Running PhD Theses: 20

Student	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor	Title	End date
Ana Sofia Cacais do Carmo	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Non-Intrusive Fog-Cloud Computing for Epilepsy	12 / 9999
Pedro Guedes de Campos Martin	Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso	Quality Assessment and Optimization of 6DoF 360º Video Streaming	12 / 9999
Ramna Maqsood	Caroline Conti	Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares	Multi-modal detection using deep learning	12 / 9999
Mohammadreza Ghafari	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda	Deep Learning-based Scalable Point Cloud Coding	12 / 2027
Md Tahsir Ahmed Munna	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso		Deep Learning Image Coding	9 / 2026
Nasrin Tavakolizadeh	Nuno Gonçalo Coelho Costa Pombo		Advanced Algorithms and Software Development for Crustal Deformation Monitoring	7 / 2026
Shima Mohammadi	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso		Deep Learning based Image Coding: Quality Assessment and Perceptual Optimization	12 / 2025
Laura Acácio	Octavian Postolache		Implementação de Serviços Telemáticos: Caso da Sinalética Digital no Hospital Central de Nampula-Nampula	12 / 2025
Abdelrahman Seleem Mohamed Seleem	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues	Deep Learning-based Compressed Domain PC Super-resolution Visual	12 / 2025
Vicente Mayer Mendonça de Lima Garção	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Invisibles for Health Monitoring in Chronic Conditions	12 / 2025
Muhammad Zubair	Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes	Caroline Conti	Light Field Coding and Transmission using Deep Learning	11 / 2025
Joana Cabral Amaral Nunes da Costa	Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio	Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença	Defense Mechanisms for Deep Learning Applied to Facial Recognition in Real Contexts	9 / 2025
António José Evaristo Farinhas	André Filipe Torres Martins		Quality-Aware Machine Translation	2 / 2025
Patrícia Justo Bota	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Autonomous Scentic States Assessment: A Pervasive Approach for Wellness Monitoring	12 / 2024
Mariana Lima Lourinho Teixeira de Abreu	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	A Multimodal Approach for Epileptic Seizures Assessment and Prediction	12 / 2024
Carolina Freire Rodrigues	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Multimodal approach of patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot	12 / 2024
Nuno Alexandre Bettencourt Martins	Luis Alberto da Silva Cruz	Fernando Jose Pimentel Lopes	LiDAR Point Cloud Compression for Resource Constrained Applications	12 / 2024
Tiago Filipe Dias Santos Roxo	Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença		Action Recognition and Behavior Understanding in Surveillance Environments	10 / 2024
Rita Correia	Bruno Miguel Correia da Silva		SOPHIA – A Web Ecosystem for Fake or Malicious Text Reporting and Detection	9 / 2024
Bruno Manuel Degardin	Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença		Human Behavior Analysis	7 / 2024

Running MSc Theses: 12

Student	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor	Title	End date
Igor Koval	Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria	Luis Conde Bento	Complexity analysis of embedded microprocessors in portable applications	12 / 2024
Tiago Lages	Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio		Definindo o Equilíbrio entre Usabilidade e Conformidade com Proteção de Dados em Ambientes Hospitalares	9 / 2024
Raquel Sofia Brás Guerra	Maria Manuela Areias da Costa Pereira de Sousa		Holography coding and quality assessment	8 / 2024
Manuel Magalhães	Nuno Gonçalo Coelho Costa Pombo		IA and Testing	6 / 2024
Ânglo Morgado	Nuno Gonçalo Coelho Costa Pombo		Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Vehicles Simulation	6 / 2024
Fernando de Jesus Santos Pereira	Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria	Telmo Rui Carvalhinho Cunha Fernandes	Sistema de monitorização avançado para hidroponia	3 / 2024
Pedro Henrique Proença Carreira	João da Silva Pereira		DEEP LEARNING PARA RECONHECIMENTO DE VOZ EM APLICAÇÕES MÉDICAS (DEEPVOICE)	12 / 2023
Ricardo Ramos Nobre Correia	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	Explainable Deep Face Recognition	11 / 2023
João Pedro Carvalho Rodrigues	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Osvaldo Manuel da Rocha Pacheco	Image-based fish freshness estimation	11 / 2023
Leonardo Martinho Rosa	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Surfboards as Smart Distributed Biomechanical and Environmental Sensors	11 / 2023
Francisco Rodrigues Duarte	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Integrated Sensors for Ambient Monitoring	11 / 2023
Luis Miguel de Teles Pinto Rei	Maria Paula Prata de Sousa	Maria Eugénia Ferrão	Anonimização de dados – privacidade versus utilidade	10 / 2023

Completed PhD Theses: 14

Student	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor	Title	End date
Rao Yong	Isabel da Piedade Xavier Machado Alexandre		The Impact of Digital Technology on Business Operational Performance: A study on Chinese SMEs	7 / 2023
Tsvetomila Borisova Mihaylova	André Filipe Torres Martins	Vlad Niculae	DeepSPIN	6 / 2023
William Ruddock Primett	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Hugo Filipe Silveira Gamboa	Non-verbal Communication with Physiological Sensors: The Aesthetic Domain of Wearables and Neural Networks	5 / 2023
João Santinha	Mario Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo	Nikolaos Papanikolaou	Methods for Improving Generalizability and Robustness of Medical Imaging AI Models	4 / 2023
Daniel Osório	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Hugo Filipe Silveira Gamboa	Novel Approaches to Pervasive and Remote Sensing in Cardiovascular Disease Assessment	3 / 2023
Falah Jabar Rahim	Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso	Assessment and Optimization of Omnidirectional Images Viewport Rendering	10 / 2022
José Maria da Silva Moreira	Mario Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo	Nikolaos Papanikolaou	Towards Clinically Relevant Machine Learning for Medical Imaging: Applications to Segmentation, Classification, and Survival Prediction	10 / 2022
Benjamin Paul Oscar Peters	André Filipe Torres Martins		DeepSPIN	10 / 2022
Pedro Henrique Alves Martins	André Filipe Torres Martins	Zita Alexandra Magalhaes Marinho	Sparsity and Structure for Attention and Text Generation	10 / 2022
Ivo Miguel da Fonseca Gravito Soares	António Manuel Gonçalves Pinheiro	Miguel Castelo Branco	Computational Analysis of Fundus Images Rule­Based and Scale­Space Models	7 / 2022
Francisco Lima Andrade	Mario Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo	João Manuel de Freitas Xavier	Distributed Banach-Picard Iteration with Applications to Inference Problems	7 / 2022
André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	Nuno Miguel Morais Rodrigues	Deep learning-based point cloud geometry coding	11 / 2021
Alireza Javaheri	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	Point Cloud Quality Assessment	5 / 2021
Luiz António Zanlorensi	Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença	David Menotti	Deep representations for Iris and Periocular Biometrics	4 / 2021

Completed MSc Theses: 83

Student	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor	Title	End date
Margarida Veloso Branco Lopes Ramalho	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Augmented Reality Display with Hands-free Control for Surgical Procedure Enhancement: An Electromyographic-based approach	7 / 2023
Francisco Vieira Ramos Ferreira	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso	Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites Ascenso	Compressed Domain Face Recognition	5 / 2023
Ruben Duarte Antonio	Pedro Antonio Amado Assunção	Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria	Learning-based image compression using multiple autoencoders	3 / 2023
Marta Almeida de Aragão Veiga Coelho	Caroline Conti	Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares	Application for Light Field Inpainting	12 / 2022
Ronielson Baptista Lima	Caroline Conti	Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes	Light Field Saliency Detection using Deep Learning: A Comparative Study	12 / 2022
Diogo Moreira da Silva Eira Leitão	Mario Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo	Pedro Saleiro	Fairness enhancing interventions based on model uncertainty	12 / 2022
José Maria Pereira Rosa Correia Pombal	Mario Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo	Pedro Saleiro	(Un)Fairness through a causal lens	12 / 2022
Sofia Margarida Marques Monteiro	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	A Novel System for Cardiovascular Screening Based on Simultaneous Phonocardiography and Electrocardiography During Auscultation	12 / 2022
Marçal Bravo Padrós	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Electrocardiogram Restoration for Wearable Devices using Deep Neural Networks	12 / 2022
Leonor Montalto e Frade de Alves Pereira	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	A Novel Smart Chair System for Optimisation of Workplace Conditions in Office Workers	12 / 2022
João Paulo Ribeiro Costa Ramalho Alves	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Facial Emotion Recognition for Mental Well-being Assessment in the Workplace	12 / 2022
Raúl Kevin do Espirito Santo Viana	António Navarro Rodrigues	Pedro Antonio Amado Assunção	Deep learning architecture for fast intra-mode CUs partitioning in VVC	12 / 2022
João M. Areias Saraiva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Denoising and Artifact Removal of Ambulatory Electrocardiogram for Patient Continuous-Monitoring	12 / 2022
Diogo Miguel Dos Santos Mendes	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Simão Pedro Marques Pinto de Faria	Multiple Instance Learning for Backscattered Signal Classification	12 / 2022
José Luís Almeida Pereira	Sancho Moura Oliveira	Diana Mendes	Previsão de preços de criptomoedas usando redes neurais LSTM	12 / 2022
Manuel de Quintanilha Mantas Moura	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Identifying Winning Companies using Financial Indicators with an Ensemble Classifier and a Risk-Off Filter	12 / 2022
Martim Nascimento de Freitas Trindade Pita	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Portfolio Trading System Based on Fundamental Analysis Stock Rankings Using a Machine Learning Ensemble Model	12 / 2022
Pedro Gonçalo Silva Fernandes	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Cryptocurrency price direction prediction through ensembles of machine learning algorithms allied with percentage resampling	12 / 2022
Pedro Emanuel dos Santos Ramos	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Learning To Rank, Pairwise And Listwise for the Stock Market	12 / 2022
Miguel Oliveira Santos	Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria	Telmo Rui Carvalhinho Cunha Fernandes	Sistema de Comunicação em Ambiente Aquático para Medição do Desempenho Físico em Atletas	11 / 2022
João Miguel Sarmento Jacob e Sousa Isidoro	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia		Morphing Attacks to Face Recognition Systems	11 / 2022
Maria Teresa Morgado Melvill de Araújo	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia		Augmented Reality in the Cardiac Surgery Room	11 / 2022
Tomás Souto Lopes do Rosário,	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Osvaldo Manuel da Rocha Pacheco	Sistema automático de avaliação da qualidade de pescado	11 / 2022
Manuel Maria de Ornelas Marques Ruivo	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda	Learning-based point cloud geometry coding: integrating sampling tools for increased RD performance	11 / 2022
Luís Adriano Martins Pinto Coelho	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda	Learning-based point cloud geometry and color coding	11 / 2022
Edgar Ramos Varela	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Smart Undergarment for Firefighter Monitoring under Dynamic Conditions	11 / 2022
João Miguel Areias Saraiva	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Deep Residual Learning for Epileptic Seizure Prediction and Tools to Expedite Biosignal Research	11 / 2022
João Maria Janeiro	André Filipe Torres Martins		Grammar Error Correction for Neural Machine Translation	10 / 2022
Luís Miguel Pinto Loureiro	Artur Jorge Ferreira	Andre Ribeiro Lourenco	Driver profile classification	9 / 2022
Nuno José Cancela Branco Pinheira Pereira	Artur Jorge Ferreira		A tool to simplify software log analysis	9 / 2022
Sérgio Machado	Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos		Learning the Graph of Networked Dynamical Systems under Partial-observability via Artificial Neural Networks	9 / 2022
Rodrigo Henriques da Silva Lopes	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Hybrid System of Classification Algorithms Voting System with Genetic Algorithm for Dividend Stocks Ranking	8 / 2022
Luís Guilherme Berenguer Todo Bom	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda	Learning-based point cloud geometry and color coding	7 / 2022
Filipe José Marques Salgueiro	Pedro Antonio Amado Assunção	Rui Manuel Fonseca Pinto	Sistema de Aquisição de Imagens Stereo para Laser Speckle	7 / 2022
Diana Gomes Fernandes Rodrigues	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Touchless control of Augmented Reality Device	6 / 2022
Gonçalo Rui Alves Faria	Mario Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo	André Filipe Torres Martins	Differential Causal Discovery	5 / 2022
Sara Viveiros Ponte	Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares	Nuno Miguel de Pinto Lobo e Matela	Increased Fall Risk Evaluation in the Elderly: A Video-based Approach for Gait Analysis	3 / 2022
Adara Stefanny Rodrigues Nogueira	Artur Jorge Ferreira		Clinical Data Mining and Classification	3 / 2022
Francisco Diogo Rodrigues Venâncio	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Applying Sound Financial Data Processing Techniques to a LightGBM Model for Use in Cryptocurrency Trading	1 / 2022
Marcos Miguel Teixeira Pereira Mateus	Luís Filipe Lourenço Bernardo	Daniela Vanessa Joaquim Oliveira	End-to-end Performance Analysis of a Resource Allocation Service	1 / 2022
Rita Correia	Bruno Miguel Correia da Silva		Platform for Micro-interaction for Online Text	12 / 2021
Pedro Guedes de Campos Martin	Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues	Ivo Luís de la Cerda Garcia e Sousa	Scheduling Algorithms for 360º Video Streaming over Wireless Networks	12 / 2021
Laura Luísa Silva de Sousa	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Joana Mendonça	Beyond the prototype: Exploitation strategies for proof of concept biomedical devices	12 / 2021
Vicente Mayer Mendonça de Lima Garção	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	LAMPSY - A Novel Epilepsy Video Monitoring and Seizure Detection Device	12 / 2021
Leonor Ribeiro Godinho	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	A Neuroorganoleptics Approach to Consumer Acceptance Analysis of Food Products Based on Peripheral Psychophysiological Signals	12 / 2021
Paulo Jorge Laranjeira Bernardo	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Analysis of the viability of a Dynamic GA coupled with Fuzzy Membership functions in the Forex Market	12 / 2021
Francisco Marques Cruz Rodrigues	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Portfolio Optimization using Fundamental Analysis with a Logistic Regression Approach	12 / 2021
Jorge Miguel Gonçalves Simões	Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo		FlexOmics: Flexible Toolkit for Genomic Statistical Analysis	12 / 2021
Ana Catarina Pinheiro Monteiro	Sérgio Armindo Lopes Crisóstomo	Rita Paula Almeida Ribeiro	Análise de Séries Temporais de Dados Meteorológicos da Cidade do Porto	12 / 2021
Diogo Bárbara da Palma Inácio	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Pedro Oliveira	Técnicas de aprendizagem aplicadas à deteção de defeitos em pavimentos rodoviários	11 / 2021
João Barbosa Tareco	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Paulo Sergio de Brito Andre	Perceptual Hashing for Authentication using Physically Unclonable Functions	11 / 2021
Daniel Prazeres Baptista	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia		Multi-adversarial Domain Generalization to Improve Face Recognition Reliability	11 / 2021
Helena Cristina Frutuoso Oliveira	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso	Deep Learning-based Video Coding	11 / 2021
Guilherme Oliveira Costa Almeida Atanásio	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira	DeepFakes: Boosting Privacy and Aesthetics through Face Obfuscation	11 / 2021
João Oliveira Parracho	Pedro Antonio Amado Assunção	Lucas Arrabal Thomaz	Joint Coding of Multimodal Biomedical Images using convolutional Neural Networks	11 / 2021
Gonçalo Filipe Duarte Salvador	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Real World Group Emotional Analytics Using Electrodermal Activity Signals	11 / 2021
Rafael Luís Soares da Costa e Silva	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	An Artificial Intelligence Approach for Atrial Fibrillation Detection in Single-lead Invisible ECG	11 / 2021
Gustavo Marques Nunes Portugal	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Combining Channel Trading with Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Investments in Trending Forex Markets	11 / 2021
Francisco Sá Reis Machado e Costa	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Option Trading Based on Implied Volatility Forecasts using Genetic Algorithm	11 / 2021
Catarina Domingues Cardoso Costa	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Ranking system based on technical analysis allied with a fundamental data XGBoost classifier in Financial Markets	11 / 2021
Gustavo Henrique de Sousa Silva	Rui Jorge Henriques Calado Lopes	Ricardo Daniel Santos Faro Marques Ribeiro	Football players performance analysis and formal/informal media: Sentiment analysis and semantic similarity	10 / 2021
Sandrina Vieira	Isabel da Piedade Xavier Machado Alexandre	Elsa Cardoso	Research on User Experience for Children	10 / 2021
António Maria Picão de Abreu Ramos de Carvalho	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	How Augmented Reality will Help Surgeons and Patients	9 / 2021
João Carlos Marques Alves	Ana Gualdina Almeida Matos	Ana Patrícia Subtil da Graça Freitas Garcia	Bias in Citizen Science: an application to the BioDiversity4All project	9 / 2021
Guilherme Crespo Rodrigues Antunes Correia	Ana Gualdina Almeida Matos		The Shape of Collaboration Networks in Citizen Science Projects	9 / 2021
João Francisco Pronto Sebastião	Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues	João Miguel Duarte Ascenso	Evaluation of Head Movement Prediction Methods for 360º Video Streaming	9 / 2021
Larissa Montenegro	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Petra Margaritoff	Human-Assisted vs Deep learning Feature Extraction: an evaluation of ECG feature extraction methods for arrhythmia classification using machine learning	4 / 2021
Vasco Amorim do Amaral	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Hybrid System Combining Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines for Trading the Forex Market Intraday	3 / 2021
Wilson Gama dos Santos	Maria Paula Prata de Sousa	Maria Eugénia Ferrão	Anonimização de Dados em Educação	2 / 2021
Miguel Ângelo Rocha Magalhães	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Comparative Study of four Optimization Algorithms Applied to Stock Price Forecasting	2 / 2021
Francisco José Couto da Silva	Rui Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves		Selection of Sustainable Dividend Stocks Combining XGBoost with Genetic Algorithm	2 / 2021
Pedro Flores de Albuquerque	Paulo Luis Serras Lobato Correia		"Can the way you walk reflect your health?"	1 / 2021
Francisco António Agostinho Henriques	Pedro Antonio Amado Assunção	Joana Madeira Martins Costa	Object Detection in Omnidirectional Images	1 / 2021
Ana Sofia Cacais do Carmo	Ana Luisa Nobre Fred	Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva	EpiBOX: A Novel Approach to Long-Term Data Acquisition with Automatic Seizure Detection in Epilepsy	12 / 2020
Tiago Miguel da Silva Leão	Alexandra Sofia Martins de Carvalho	Sara Alexandra Cordeiro Madeira	Profiling ALS disease progression through data mining techniques	12 / 2020
André Cristóvão Neves Ferreira	Alexandra Sofia Martins de Carvalho	Susana Vinga	Predictive Medicine using Interpretable Recurrent Neural Networks	11 / 2020
Carolina de Seixas Serra Domingos Barata	Alexandra Sofia Martins de Carvalho	Susana Vinga	Longitudinal and survival analysis for rheumatic diseases’ prognosis	11 / 2020
António Fernando Crisóstomo Fraga	Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes	Luís Filipe Barbosa de Almeida Alexandre	Filipe António Emílio Cabeleira	11 / 2020
Filipe Cabeleira	Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes		ON THE ACCELERATION OF LATTICE BASED ALGORITHMS FOR POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOSYSTEMS	9 / 2019
António Cerca	Artur Jorge Ferreira	Andre Ribeiro Lourenco	Fatigue and drowsiness detection using inertial sensors and electrocardiogram	2 / 2019
Rui Santos Costa	Carlos Manuel Gutierrez Sá da Costa	Elsa Cardoso	Learning analytics: predicting student dropout using models.	12 / 2015
Ana Luísa Raimundo Rainha	Carlos Manuel Gutierrez Sá da Costa		Balanced scorecard na Administração Pública	12 / 2014
Nuno João Neves Mamede	Carlos Eduardo do Rego da Costa Salema		Simulação digital de processos	12 / 1984