Cláudia Vanessa Martins de Brito (D11C-0E66-826E)

Curriculum Vitae

Cláudia Vanessa Martins de Brito

Cláudia Brito is an assistant researcher at INESC TEC and an invited assistant professor at the University of Minho. Her current research rests on distributed machine learning, addressing several fronts. In detail, in the last few years, she has been delving into privacy-preserving distributed machine learning and federated learning, the application of distributed machine learning to healthcare challenges, and storage optimizations for machine learning and distributed machine learning. Finally, she has been expanding her research lines towards energy-aware storage systems for deep learning workloads. She is starting to grow a publication record on these subjects, having already some relevant papers in reputable journals, conferences, and workshops (e.g., IEEE Access, ACM SAC, EPIA). She has been an active researcher on multiple international and national projects, such as Compete2020 BigHPC and AIDA, PT-UTAustin PAStor, PT2030 BCD.S+M, international consortiums (CENTRA) and European projects such as Green.Dat.AI.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cláudia Vanessa Martins de Brito

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D11C-0E66-826E
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4293-9887
Google Scholar ID: ertclDsAAAAJ&hl

Email addresses

claudia.v.brito@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/11/05 - 2024/07/03 Concluded	Informática (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal	Very Good
2013/09 - 2018/10/31 Concluded	Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Major in Informática Médica Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Cloud-based Analytics for Monitoring and Classification of Arrhythmias" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/08 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

2019/01/01 - 2024/07	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/07 - 2021/12	Research Internship	Ubiwhere, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/10 - 2023/10	Towards a Privacy-Preserving Distributed Machine Learning Framework SFRH/BD/146528/2019	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/05/30 - 2023/05/30	AIDA: Adaptive, Intelligent and Distributed Assurance Platform POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045907 Researcher	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded
2020/10/30 - 2020/12/30	PAStor: Programmable and Adaptable Storage for AI- oriented HPC Ecosystems UTA-EXPL/CA/0075/2019 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/04/01 - 2020/05/01	BigHPC: A Management Framework for Consolidated Big Data and HPC POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045924 Researcher	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/09/30	PLURIANUAL UID/EEA/50014/2019 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/01 - Current	GreenDat.AI: Energy-efficient AI-ready Data Spaces 101070416 Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal	Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018 - Current	Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing Global CENTRA project Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, South Korea	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Beatriz Cepa; Cláudia Brito; António Sousa. "Generative Adversarial Networks in Healthcare: A Case Study on MRI Image Generation". 2023. 10.1109/enbeng58165.2023.10175330 Cláudia Brito; PG Ferreira; Bernardo Portela; Rui Oliveira; João Paulo. "SOTERIA: Preserving Privacy in Distributed Machine Learning". 2023. 10.1145/3555776.3578591 Alves, J; Soares, B; Brito, C; Sousa, A. "Cloud-Based Privacy-Preserving Medical Imaging System Using Machine Learning Tools". 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-16474-3_17 Macedo, Ricardo; Correia, Claudia; Dantas, Marco; Brito, Cláudia; Xu, Weijia; Tanimura, Yusuke; Haga, Jason; Paulo, Joao. "The Case for Storage Optimization Decoupling in Deep Learning Frameworks". 2021. 10.1109/cluster48925.2021.00096 Rei, J.; Brito, C.; Sousa, A.. "Assessment of an IoT platform for data collection and analysis for medical sensors". 2018. Published • 10.1109/CIC.2018.00061 Peixoto, C.; Brito, C.; Fontainhas, M.; Peixoto, H.; Machado, J.; Abelha, A.. "Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: Business intelligence applied to patient monitoring: CAPD study and statistics". 2017. 10.1109/FiCloudW.2017.91
Journal article	Cláudia V. Brito; Pedro G. Ferreira; Bernardo L. Portela; Rui C. Oliveira; João T. Paulo. "Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning on Apache Spark". IEEE Access (2023): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3332222. 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3332222 Noela Pina; Cláudia Brito; Ricardo Vitorino; Inês Cunha. "Promoting sustainable and personalised travel behaviours while preserving data privacy". Transportation Research Procedia (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.819. 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.819 Brito, Cláudia. "Electrocardiogram Beat-Classification Based on a ResNet Network". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (2019): http://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190182. 10.3233/SHTI190182 Brito, C.; Esteves, M.; Peixoto, H.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.. "A data mining approach to classify serum creatinine values in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis". Wireless Networks (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85060728770&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1007/s11276-018-01905-4
Preprint	Cláudia Brito; Pedro Ferreira; João Paulo. "A Distributed Computing Solution for Privacy-Preserving Genome-Wide Association Studies". 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.15.575678. 10.1101/2024.01.15.575678
Thesis / Dissertation	Brito, Cláudia. "Cloud-based Analytics for Monitoring and Classification of Arrhythmias". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2018.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Neuroimaging analysis pipeline leveraging open-source frameworks in distributed environments. Co-supervised with António Sousa e Beatriz Cepa Co-supervisor	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	GPU energy control for Deep Learning systems. Co-advised with Ricardo Macedo and António Sousa. Co-supervisor of Diana Rodrigues	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	Energy control system for disaggregated storage resources. Co-advised with João Paulo and Ricardo Macedo. Co-supervisor of Mariana Amorim	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	Comprehensive study of the energy impact of key-value stores. Co-advised with Ricardo Macedo and António Sousa. Co-supervisor of José Fernandes	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	Heterogeneous storage solution for deep learning frameworks. Co-advised with João Paulo and Ricardo Macedo. Co-supervisor of Francisco Neves	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/09 - Current	Integration of Distributed Deep Learning in MCC application. Co-advised with António Sousa and Beatriz Cepa Co-supervisor of Luís Branco	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/10 - Current	Plataforma para análise e monitorização de stress Co-supervisor of Eduarda Dantas Vieira	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/11	Correction of Motion Artifacts using Deep Learning in High-Performance Computing. Co-advised with António Sousa and Beatriz Cepa Co-supervisor of Alícia Oliveira	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/07	Energy Control System for Large-Scale Infrastructures. Co-advised with Ricardo Macedo and Carlos Baquero. Co-supervisor of Sara Pereira	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2024	Distributed I/O Optimizations for Deep Learning Training. Co- advised with João Paulo and Ricardo Macedo. Co-supervisor of Maria Beatriz Moreira	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Deep Learning for Image Generation Using HPC. Co-advised with António Sousa. Co-supervisor of Beatriz Cepa	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - 2022	A Web and Machine Learning-based DICOM Image Tool. Co-advised with António Sousa. Co-supervisor of Beatriz Soares	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Cloud-based Healthcare Application with Privacy-preserving Analytics. Co-advised with António Sousa. Co-supervisor of João Alves	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/10 - 2022	Distributed Deep Learning Approach for Epilepsy Detection and Classification on EEG signals. Co-advised with António Sousa Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/11 - 2019/12	Distributed Deep Learning For Sleep Apnea Detection on ECG Signals. Co-advised with António Sousa Co-supervisor of Ana Margarida Machado	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2014/12 - 2014/12	Volunteer on the " X Jornadas de Engenharia Biomédica". (2014/12 - 2014/12) Other (Other)	Gabinete de Alunos de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2017/11 - 2017/11	Participant of the 2nd Edition of the Heartbits. HeartBits is an hackathon which intends to merge medicine and informatics. The goal is to develop a prototype of an application in 24 hours to fulfil a real need in medicine. Other	HeartBits CESIUM, Portugal
2017/10 - 2017/11	Lecturer in workshop of Python. The workshop encompassed the basic concepts of Python and data structures. It was lectured to first year students of the Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering. This workshop was divided into 4 sessions of 2 hours, between October 2017 and November 2017. Workshop	Workshop de Python Gabinete de Alunos de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Participant of the "Olimpíadas de Química Júnior 2010". This activity brought together young minds, chosen from several portuguese schools, to participate in a contest about chemistry. Call	Olimpíadas de Química Júnior 2010 Universidade do Minho Centro de Química, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	Computers in biology and medicine
2024 - Current	NeuroImage
2024 - Current	Science of computer programming
2021 - Current	Progress in artificial intelligence (2192-6360)	Springer Nature
2024 - 2024	Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/02 - Current	Object Oriented Programming (2nd year). Lecturer of practical classes of the Informatics Engineering course.	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/09 - Current	Cloud Computing and Application Services (4th year). Lecturer of practical classes of the Informatics Engineering course.	Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2022 - 2024	Exploring energy-aware policies for modern I/O infrastructures	Diana Rodrigues, João Fernandes, Mariana Amorim, and Sara Pereira

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Artifact Evaluation Committee on The 20th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys'25. 2025.
2024 - Current	Shadow PC on The 20th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys'25. 2025.
2023 - 2023	Artifact Evaluation Committee on MLSys'23, The Sixth Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems.
2023 - 2023	Artifact Evaluation Committee on DAIS 2023, 23rd International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems.