Career Summary

• Core competencies in control systems theory, fault-tolerant control, cyber-physical systems, fault diagnosis, prognostics, and health management, cyber-secure control, formal verification, computational intelligence, and learning-based control.

• Developer of QNNVerifier, DSVerifier, DSValidator, DSSynth tools, and Sim3Tanks Simulator

• Research collaborations with University of Manchester (UK),  Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), University of Oxford (UK), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Federal University of Lavras (Brazil), State University of Montes Claros (Brazil), Federal University of Pará (Brazil), Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), State University of Amazonas (UEA), and Federal Institute of Amazonas (Brazil).

• Reviewer for a number of top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, ISA Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man., and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and Journal of the Franklin Institute.

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering focused on Control Systems, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

  • Thesis title: Reconfiguration Blocks for Fault-Tolerant Control of Nonlinear Systems

  • Period: May 2018 - June 2022

  • Funded by the scholarship program PROPG/CAPES - FAPEAM 

  • Supervisor: Reinaldo Martínez Palhares

• Ph.D. staying in the Advanced Control Systems Group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain

  • Research theme: Cyber-secure control, fault-tolerant control, learning-based control, and model predictive control

  • Period: February 2020 - December 2020

  • Funded by CNPq

  • Supervisor: Vicenç Puig

• Master degree in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil

  • Thesis title: Data-Driven Framework for Fault Detection and Diagnosis applied to a Wind Turbine Benchmark

  • Period: March 2014 - September 2015

  • Funded by Samsung Electronics/CETELI

  • Supervisors: João Edgar Chaves Filho and Reinaldo Martínez Palhares

  • Special thanks to Marcos Flávio Silveira Vasconcelos D'Angelo which also co-supervisioned this work

• Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil

  • Project title: Fault-Tolerant Control of a Mobile Robot

  • Period: April 2008 - October 2013

  • Supervisor: João Edgar Chaves Filho

Experience

• Assistant Professor at Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil

  • Period: November 2015 - Present

  • Courses Taught: Electric Circuits, Electrical Measurements, Control Systems, and Electrical Materials

  • Administrative Experience: Vice-Head of Department of Electricity (2017 - 2018)

• Assistant Professor at Federal Institute of Amazonas (IFAM), Brazil

  • Period: April 2015 - November 2015

  • Courses Taught: Digital Electronics, Analog Electronics, Control Theory, and Motors and Servomechanisms

  • Administrative Experience: Course leader of Industrial Mechatronics

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