Nila Bagheri completed a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, focusing her research on Photonics and designing gates based on photonic crystals. She finished my Master in Telecommunications, specifically in Antenna Design, particularly fractal antennas. Currently, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Beira Interior in Portugal, deeply passionate about exploring uncharted territories in wireless systems. Her research focus includes pioneering advancements in Spectrum Sharing, Cell-free mMIMO, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, and Photonic Crystal Antennas. She is motivated by thrill of discovery, committed to contributing to the relentless advancement of wireless technology.
Mário Jorge Pinto Cristóvão has a BSc and an MSc degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Coimbra, since July 2021 and February 2023, respectively. He has accumulated experience and knowledge in machine learning, automation, and parallel computing through three internships at AIBILI (2019), ActiveSpace (2020), and ASML in the Netherlands (2021/2022). Furthermore, he has R&D experience in artificial perception, mobile robotics, SLAM, and multi-sensor fusion, having been part of the SEMFIRE Portugal2020 project with a BSc fellowship (2022) on the development of artificial perception mechanisms for forestry robotics, as well as the SafeForest Large Scale CMU Portugal project.
José is a PhD candidate at Instituto Superior Técnico, within the Department of Electrotechnic Engineering. His topic is Optical Quantum Memories and applications to Quantum Communication, exploring quantum information and light-matter interaction. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico.
Francisco Braga is a PhD student at NOVA School of Science and Technology, working on Computer Music. Francisco obtained my Integrated Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico where he first got interested in these fields. He intends to focus on the use of emotion and structure in AI musical composition.
Alessandro Gambetti is a PhD Student of Human-Computer Interaction at the Nova School of Science and Technology in the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, Lisbon, Portugal. He received an MSc in Finance from Nova SBE, majoring in Data and Business Analytics, and he holds a BSc in Economics & Finance from the Alma Mater Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. His research interests span from applied data science and machine learning in human-computer interaction, information systems, as well as healthcare.
Afonso Lourenço has earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from FEUP. His research interests primarily focus on data stream mining, a field dedicated to extracting valuable insights from data that is continuously in flux.
Electric Engineering and Computer Science MSc. who has information and interaction technologies for childhood education as a main research interest. His doctoral work regards the co-design of a playful informal learning management system for primary education – a tool to help integrate everyday and implicit learning activities into educational systems and, by introducing interactive narratives set in fantastical universes starring characters to whom children are bonded by their learning, engage children in the management of these activities. The CMU Portugal program provided a unique opportunity to work with a reference scholar, and respective research group, on the topic of transformational play.
I am a CS PhD student at Nova SST, working in: Network Security, Fault Tolerant Distributed Systems, Blockchains, and Privacy-Preserving Computation. I have great interest in all aforementioned areas and aim to explore them further during my PhD, all the while finding engaging problems and trying my hand at fixing them (hopefully with some success).
In 2021 I graduated with a master’s degree in electrical and computer Engineering from Universidade de Coimbra. With a double major in automation and computers. In 2022, I was awarded a fellowship grant to join the SAFEFOREST project (a CMU-Portugal project). My research is focused on research path and motion planners, as well as develop a system using Gazebo and MoveIt (a ROS framework) to compare several path planning algorithms that help a wheeled robot navigate through an octree representation of its surroundings.
