Public Defence of the Doctoral Thesis Project
Public Defence of the Doctoral Thesis Project
Perception and Decision-making System for Autonomous Mobile Robotics Using Artificial Intelligence
Student: Vinicius Ferreira da Silva Bianchi Grilo
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 16/12/2025
Hour: 16:00
Location: Sala de Atos e Reuniões - n.º 1
Jury:
- Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitão
- José Luís Sousa de Magalhães Lima
- Pedro Mariano Simões Neto (UCoimbra)
Reduction of computation resources for machine learning models: efifcient AI
Student: Felipe Gimenez da Silva
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 15/12/2025
Hour: 18:00
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Rui Pedro Sanches de Castro Lopes
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Georgia Koutrika (Athena Research Center)
Game based learning para a aprendizagem da história em anos iniciais
Student: Júlio César Leal de Faria
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 15/12/2025
Hour: 13:30
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Rui Pedro Sanches de Castro Lopes
- Lynn Rosalina Gama Alves (Universidade Estadual da Baía)
Development of an Adaptive and Reconfigurable Edge-AI Framework: A TinyML-based Approach for Intelligent Sensing and Anomaly Detection in Industrial IoT Environments
Student: Lucas Santos Pinow
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 12/12/2025
Hour: 16:30
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitão
- Gil Manuel Gonçalves (Universidade do Porto)
Exploring novel sequence-to-sequence architectures for language models to improve their reasoning capabilities
Student: João Alberto Sobrinho Teixeira Simões
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 12/12/2025
Hour: 14:00
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Pedro João Soares Rodrigues
- Paulo Alexandre Cardoso Salgado (UTAD)
Agentic AI Applied to Industrial Sensor Systems: Framework Design and Evaluation
Student: Miguel Afonso Beckers
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 11/12/2025
Hour: 17:30
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Rui Pedro Sanches de Castro Lopes
- Pedro João Soares Rodrigues
- Arnaldo Cândido Júnior (Universidade Estadual de São Paulo)
Audience Forecasting and Advertising Campaign Allocation Optimization through Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Student: Davide Emanuel da Silva Dias
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 11/12/2025
Hour: 11:00
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Paulo Alexandre Vara Alves
- Vítor Manuel de Jesus Filipe (UTAD)
Adaptive Indoor Navigation System for Reduced Mobility Individuals
Student: David Luís Malhão Verde
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 10/12/2025
Hour: 18:00
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitão
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Paulo José Cerqueira Gomes da Costa (FEUP)
Enhancing smart inclusive mobility: AI-Driven Accessible Route Planning in Portugal
Student: Vasco António Gonçalves Alves
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 10/12/2025
Hour: 16:00
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitão
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Raquel Ávila Muñoz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Intelligent, inclusive, and sustainable outdoor navigation software solution
Student: Tânia Cristina Ferreira da Silva
Doctoral Degree: Intelligent Systems Engineering
Date: 10/12/2025
Hour: 14:00
Location: Sala de Reuniões da Direção
Jury:
- Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitão
- Ana Isabel Pinheiro Nunes Pereira
- Luís Manuel da Silva Conceição (IPP)