- 2017-NOW, Senior Researcher for “Productive4.0: Electronics and ICT as enabler for digital industry and optimized supply chain management covering the entire product lifecycle”, Grant nr. 737459 | Call H2020-ECSEL-2016-2-IA-two-stage. Improve digitization of European industry, by introducing seamless automation and network solutions for data transparency, consistency and overall efficiency.
- 2015-2018, Contributor to the proposal, Senior Researcher, Work Package leader for WP3 (Smart sensing and data acquisition technologies), Work Package leader for WP8 (Dissemination of knowledge and exploitation), Task Leader for T8.1 (Communication and dissemination activities) for “MANTIS; Cyber Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance”, EU ECSEL Joint Undertaking, FCT contract ref. ECSEL/0004/2014, JU grant nr. 662189. Proactive and predictive maintenance of industrial machines, using machine learning techniques over data collected through high-performance communication middleware.
- 2014-2017, Contributor to the proposal, Senior Researcher for “Arrowhead, ahead of the future”, EU ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, FCT contract ref. ARTEMIS/0001/2012, JU grant nr. 332987. Cooperative automation for Internet of Things and Service Oriented Architectures.
- 2011-2015, Contributor to the PO and FPP for ITEA label, Senior Researcher, Task Leader for Task 3.2 (Cooperative data delivery and routing in wireless networks) of the international part (ITEA2 N. 11037) and Atividade (Work Package) leader for Atividade (Work Package) 5 (Agregação e Routing de Dados) of the Portuguese part (QREN contract N. 30345) for project “CarCoDe: Platform for Smart Car to Car Content Delivery”. Middleware for content delivery in vehicular peer-to-peer and infrastructured network.
- 2012-2014, Senior Researcher, Leader of the software development activities for “Embedded iNtelligent COntrols for bUildings with Renewable generAtion and storage (ENCOURAGE)”, EU ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, FCT contract ref. ARTEMIS/0002/2010, JU grant nr. 269354. Energy saving in residential and academic buildings, integration of Distributed Energy Resources.
- 2011-2012, Senior Researcher and Project Technical Manager for “Green-T: Green Terminals for Next Generation Wireless Systems”, Celtic+ project CP08-006. Using multi-hop cooperation and vertical hand overs to save energy on mobile terminals, plus network coding, security, and business models for acceptance by operators.
- 2011-2012, Senior Researcher, Main contributor to the proposal, Work Package leader for WP5 (Advanced Heterogeneous Media Networking) for “Remote cOllaborative real-time Multimedia Experience Over the future internet (ROMEO)”, European Large scale Integrating Project (IP) ICT call 7, FP7-ICT-2011-7. Content-aware system to transport 3D TV layers with different priorities over DVB and p2p overlay.
- 2010-2012, Senior Researcher for “Cognitive radio and Cooperative strategies for POWER saving in multi-standard wireless devices (C2POWER)”, European Special Target Research Project (STREP), contract N. 248577. Using multi-hop cooperation and vertical hand overs to save energy on mobile terminals.
- 2011-2012, Main contributor to the PO and FPP for ITEA label, Work Package leader, and Portugal Country Coordinator for “MoSHCA: My Mobile and Smart Health Care Assistant”, Project Outline and Project Description for “ITEA label”. Orchestration of body sensor network using a smart phone, for medical application.
- 2011, Main contributor to the PO and FPP for ITEA label, and Portugal Country Coordinator for “SITAC: Social internet of things; apps by and for the crowd”, Project Outline and Project Description for “ITEA label”. Applying social networking paradigm to internet of things.
- 2010, Senior Researcher for “iP-based Emergency Application and serviCes for nExt generation networks (PEACE)”, European Special Target Research Project (STREP), contract N. 225654. Emergency communication in ad-hoc scenario. Enabling peer-to-peer user location.
- 2007-2008, Researcher for “Secure Middleware for Embedded Peer to Peer systems (SMEPP)”, European Special Target Research Project (STREP), contract N. 033563. Realization of a middleware for secure p2p applications, peers ranging from laptop to sensors.
- 2006, Researcher for “XtreemOS: Enabling Linux for the Grid (XtreemOS)”, Large scale Integrating Project (IP), contract N. 033576. Linux kernel oriented to grid applications.