Mónica Jorge Carvalho de Figueiredo

Mónica Figueiredo

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	14-05-2012
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group:	Integrated Circuits – Av

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Address: IT – Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Campus Universitário de Santiago
P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 234 377 900

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-3725

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30-10-2024

TWEVO startup of the month by Startup Leiria

TWEVO was a spin-off created in Instituto de Telecomunicações and Polytechnic of Leiria, by our researchers Carlos Ribeiro and Mónica Figueiredo, also professors in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic of Leiria.

12-01-2022

BacalhauNET team wins international competition of AI

BacalhauNET was the big winner of the ITU AI/ML in 5G Grand Challenge promoted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 01-01-2012
MSc, Universidade de Aveiro, 01-01-2003
Licenciatura, Universidade de Coimbra, 01-01-1999

Affiliations

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 02-04-2012, Professor Adjunto
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 01-10-1999 - 01-04-2012, Assistente

Expertise Topics

Digital Integrated Circuits
Circuits and Systems for Communications
Noise and Variability in Integrated Circuits
Visible Light Communications

Academic Activities

5Lecture courses

Eletrónica Programável, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Engenharia Electrotécnica - Ramo de Electrónica e Computadores
Sistemas Eletrónicos, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Mestrado em Eng. Eletrotécnica
Sistemas Digitais, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Engenharia Electrotécnica
Laboratório de Telecomunicações, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Engenharia Eletrotécnica
Introdução à Investigação, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Mestrado em Eng. Eletrotécnica

1Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

Visible Light Communications Systems Architectures for IoT, PhD Student, Luis Filipe Abade Rodrigues, Expected conclusion 12-2025

9Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Dissertation, MSc Student, João Baltazar, Concluded 09-2024
EXPLORING TRANSFORMER MODEL FOR ACOUSTIC SCENE CLASSIFICATION, MSc Student, Federico Piovesan, Concluded 07-2024
Exploring HLS Strategies in Computer Vision Algorithms, MSc Student, Pedro Miguel da Costa Azevedo, Concluded 07-2024
Comunicações Óticas por Câmara para Aplicações IoT, MSc Student, Dário Fernandes, Concluded 11-2023
Object Detection in Maritime Environments Using Metadata, MSc Student, Diogo Samuel Fernandes, Concluded 07-2023
Classificação de cenas acústicas em dispositivos com constrangimentos computacionais utilizando inteligência artificial, MSc Student, Ricardo Ribeiro Anastácio, Concluded 12-2022
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR EDGE DEVICES - FPGAs, MSc Student, José Nuno Grácio Rosa, Concluded 07-2022
Implementation of radar image recognition algorithms on FPGA, MSc Student, Miguel Valente Santos, Concluded 09-2021
Drivers para VLC, MSc Student, Pedro Camacho, Concluded 11-2016

2Supervision of BSc theses

As Co-supervisor

RF Detection and Localisation System - ver2, BSc Student, João Paulo Gomes Neto, Concluded 07-2013
RF Location and detection system, BSc Student, Marco Roda, Concluded 07-2012

Publications

1Books Chapters

M. Figueiredo, C. Ribeiro, OFDM-Based VLC Systems FPGA Prototyping, Chapter in, Visible Light Communications: Theory and Applications, CRC-Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2017

13Papers in Journals

S. TELI, V. Matus, O. Younus, K. J, X. Li, N. Hassan, B. LIN, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, A. Vegni, S. Zvanovec, R. Perez-Jimenez, Z. Ghassemlooy, Optical camera communications: concept, marketing, implementation, challenges and applications, science china information sciences, Vol. 68, No. 10, pp. -, August, 2025,
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C. Ribeiro, J.M. Gil, X. Bento, M. Figueiredo, J. Rosa, R. Antonio, L.F. Ferreira, P.A. Assunção, VIEXPAND – Industrial Video for Expanded Vision in Remote Operations, international journal of industrial engineering and management, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 291 - 303, December, 2024,
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M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Guest Editorial: Selected papers from the 8th Biennial Colloquium & 6th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, IET Optoelectronics, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 87 - 90, August, 2023 | BibTex
L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Z. Ghassemlooy, Carrier synchronisation in multiband carrierless amplitude and phase modulation for visible light communication‐based IoT systems, IET Optoelectronics, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 120 - 128, June, 2023 | BibTex
J. Rosa, D. Granhao, G. Carvalho, T. Gonçalves, M. Figueiredo, L. Bento, N. Paulino, L. Pessoa, BacalhauNet: A tiny CNN for lightning-fast modulation classification, itu journal: ict discoveries, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 252 - 260, September, 2022 | BibTex
X. Li, Z. Ghassemlooy, S. Zvanovec, L. Alves, M. Figueiredo, M. Zhang, S. Mana, V. Jungnickel, P. Chvojka, A Full-digital M-CAP Receiver with Synchronisation and Adaptive Blind Equalisation for Visible Light Communications, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 2409 - 2426, April, 2022,
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L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Optimized Analog Multi-Band Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulation for Visible Light Communication-Based Internet of Things Systems, Sensors, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 2537 - 2537, April, 2021 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, C. Ribeiro, Lighting the Wireless World, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 28 - 37, October, 2017 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, C. Ribeiro, A. Dobesch, L. Alves, OW Wilfert, Consumer LED lamp with ODAC technology for high-speed Visible Light Communications, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 63., No. 4, pp. n.a. - n.a., August, 2017 | BibTex
A. Dobesch, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, OW Wilfert, Performance Analysis of 8-bit ODACs for VLC Applications, Radioengineering, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 115 - 122, June, 2017 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, R. Aguiar, A Jitter Insertion and Accumulation Model for Clock Repeaters, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. Vol.E95-A, No. No.12, pp. 2430 - 2442, December, 2012 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, R. Aguiar, A Dynamic Jitter Model to Evaluate Uncertainty Trends with Technology Scaling, Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 162 - 171, March, 2012,
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R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Design and Perfomance of 155Mbps Clock/Data Recovery Circuits on Heavy Loaded PLDs, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 43, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, May, 2005 | BibTex

38Papers in Conferences

L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Z. Ghassemlooy, A Packet-based Analog m-CAP Visible Light Communication System for Internet of Things, 14th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP CSNDSP2024, Rome, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 389 - 394, July, 2024,
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V. Matus, A. Usmani, M. Figueiredo, P. Fonseca, S. Zvanovec, R. Perez-Jimenez, L. Alves, Self-Clocking Constant-Power Multi-Level Scheme for Optical Camera Communication, 14th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP CSNDSP2024, Rome, Italy, July, 2024 | BibTex
MLR Rêgo, M. Figueiredo, P. Fonseca, L. Alves, On Using the Raspberry Pi Camera to Receive 8-PAM Signals in Optical Camera Communication, 14th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP CSNDSP2024, Rome, Italy, July, 2024 | BibTex
V. Matus, A. Usmani, M. Figueiredo, P.F. Fonseca, S. Zvanovec, R. Perez-Jimenez, L. Alves, Self-Clocking Constant-Power Multi-Level Scheme for Optical Camera Communication, International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP) CSNDSP, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. -, July, 2024 | BibTex
V. Matus, A. Usmani, M. Figueiredo, P. Fonseca, S. Zvanovec, R. Perez-Jimenez, L. Alves, Experimental Demonstration of a Self-Clocking Pulse-Amplitude Modulation for Optical Camera Communication in Artificial Ambient Light, International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking, BalkanCom BalkanCom, Lublijana, Slovenia, June, 2024 | BibTex
V. Matus, A. Usmani, M. Figueiredo, P.F. Fonseca, S. Zvanovec, R. Perez-Jimenez, L. Alves, Experimental Demonstration of a Self-Clocking Pulse-Amplitude Modulation for Optical Camera Communication in Artificial Ambient Light, International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking, BalkanCom BalkanCom, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June, 2024 | BibTex
D. Fernandes, V. Matus, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Asynchronous encoding scheme for optical camera communication system using two-dimensional transmitter, South American Conference On Visible Light Communications SACVLC, Santiago, Chile, November, 2023,
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M. Figueiredo, Enhancing Object Detection in Maritime Environments Using Metadata, Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition - CIARP, Coimbra, Portugal, November, 2023 | BibTex
R. Antonio, J. Rosa, L.F. Ferreira, M. Figueiredo, P.A. Assunção, C. Ribeiro, Enhanced Object Detection in Highly Compressed Images using Regions of Interest, International Conference on Sensors, Signal and Image Processing SSIP, Nanjing, China, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023,
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L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Z. Ghassemlooy, Visible Light Communication Systems Architectures for the Internet of Things, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things WF-IoT, Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2023,
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J. Rosa, R. Antonio, L.F. Ferreira, M. Figueiredo, P.A. Assunção, C. Ribeiro, Rate Control Method for Video Encoders Operating in Industrial Environments, Asia Symposium on Image Processing ASIP, Tianjin, China, June, 2023,
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C. Ribeiro, M. Figueiredo, P.A. Assunção, L.F. Ferreira, J.M. Gil, X. Bento, Real-Time Industrial Machine Vision Supervision using DPU-based Edge Devices, International Conference on Environment and Industrial Innovation ICEII, Vienna, Austria, June, 2023,
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L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Implementation of a Visible Light Communications testbed in FPGA, REC2022 - XVIII Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis REC2022, Leiria, Portugal, July, 2022,
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L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Z. Ghassemlooy, Experimental validation of analog m-CAP receivers for Internet of Things, 13th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022,
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L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Z. Ghassemlooy, VLC frontends for IoT applications, West-Asian Coloquium on Optical Wireless Communications WACOWC, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022,
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J. Rosa, M. Figueiredo, L. B. Bento, CNN implementation in Resource Limited FPGAs - Key Concepts and Techniques, Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis - REC, Porto, Portugal, July, 2021 | BibTex
L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, Analog m-CAP demodulation for VLC-based IoT systems, 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing- CSNDSP, Porto, Portugal, July, 2020 | BibTex
K.S. Sushmitha, P. Camacho, L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, L. Alves, J. C. Mendes, M. Figueiredo, Thermal Analysis of high power LEDs using different PCB material, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Catania, Italy, September, 2017,
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L. Duarte, L. Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, C. Ribeiro, L. Alves, DLL architecture for OFDM based VLC, IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. n.a., pp. 1 - 6, July, 2016,
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M. Figueiredo, C. Ribeiro, L. Alves, Live Demonstration: 150Mbps+ DCO-OFDM VLC, IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS, Montreal, Canada, Vol. n.a., pp. 457 - 457, May, 2016,
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C. Ribeiro, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, L. Duarte, L. Rodrigues, P. Rodrigues, VLCLighting - A Collaborative Research Project on Visible Light Communication, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2015,
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C. Ribeiro, M. Figueiredo, L. Alves, A Real-Time Platform for Collaborative Research on Visible Light Communication, IEEE International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications - IWOW, Istambul, Turkey, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 5, September, 2015,
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L. Duarte, L. Rodrigues Rodrigues, P. Rodrigues, L. Alves, M. Figueiredo, C. Ribeiro, VLCLighting - A Collaborative Research Project on Visible Light Communication, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, July, 2015,
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JP Barraca, L. Alves, M. Figueiredo, Electronic Shelf Labeling Employing Visible Light Communication Concepts, IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP, Manchester, United Kingdom, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, June, 2014 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, R. Aguiar, Uncertainty in DLL Deskewing Schemes, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Integrated Systems - ICECS, Seville, Spain, Vol. n.a., pp. 841 - 844, December, 2012 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, R. Aguiar, Dynamic Jitter Accumulation in Clock Repeaters Considering Power and Ground Noise Correlations, IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. n.a., pp. n.a. - n.a., May, 2011 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Clock Repeater Characterization for Jitter-Aware Clock Tree Synthesis, International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation - PATMOS, Delft, Netherlands, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2009 | BibTex
M. Figueiredo, R. Aguiar, Time Precision Comparison of Digitally Controlled Delay Elements, IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2009,
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J. P. Pinhal, B. D. Dias, M. Figueiredo, Desempenho de TDCs para Medição de Jitter em FPGAs de Baixo Custo, Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores do ISEL, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2008 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, A Study on CMOS Time Uncertainty with Technology Scaling, International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation - PATMOS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2008,
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R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Predicting Noise and Jitter in CMOS Inverters, IEEE PhD. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - PRIME, Bordeaux, France, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, July, 2007 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Noise Induced Jitter Performance of Digitally Controlled CMOS Delay Lines, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, May, 2007 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Noise and Jitter in CMOS Digitally Controlled Delay Lines, IEEE Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and System, Nice, France, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2006 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Performance of 155Mbps Clock/data Recovery Circuits on Heavy Loaded PLDs, IEEE Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and System, Sharjan, United Arab Emirates, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, December, 2003 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Resource Constrained 155Mbps Clock and Data Recovery with 4x Oversampling and Jitter Reduction, Conf. on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Malaga, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2002 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Resource Constrained Clock Recovery on Programmable Logic Devices, IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2002 | BibTex
R. Aguiar, M. Figueiredo, Métodos de Recuperação de Relógio em Dispositivos de Lógica Programável, Conf. Científica e Tecnológica em Engenharia - CCTE, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, May, 2002 | BibTex
L. Alves, L. Mendes, C. Lopes, T. Fernandes, P.A. Assunção, S.M.M. Faria, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo, SimSAT – Desenvolvimento de Satélites de Baixa Altitude, Encontro do Colégio de Electrotecnia da Ordem dos Engenheiros, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236210137_SimSAT_-_Desenvolvimento_de_Satelites_de_Baixa_Altitude, April, 2001 | BibTex

Projects

Closed Projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
IMPCLOCK	Implementation of feedback-based clock distribution systems	FCT/POCTI	01-07-2004	01-07-2006
VLCLighting	Visible Light Communications for LED based Public Lighting Systems	IT/LA	01-11-2014	01-11-2016

Other Contributions

5Conference Committees

IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP, Conference co-chair, 2024
IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP, Organizing Committee, 2022
IEEE International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications - IWOW, Organizing Committee, 2022
REC2022 - XVIII Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis REC2022, Organizing Committee, 2022
IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP, Technical Programme Committee, 2018

2Editorial Committees

Editorial Board, IET Optoelectronics, 01-10-2024 - 28-02-2025
Guest Editor, IET Optoelectronics, 22-07-2022 - 01-08-2023

7Refereeing Journals

IEEE Communications Magazine
2018, 2 review(s);
Physical Communication
2018, 2 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
2018, 1 review(s);
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - Part II: Analog Digital Signal Processing
2010, 2 review(s);
IEEE Trans. on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
2013, 2 review(s);
IET Circuits, Devices and Systems
2013, 1 review(s);
Indian Journal of Engineering
2013, 1 review(s);

2Refereeing Conferences

IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS
2014, 1 review(s);
IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP
2018, 1 review(s);

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IT Member Profile

Mónica Figueiredo

30-10-2024

TWEVO startup of the month by Startup Leiria

12-01-2022

BacalhauNET team wins international competition of AI

Scientific Achievements

As Co-supervisor

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

Closed Projects2