Master’s Thesis Defense Dates: December
| 📆 Day | 🕒 Time | 📌 Student | 📝 Dissertation Title | 📍 Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9:00 | Tomás Dias Pedro Ferreira | From Silt to Stone: Navigating Rugged and Uneven Terrain | Room E1 |
| 2 | 10:00 | José Duarte Ferrão de Oliveira Lopes | Densifying SLAM for Real-Time 3D Reconstruction with Embedded GPUs | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 2 | 10:30 | Miguel Maria Barral Rebocho | AgriPV – Sizing a Photovoltaic Park Combined with Forage Crops | Room P3 |
| 2 | 11:30 | Martim Rendeiro Bento | A Fast Mapping and Co-Design Toolchain for Stream-Based CGRAs | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 2 | 14:00 | Francisco Miguel Ferreira Domingues de Sousa e Silva | No Time to Backprop: Online Learning on Dynamic Graphs with Recurrent Neural Networks | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 2 | 14:30 | André Filipe Rento Teodósio | The Role of Trajectory Prediction in the Perception of Approaching Agents | — |
| 2 | 15:00 | Miguel Filipe Alves Pereira de Ferreira Monteiro | AgriPV – Combining Agriculture and Photovoltaic Technology to Mitigate Food and Energy Problems | LT2 |
| 2 | 17:00 | Manuel Falcão Cardoso Palo | Translating Sign Language into Text Using Large Language Models | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 2 | 17:00 | Alice Londral Gamboa | Energy Communities: Current Status and Feasibility Analysis | Online |
| 2 | 17:00 | Pedro Alberto Oliveira Paiva | Speeding-Up PVT-Inclusive Analog/RF IC Sizing Optimizations With Artificial Neural Network-Based Performance Regressors and Transfer Learning | LT2 |
| 2 | 17:00 | João Melo Borges Pedras Branco | Cooling System for Photovoltaic Panels | Room E2, North Tower |
| 3 | 10:00 | Miguel Pinto da Rocha Nunes Caeiro | Human-Swarm Interaction for Controlling a Team of Micro Aerial Robots | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 3 | 10:00 | Sergei Chashnikov | Navigation System of the COSMA AUV | Online |
| 3 | 10:30 | Nuno Jorge Rodrigues dos Santos | HEll-Block: Hybrid Ell-Block Sparse Computations on GPU CUDA and Tensor Cores | Room V1.25, 1st floor, Civil Engineering building |
| 3 | 11:30 | João Francisco Livramento Santos | IoT-Based Usage Monitoring and Equipment Management for Academic Maker Spaces | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 3 | 11:30 | Ana Filipa Caroço Castela Rio | Go-Around Detection at LPPT Based on Deep Learning Models Using ADS-B and Meteorological Data | Room 11.26 (IT), 11th floor, North Tower |
| 3 | 12:00 | Sofia Alexandre Nobre dos Santos | Search for and Detect Objects with Foveal Vision Systems Using Visual-Language Models | Auditorium EA4, 1st floor, North Tower |
| 3 | 14:30 | Guilherme Eric Granqvist Cristina de Freitas | Point Merge System Trajectory Monitoring and Deviation Detection Using ADS-B Data at Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 3 | 16:00 | Tomás Luís Pires Marques | Personalized Training for Robotic Therapies in Children with Autism | LT2 |
| 4 | 9:30 | Tiago Afonso Ambrósio Lourinho | Optimizing GPUs’ Energy Efficiency Through Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling | Online |
| 4 | 10:30 | Samuel Silva Carvalho | Battery Management System Based on a Matricial Charge Equalization System | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 4 | 11:00 | Tiago André Gomes Miranda | Optimizing a Deep Residual Neural Network (ResNet) Implementation on GPU | Auditorium GA2, ground floor, Central Pavilion |
| 4 | 11:00 | Bernardo Melo Borges Belo Soares | Integrating Machine Learning with XGBoost, Neural Networks, and LSTMs for Stock Market Prediction and Portfolio Management | Auditorium AM, Mechanical Engineering II Pavilion |
| 4 | 11:30 | José Tiago Fernandes Moniz | Accelerating Average Consensus in Dynamical Networks Without Compromising Accuracy, Privacy or Resilience | LT2 |
| 4 | 14:30 | João Paiva de Castelo Branco | Integrating Deep Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Active Inference for Object Search in Mobile Robotics | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 4 | 15:00 | Luis Pedro Soares Marnoto Gaspar Lopes | Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation on Aerial Photos | Room P9, 2nd floor, Mathematics building |
| 4 | 16:00 | Maria Francisca Cardoso Pereira | Low-Cost Antenna for Tracking LEO PNT Signals | E2, North Tower |
| 4 | 16:30 | Francisco Reis Nogueira | Comprehension of Multilingual Expressions Referring to Target Objects in Visual Inputs | Online |
| 4 | 17:00 | Rui Jorge Tomás Oliveira | Modelling Aging Effects in Photovoltaic Solar Cells Through Electroluminescence and Current-Voltage Techniques | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 4 | 17:00 | Carolina Anya Botelho Pimenta Tilley | Design of Flexible and Compact Magnetoresistive-Based Tactile Sensor for Dexterous Robotic Hands | LT2 |
| 5 | 14:00 | Tiago Maria da Silva Aguincha Pinto Leite | Exploration of Indoor Spaces Using Swarm-Intelligent Drones | LT2 |
| 5 | 14:00 | Tomás Filipe Sequeira Martins | Mitigating Performance Loss Due to Missing Modalities: A Multimodal Generative Model Approach to Robust Cancer Classification | Auditorium EA3, 1st floor, North Tower |
| 5 | 15:00 | Tomás Gomes Glória | Voltage Control Interactions in Active Distribution Networks: A Stability Analysis Approach for Piecewise-Linear Local Control Laws | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 5 | 15:30 | Jéssica Alexandra Tavares Consciência | HERMES: Heterogeneous Application-Enabled Routing Middleware for Edge-IoT Systems | LT2 |
| 5 | 15:30 | Gonçalo Bernardino Frazão | Incorporating Geometric Cues into Neural Surface Reconstruction | — |
| 5 | 15:30 | Francisco Carlos Qiu Mexia de Azeredo | Enhancing Semantic Search with NLP for Secure and Scalable Document Retrieval: A Metadata-Enriched, ACL-Aware Approach | Online |
| 5 | 15:00 | João Lourenço Sousa Gonçalves | Modeling of 8-Shaped Integrated Inductors and Transformers Using Machine Learning Techniques | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 5 | 16:30 | Davide Moutinho da Silva | Low-Voltage Network Planning for the Energy Transition | Auditorium EA3, 1st floor, North Tower |
| 5 | 17:00 | Margarida Baptista Lourenço | Design and Optimisation of Fully-Integrated High-Frequency DC-DC Converters | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 5 | 17:00 | Hugo Morgado Rabuge | Impact of Major Economic Calendar Events on Forex Market Volatility: Predicting Exchange Rate Movements Using XGBoost, Random Forest and CatBoost | LT2 |
| 9 | 10:30 | Maria Teresa da Silva Rebelo de Noronha de Alarcão | Bridging Simulation and Real-Time Application: A Robust Multi-Asset Framework for Automated Pairs Trading | Room V1.01 |
| 9 | 10:30 | Rúben Neves Cavaco | Characterization of Surgical Videos Using Computer Vision and Affordance Models | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 9 | 13:00 | Pedro Filipe Cristovam Apolónia | Visual Inertial Odometry for Real-Time 3D Mapping of Underwater Caves | Online |
| 9 | 14:30 | Francisco Miguel Abraços Matias | Super-Resolution for Medical Imaging Using Microwaves | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 9 | 16:00 | Duarte Manuel da Cruz Costa | Implementation of 5G Private Networks in Railway Communications for High-Speed Trains | LT2 |
| 9 | 16:30 | Diogo Miguel Batista de Sousa Correia da Costa | Automatic Radar Waveform Recognition for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems | — |
| 9 | 17:00 | Henrique Ramos Delfino | Oscillator-Based Linear VTC | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 9 | 17:30 | André Rebelo Teixeira | Trajectory Generation and Optimization for Free-Flying Robots in Microgravity Environments | Online |
| 9 | 19:00 | Guilherme Augusto Marques Padinha Infante | Development of a Computational Tool for the Analysis of Photovoltaic Solar Systems with Concentrators | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 10 | 9:30 | Leandra Ricardina Almeida Sequeira | Space Data Payload Processor for SoC-FPGAs | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 10 | 10:00 | Duarte da Trindade Domingues | Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Racing Stack with MPC-Based Control | Online |
| 10 | 11:30 | Rodrigo Alexandre Ribeiro Francisco | Development of a Visual-Inertial Navigation System on a Low-Cost Robotic Platform | — |
| 10 | 12:00 | Francisco Miguel Pessanha Pardal Ribeiro | Artificial Pain Representation for Remote Collaborative Manipulation | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 10 | 13:00 | João Mendes Martins | Automatic Semantic Concept Discovery for Tabular Data | LT2 |
| 10 | 14:30 | Nuno João Rodrigo Baptista | Exploring Cork for High-Performance Antenna Radomes for 5G and 6G | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 10 | 17:00 | Laura Alexandra dos Santos Cadete | Comparative Analysis of Indoor Light-Harvesting Systems for Battery-Powered IoT Sensor Nodes | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 11 | 11:30 | Catarina Moreira Torres Santos Palmeirão | Insights From GNN and Cellular Explanations: A Multistage Framework to Interpret Automatic Diagnosis in Histopathology | Room V1.01 |
| 11 | 17:00 | Diogo António Gomes e Gomes | Development of Models to Evaluate the Influence of Temperature on Solar Cells | Room V1.01 |
| 11 | 17:30 | Tiago Miguel Colunas Brogueira | Causal Discovery in Exchangeable Data | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 12 | 14:00 | Miguel Ângelo Cartaxo Lopes | Learning Structured Representations (Graphs): Application to Bayesian Networks | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 12 | 15:00 | David José Belo Brites Antunes | Electromagnetic Structures for High Spatial Resolution Eddy Current Testing | Room P3, 1st floor, Mathematics building |
| 12 | 15:30 | Gonçalo Nuno Marques Cardoso de Araújo | A Data-Driven Framework for Automatic Robotic Welding Parametrization | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |
| 12 | 17:00 | Yulong Guo | CMOS Microfluidics Flow Rate Sensor and Frontend | LT2 |
| 12 | 17:00 | Manuel Sobral de Menezes da Silva Graça | Improving Efficiency in the Learning Process of Neural Networks | Meeting Room, 5th floor, 5.09 North Tower |