Manuel Pereira

PhD Student @ IST
Research Assistant @ INESC - ID
Research Assistant @ ITI - LARSyS

With my neverending curiosity Im pursuing my PhD. My research interests are Earth Observation applications, Electric Vehicles and Green Energy

Education

Completed a bachelors degree in Computer Science in Universidade da Madeira

Completed a Masters degree in Computer Science in Universidade da Madeira

  • Masters Thesis: TerraSenseTK: A Toolkit for remote soil nutrient estimation

Currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico

  • Provisional PhD Thesis: ORCHESTRA:Optimized Routing and Charging of Electric Vehicles using Satellite and Traffic Information

Research

Developed DSCleaner

A python package for performing pre-processing and conversion of high frequency energy datasets.

Improved EMD-DF64

Updated the EMD dataformat, originally written in Java to SonyWave64, removing in this way the limitation of 4GB files in the original Wave file format.

Developed TerraSenseTK,

TerraSenseTK , a toolkit for remote nutrient soil estimation, was the culmination of my Masters Dissertation. The aim of this thesis was to create a tool to aid field experts to perform machine learning experiments with few programming experience.

Participated in the EV4EU Project

EV4EU is a CORDIS project funded by European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101056765. My role in this project is related to the development of smart strategies to avoid wasting solar energy and using the vehicle as a battery using V2G technology. This work resulted in simulators that are internally used for generating reports and key findings while exploring different ways and finding the most efficient approach.

Industry

  • Microsoft Developer @ Unipartner Madeira (2021-2022)
  • Microsoft Developer, Tech Lead @ Unipartner Madeira (2022-2023)

Publications