Selected research projects from my academic CV, with emphasis on the technical work, responsibilities, prototypes, and research themes behind each collaboration.
Research Projects
IMAGINE-B5G
Advanced 5G Open Platform for Large Scale Trials and Pilots across Europe
Contributed experience from 5GASP and previous 5G experimentation work to an open platform for large-scale 5G trials and pilots, with technical contributions around OpenSlice-based orchestration.
NEXUS
Green and Digital Transition for Transport, Logistics and Mobility
Coordinated Multi-Access Edge Computing technology development for the NEXUS 5G Connected Port task, supporting green and digital transition in transport, logistics, and mobility.
Route25
Agenda for Autonomous, Intelligent, Interoperable and Inclusive Mobility
Coordinated development of Multi-Access Edge Computing technology to support project applications, together with work on an electric-vehicle charging platform.
5GASP
5G Application & Services experimentation and certification Platform
Coordinated the international consortium, proposal writing, execution, and reporting to the European Commission. Contributed technically to the architecture, NFV management and orchestration, automated CI/CD testing, application validation, and community-building activities for self-service 5G network application testing and certification.
CODEIN
Cloud cOmputing for Digital Education Innovation
Developed University of Aveiro teaching content for modern distance-learning curricula in cloud computing and machine learning.
TWIN
Hybrid platform for orchestrated stateful services and communications
Co-promoted with GoContact to build a web-managed PaaS for agile provisioning and management of stateful services with latency and jitter requirements. Supervised the SDN and NFV development team.
SDRT
Software Defined Real-Time Health
Co-promoted with ThinkDigital to research indoor localization for hospital environments. Coordinated development of a machine-learning-based indoor localization system.
SCALE
Scalable Centralized Grid Protection, Automation and Control
Co-promoted with EFACEC to develop a platform for digital distribution substations. Supervised the orchestration of intelligent electronic devices in virtualized environments.
Augmanity
Augmented Humanity
Coordinated development of an IoT platform for data acquisition and processing, plus an intelligent energy-management agent for a factory environment using machine learning to detect failures and forecast consumption.
NetEdge
EDgE computing for end-users of optical Networks
Co-promoted with DSTelecom to develop a secure Multi-Access Edge Computing solution. Coordinated the edge-computing platform work and supervised a broad development team.
5GROWTH
5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries
Developed 5G technologies in close collaboration with verticals such as energy and rail transport. Coordinated work on inter-domain service orchestration.
Doppler
Development of PALOP Knowledge in Radio Astronomy
Contributed to a Portuguese-Mozambican partnership in radio astronomy, Earth observation, and big data. Delivered IoT and machine-learning training at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique.
5GO
Components and services for 5G networks
Participated in a national mobilizing project for integrated 5G products and services. Supervised development of a 5G service orchestration platform based on Open Source MANO.
CallBoB
Voice bot builder for call answering
Co-promoted with GoTelecom to create a tool for non-specialist users to build voice bots. Coordinated R&D on machine-learning-based automatic call-answering solutions.
CRUISE
Vehicle-infrastructure communication platform for traffic-impact integration
Studied road-traffic infrastructure and coordinated development of traffic monitoring systems based on vehicle recognition using deep neural networks.
SOCA
Smart Open Campus
Helped equip the University of Aveiro campus with smart capabilities through sensors, APIs, and an information aggregation platform. Coordinated M2M communication and data processing components, and led the demonstration and validation work package.
AENEAS
Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA
Supported European capacity building for the Square Kilometre Array, including cloud-based processing for radio astronomy signals and IoT monitoring for antenna environments.
SmartEnterCom
Intelligent Enterprise Communications
Co-promoted with Wavecom and GoTelecom to create and energize an industrial R&D unit. Led research on enterprise communication systems using context-aware interfaces and SDN, creating the basis for later projects including CallBoB and TWIN.
PASMO
Open platform for mobility solution development and experimentation
Contributed to an open experimentation platform for mobility solutions, coordinating the platform for project data and service exposure and a proof-of-concept application.
5GinFIRE
Evolving FIRE into a 5G-Oriented Experimental Playground for Vertical Industries
Developed a 5G experimentation platform integrated with the Future Internet Research and Experimentation infrastructure. Led the experimental-infrastructure architecture work package and worked on NFV management and orchestration.
PAYT
Tool to Reduce Waste in South Europe
Contributed to an IoT solution for pay-as-you-throw urban waste management and supervised work on the supporting information system.
SGH
Smart Green House
Co-promoted with BOSCH Termotecnologia. Helped write the DETI contribution to the proposal and led a team developing energy-efficiency and holistic supervision solutions, including industrial dissertation work on large-scale data visualization.
Apollo
Next Generation M2M Service Platform
Co-promoted with Portugal Telecom Inovacao to research and develop an orchestration platform for M2M services and applications. Led the project and the development of an ETSI M2M-based platform for rapid prototyping of M2M applications through dynamic service orchestration.
SCoT
Smart Cloud of Things
Deployed and configured a pilot data-acquisition platform in an agricultural field at Instituto Politecnico de Beja, extending the high-TRL platform developed through Apollo.
TVPulse
TVPulse
Researched methods for detecting television highlights from social-network activity, metadata, and semantic similarity signals, leading to publications on TV highlight detection.
RadioVoIP
Radio VoIP
Co-promoted with Wavecom to develop VoIP communication over dedicated radio links for maritime use. Coordinated the project and developed a WebRTC-based VoIP solution integrated with a geo-referenced fisheries management service.
CloudThinking
Cloud Thinking
Researched and developed solutions for offloading robot computation to cloud infrastructure, with responsibility for the project architecture.
MODCOM
Behavioural Modelling in Social Networks
Contributed to knowledge extraction from social networks, focusing on text collection and indexing techniques.
CSB
Cloud Service Broker
Researched cloud service brokerage concepts for mediating, selecting, and composing cloud services across providers, connected to later work on Cloud Service Broker supervision and publications.
SAIM
Servicos Avancados Aplicados a Inteligencia do Meio
Explored the convergence of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence for ambient intelligence services, becoming an early seed for later IoT and AI research work.
MEDIEVAL
MultiMEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications
Developed new Internet architecture concepts for improved video distribution. Supervised work on multimedia content distribution over IP multicast in mobility-enabled networks based on Mobile IP.
PIMTAS
Portable Internet Mobile Telecommunication Applications
Researched portable mobile Internet and telecommunications application concepts in collaboration with PT Inovacao.
ABBAN
IMS based Contact Center as a Service
Transferred research knowledge to a startup building a software-based contact-center SaaS product on 3GPP IMS. Designed the software architecture and helped assemble the research team that developed and validated an MVP in a real environment.
AMAZING
Advanced Mobile wIreless Network playGround
Co-defined an internal test and development platform for 802.11 and IP mobility solutions, including early management tooling and support for a broader student research team.
Onelab 2
Onelab 2
Contributed to the European component of PlanetLab by developing 802.11 measurement acquisition and exposing it to experimenters through web services. Administered the computational nodes assigned to the University of Aveiro.
C-Cast
Context Casting
Continued work from C-Mobile with a stronger focus on distributed multimedia services over IP multicast. Developed the multicast streaming platform, a Nokia N900 mobile client, and a context aggregation platform, while leading validation and testing.
LightRailway
Light Railway Video Streaming
Developed a proof of concept for fast mobility over 802.11 in a light-railway scenario, supporting RTP video surveillance streams between railway vehicles and stations using IP multicast.
C-Mobile
Advanced MBMS for the Future Mobile World
Researched extensions to 3GPP MBMS for efficient multimedia distribution over broadcast channels. Worked on signalling and multimedia service components using IMS and led the validation and testing work package.
Akogrimo
Access to Knowledge through the Grid in a Mobile World
Explored the doctoral research work in a mobile grid-computing context, adapting the DAIDALOS IP router prototype to project requirements, including SIP-based integration.
DAIDALOS
Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services
Developed Advanced Router Mechanisms for QoS, Mobile IP, and IP multicast support in beyond-3G IP networks. Also contributed substantially to project integration across the European consortium.
Moby Dick
Mobility and Differentiated Services in a Future IP Network
Integrated and tested an IP router prototype with QoS capabilities during the final undergraduate project, then continued as a research fellow by developing a C++ implementation of the COPS protocol later reused in doctoral work.
CARL
Communication, Action, Reasoning and Learning in Robotics
First research project as an undergraduate student, developing a natural-language processing system based on English grammars in Prolog with C bindings for speech recognition and synthesis.