de Freitas Xavier 113 João Miguel Raposo Sanches 114 João Paulo da Silva Neto 115 João Paulo Salgado Arriscado Costeira 116 João Pedro Castilho Pereira Santos Gomes 117 José António da Cruz Pinto Gaspar 118 Luís Manuel Marques Custódio 119 Luís Miguel Veiga Vaz Caldas de Oliveira 120 Maria Margarida Campos da Silveira 121 Paulo Jorge Coelho Ramalho Oliveira 122 Pedro Manuel Quintas Aguiar 123 Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura 124

2.5. TELECOMMUNICATIONS 125 Afonso Manuel dos Santos Barbosa 127 António Simão de Carvalho Fernandes 128 Carlos António Cardoso Fernandes 129 José Manuel Nunes Leitão 130 Victor Alberto Neves Barroso 131 Adolfo da Visitação Tregeira Cartaxo 132 Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira 133 José Luís Bento Coelho 134 Luís Manuel de Jesus Sousa Correia 135 Mª Emília M. da Fonseca e Silva da Costa Manso 136 Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo 137 António Armando Miranda Rodrigues da Costa 138 António Manuel Restani Graça Alves Moreira 139 Carlos Manuel dos Reis Paiva 140 João Luís Costa Campos Gonçalves Sobrinho 141 José Manuel Rego Lourenço Brázio 142 José Manuel Bioucas Dias 143 António Manuel de Assis Gusmão Correia 144 António Carlos Cristovão Matias de Almeida 145 António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues 146 António Luís Campos da Silva Topa 147 Custódio José de Oliveira Peixeiro 148

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Fernando Duarte Nunes 149 Francisco Alberto Sena da Silva 150 João Avelino Passos da Cunha Serra 151 João José de Oliveira Pires 152 José Eduardo Charters R. da Cunha Sanguino 153 Maria Hermínia Caeiro Costa Marçal 154 Maria João Marques Martins 155 Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues 156 Paulo Luís Serras Lobato Correia 157 Pedro Miguel Assis Ferreira 158 Victor Manuel Paulino Vargas 159

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RESEARCH AREAS & GROUPS

Acoustical Engineering 134

Acoustics and Noise Control 134

ALGOS - ALGorithms for Optimization and Simulation 17, 63

Alternative energies / electric energy conversion 74, 83, 84, 87

Analogue and Mixed-mode Circuits 56

Analysis and Processing of Images and Video 157

Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices 51, 59, 75, 82, 89, 90, 155

Basic Sciences 64

Basic Sciences & Energy 75

Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies 40, 41, 42

Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies, Instrumentation and Measurement 53, 64

Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies, Integrated Circuits and Systems 29, 32

Biomedical Engineering and Evolutionary Computation 101

Communication Networks and Mobility 15, 19, 23, 24, 27, 31, 33

Communication Theory and Pattern Recognition, Networks and Multimedia Research Area 108

Computer and Robot Vision 107, 118

Computer Networking 15

Computer Systems Engineering and Electronics 63

Control of Dynamic Systems (Embedded Electronic Systems) 25

Digital Communications 144

Dynamic Systems and Marine Robotics 105

Dynamic Systems and Ocean Robotics Lab 105, 122

Electronic and Optoelectronic Components 45, 49

Embedded Electronic Systems, Control of Dynamic Systems 98

Embedded Electronic Systems, Packaging, Measurement and Test 47

Embedded Electronic Systems, Quality, Test and Co-Design of HW/SW Systems 38, 43, 62

Embedded Electronic Systems, Signal Processing Systems 30, 39, 46, 54, 67

Embedded Electronic Systems, Software/Configware Algorithms 52, 58

Energy and Environmental Policies 73

Energy, Environment and Mobility 73, 74, 78, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 93, 94

Engineering Public Policies 158

ESDA - Electronic Systems Design and Automation 21, 48

Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab 101

GROW - Group for Research on Wireless 135

Image Communication 156

Image Group 133, 157

Information and Communication Technologies 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 33, 44, 48, 50, 57, 102, 104, 106, 115, 123, 129, 132, 133, 135, 139, 144, 146, 148, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157

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Instrumentation and Measurement 37, 40

Intelligent Systems 104

ISLab - Intelligent Systems Lab 109, 124

KDBIO – Knowledge Discovery and Bioinformatics 50

L2F - Spoken Language Systems Lab 16, 115, 120

Micro and nanoelectronics design and test, ICT 38

Microwave Diagnostics 136

Microwave Electronics Group of the Research Line Radio Microwaves and Millimeter waves of the Scientific Area of Wireless communications 44

Mobile Robotics Lab 112

Nanoscience, microtechnology & materials 111

Networking 141

Networks and Multimedia 22, 141, 142

Optical Communications 45, 49, 132, 152

Power and Energy Systems 77, 79, 86, 89, 91, 92, 93

Power Electronics 60

Power Electronics and Power Quality 78, 88, 94

Power Systems 81, 92

Production Engineering and Technologies 37, 60, 86

Radio, Microwave and Millimetre Waves 129

Robotics, Estimation, and Automation 122

Signal and Image Processing 102, 106, 123

Signal Processing Lab 117

Signal Processing Systems (SIPS) 57

SIPG-Signal and Image Processing 131

Soft Computing 28

Soft Computing of Information and Decision Support Systems 18

System design and test, ICT 43

Technology Management & Innovation 28, 112, 128

VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab 97, 103, 107, 116, 118

Wireless Communications 55, 61, 139, 140, 146, 148, 149, 153

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