Hélder P. Oliveira Hélder P. Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1980. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004, received the M.Sc. degree in Automation, Instrumentation and Control in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2013 at the Faculty of...

Water pollution is a severe worldwide problem that urgently requires development of novel sensing concepts allowing for monitoring contaminants at very low concentrations.The ambitious aim of the SAFE WATER project is to design, implement and validate a new portable optical instrument, for in situ a...

António Galrão Ramos has a M.Sc. degree in Logistics by the Porto Business School, University of Porto, Portugal and a PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, by the University of Porto. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School...

The primary objective of the e-LOG project is to create a methodology to assess the environmental impacts of different retail strategies, taking into consideration the origin, mode of transport and the destination of products. The research will be focused on transport in a strict sense. The estimate...

Rui E. Araújo received the electrical engineering graduation, M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal in 1987, 1992 and 2001, respectively. From 1987 to 1998, he was an Electrotechnical Engineer in Project Department, Adira Company, Porto, Portu...

Ricardo Sousa has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto since 2011 and is currently a assistant researcher and assistant to the coordination at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) at INESC TEC. He pa...

The production of biomass in a sustainable way is increasingly a necessity to meet current needs. In this project it is intended to make an optimal production of algae using a water circuit from fish aquaculture. This production optimization will have real-time monitoring with specific sensors and a...

Improved design of an existing benchmark to evaluate different data processing tools on scalable DataFrames; Implementation of new advanced features of the existing benchmark that allow the evaluation and analysis of trade-offs between performance and energy efficiency in distributed environments w...