Professional Summary
PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Autonomous Systems Engineer working at the intersection of distributed optimization, autonomous navigation, and deployable AI software. My work combines first-author research in optimization and autonomous systems with hands-on engineering in computer vision platforms, service architecture, and operator-facing tools built with Python, FastAPI, React, and PyTorch.
Experience
Autonomous Systems Engineer
SeaPower
- ·Build deployable autonomy software components with emphasis on perception pipelines, system integration, and production-facing engineering.
- ·Design operator-facing AI and computer vision infrastructure using Python, FastAPI, React, and PyTorch.
- ·Contribute to service boundaries, runtime assembly, and deployment-oriented workflows for real-world autonomous systems.
FCT-funded PhD Researcher
Instituto Superior Tecnico
- ·Developed distributed and hybrid optimization methods for multi-agent drone surveillance in wildfire scenarios.
- ·Designed ADMM-based decompositions for large stochastic-coverage problems, reducing regional solve times from over 24 hours to about 10 seconds.
- ·Built continuous-time and hybrid optimization frameworks for smooth quadrotor surveillance over unknown nonconvex utility fields.
- ·First-authored journal and conference publications across optimization, control, and autonomous systems.
Data Scientist
Guangyuan Keyou Technology Development
- ·Developed data-analysis and modeling workflows for pipeline corrosion monitoring in support of application-facing detection and status assessment.
- ·Worked with software engineers to align modeling outputs with practical monitoring requirements.
Kaggle Expert
Kaggle
- ·Reached Kaggle Expert tier through competition participation.
- ·Selected results include one silver-medal case and two bronze-medal cases in applied machine learning competitions.
Selected Projects
Selected Publications
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Doctoral research in distributed nonlinear optimization for multi-agent autonomous systems.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Macau
Graduated with strong distinction and early research experience in cooperative robotics and systems engineering.
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