Experience

Wakaru

• Portugal
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• R&D Senior Consultant

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Working on the Water Wise platform for real-time monitoring, forecasting, reporting, and analytics, encompassing the following tasks (but not limited to): - Development of technical and functional specifications for the system's diverse components - Assisting in defining and implementing the physical, logical, and functional architecture of the system - Providing support in crafting validation methodologies for testing - Identifying opportunities for improvement - Collaborating on the production and review of technical documentation and scientific articles Show less



Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Barreiro do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  Hydraulic Fundamentals - 2nd year class of Bachelor’s in Civil EngineeringUrban Hydraulics - 2nd year class of Bachelor’s in Civil EngineeringBuilding Services - 3rd year class of Bachelor’s in Civil EngineeringBuilding Infrastructures - 2nd year class of CTeSP in Energy Rehabilitation and Building Conservation

• Research Fellow

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

  WISDom - Water Intelligence System DataDuring my participation in this project, I have performed the following roles:- Identification of the data requirements - Development of ETL tools using Python and MySQL- Development of front-ends for data analysis using PowerBI- Support and validation to the software development team to implement the distinct modules and functionalities

• Research Fellow

  • Apr 2018 - Jul 2019

  DECIdE – Multi-Criteria DECision Support Platform for Urban Water InfrastructurEsDuring my participation in this project, I have performed the following roles:- Identification of KPI considered relevant to the decision making- Information systems characterization- Software Requirement Specifications in Agile- Development of an integrated data model using MySQL- Support and validation to the software development team to implement the distinct modules and functionalities- Development of technical documentation Show less



Instituto Superior Técnico

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral Researcher

  • Jan 2019 - Sep 2023

  PhD Thesis title: Real-time Pipe Burst Location Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques Grade: Approved with Distinction and Honour Main outcomes: - development of a multi-objective optimization method for pressure sensor location - development of a sensitivity analysis for the parameterization of NSGA-II algorithm for the optimal location of pressure sensors - development of a method to determine the optimal number of pressure sensors - development of a methodology for processing unevenly (and evenly) spaced flow rate time series - assessment of the ideal parameters of a statistical approach for pipe burst detection - development of a model-based method using inverse analysis for real-time pipe burst location - development of guidelines for the implementation of real-time pipe burst detection and location Show less