Alexandre Manuel de Castro Passos de Almeida

Alexandre Almeida

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-01-1999
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Wireless Technologies
Group:	Radio Systems – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-4813-6164

26-02-2021

ExpoLIS wants to give Lisbon residents an app to avoid air pollution exposure

Another step forward in the ideology of smart cities — it’s what best describes the ExpoLIS project, which aims to deploy a network of low-cost sensors on Lisbon’s public buses and trams to raise awareness on the city’s air quality.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-01-2013
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2000

Affiliations

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-1997, Member

Expertise Topics

Embedded Systems
Microcontrolers
Electronic Circuit Design
Digital Signal Processing
Neural networks

Academic Activities

6Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Rede de sensores para medida de poluição ambiental usando metodologias open source/open hardware, MSc Student, Mariana de Almeida Barros, Concluded 10-2020
poRsCHE - Remote Control via Head movEs, MSc Student, José Alberto Porfírio Pequeno Lourenço, Concluded 12-2016

As Co-supervisor

Redes de sensores móveis para monitorização da qualidade do ar, MSc Student, Rafael Alexandre Gonçalves Monteiro, Concluded 09-2020
Análise de Desempenho do MongoDB em cenários de elevada distribuição e partição de dados, MSc Student, Joana Micaela da Silva Rodrigues, Concluded 12-2018
Motion-induced sound level control for socially-aware robot navigation, MSc Student, João Paulo Cordeiro Andrade, Concluded 11-2018
PROSHOT - assistente pessoal de fotografia, MSc Student, Pedro Miguel da Luz Cabrita de Sousa Brosque, Concluded 10-2018

Publications

3Papers in Journals

J. Andrade, P. Santana, A. Almeida, Self-Supervised Learning of Motion-Induced Acoustic Noise Awareness in Social Robots, Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 3 - 14, July, 2019 | BibTex
A. Almeida, Generation of Sidel'nikov sequences and their spectra via permutations, Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, Vol. 47, No. 19, pp. 1079 - 1081, September, 2011 | BibTex
A. Almeida, Digitally programmable analog building blocks for the implementation of artificial neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 506 - 514, March, 1996 | BibTex

11Papers in Conferences

P. Mariano, (S. A.) Almeida, A. Almeida, J.A. Moura, T. Brandão, P. Santana, An Information System for Air Quality Monitoring using Mobile Sensor Networks, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics ICINCO, LIsbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 236 - 246, July, 2022,
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A. Almeida, Harvesting indoor available light for low-power wireless networks, Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications WINCOM, Marraquesh, Morocco, October, 2018,
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J. Andrade, P. Santana, A. Almeida, Motion-Induced Acoustic Noise Awareness for Socially-Aware Robot Navigation, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions ICARSC, Torres Vedras, Portugal, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, April, 2018 | BibTex
J. Andrade, A. Almeida, P. Santana, Motion-induced acoustic noise awareness for socially-aware robot navigation, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions ICARSC, Torres Vedras, United States, April, 2018,
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A. Almeida, Cercas, F. Cercas, P. Sebastião, Performance of generalized TCH codes for Rayleigh channels, International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 384 - 389, May, 2014 | BibTex
A. Almeida, Generalized TCH codes via Zech logs, IEEE Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE), 2012 International Symposium on ISSSE, Potsdam, Germany, Vol. I, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2012 | BibTex
A. Almeida, On the structure of Sidel'nikov sequences for Pythagorean primes, IEEE Signals, Systems, and Electronics (ISSSE), 2012 International Symposium on ISSSE, Potsdam, Germany, Vol. I, pp. 1 - 6, October, 2012 | BibTex
A. Almeida, R. Dinis, Cercas, F. Cercas, On the use of TCH Codes in ultraWide band systems, IASTED International Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - SPPRA, Innsbruck, Austria, Vol. *, pp. * - *, February, 2011,
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A. Almeida, An FFT-based acquisition scheme for DS-CDMA systems, IEEE International Symp. on Communications and Information Technologies - ISCIT, Sydney, Australia, Vol. I, pp. 905 - 910, October, 2007 | BibTex
A. Almeida, J.E. Franca, Digitally-programmable analog cells for artificial neural networks, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference CICC, San Diego, United States, Vol. I, pp. 566 - 569, May, 1994 | BibTex
A. Almeida, J.E. Franca, A mixed-mode architecture for implementation of analog neural networks with digital programmability, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN, Nagoya, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 887 - 890, October, 1993 | BibTex

Projects

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
B-BONE	Broadcasting and Multicasting Over Enhanced UMTS Mobile Broadband Networks	EU	01-02-2004	30-06-2006

Other Scientific Achievements

1Awards

A. Almeida, Pedagogical Excellence, First prize attributed by the School of Technology and Architecture for pedagogical work selecting and applying techniques, and teaching the most appropriate methods to the objectives defined for self-assess performance, motivation, and to achieve the desired competence profile., 01-12-2016

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