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Research Technician, IoT programmer, and developer at Wave Labs, MARE-Madeira/ARDITI's technology and AI team, developing marine technologies. His background includes a BSc in Informatics Engineering and a Professional Technician qualification in Electronics and Telecommunications, along with several years of experience in these fields. He is involved in TWILIGHTED, a Horizon Europe-funded project (Grant No. 101158714) enhancing research and innovation capacity in deep-sea research. His responsibilities include developing, deploying, and maintaining marine sensing devices (Drop-Cams, Drift-Cams, BRUVs) capable of operating at depths exceeding 1500m. These systems incorporate logging, biotelemetry, and LoRa communication for data transmission to shore. This work builds upon experience gained in INTERTAGUA, an INTERREG-funded project (MAC2/1.1.a/385) focused on marine megafauna detection. His expertise encompasses IoT-based embedded systems, custom PCB design, prototyping (including GNSS, IMU, and pressure sensor integration), long-range communication infrastructure development, and fieldwork for environmental monitoring.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Artur da Silva Pestana

Citation names

  • Pestana, João Artur
  • Pestana, João
  • J Pestana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9E17-C5CC-E299
ORCID iD
0009-0005-9870-6224
Google Scholar ID
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Email addresses

  • joao.pestana@mare.arditi.pt (Professional)
  • joao@wave-labs.org (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/10 - 2025/07
Ongoing
 Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia, Portugal
2024/07/08 - 2024/07/19
Concluded
 Marine Robotics Summer School (Outros)
Major in Marine Robotics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Portugal Program, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal
2016/09 - 2020/09
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia, Portugal
2020/06 - 2020/08
Concluded
 Summer school in scientific research methodologies and techniques (Outros)
Major in Scientific research
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2005/08 - 2008/07
Concluded
 Electronics and Telecommunications Professional Technician (Ensino secundário)
Major in Electronics and Telecommunications
Escola Profissional Cristovão Colombo, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03 - Current Researcher (Research) Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
2020/08 - 2020/11 Research Trainee (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
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Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02 - 2022/08 IoT Programmer and developer Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/08 IoT Programmer and developer - Trainee Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
2015/05 - 2015/12 Electrician's assistant Domodelta - Instalações Eletrotécnicas Unipessoal, Lda, Portugal
2009/11 - 2013/07 Telecommunications technician self-employed, Portugal
2009/09 - 2010/02 Qualified Electronics and Telecommunications Professional Sicaprep (Madeira) Montagem de Matérias Elétricos, Eletrónicos e Telecomunicações, Lda, Portugal
2008/12 - 2009/08 Electronics and Telecommunications Professional Trainee Sicaprep (Madeira) Montagem de Matérias Elétricos, Eletrónicos e Telecomunicações, Lda, Portugal
2008/05 - 2008/07 Electronics Intern Sinosom-Eletrodomésticos, Lda., Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/10/01 - Current TWILIGHTED - Twinning Laboratory for an Innovative, Global Hub To Explore the Deep
101158714
Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente Pólo da Madeira, Portugal

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2022/02 - 2022/08 INTERTAGUA - Interfaces for Detecting and Visualizing Marine Megafauna
MAC2/1.1.a /385
Technical development
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
 Interreg Europe
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Radeta, Marko; Pestana, João ; Abreu, P.; Ana Dinis; Thomas Dellinger ; Alves, Filipe; Fernandez, Marc; Silvana Neves; Eric Delory. "Low-cost biotelemetry tracker and location estimation pipeline for cetacean monitoring". Paper presented in 34th Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023, 2023.
  2. Radeta, Marko; Fernandez, Marc; Alves, Filipe; Pestana, João ; et al. "Low-cost biotelemetry tracker for marine megafauna monitoring". Paper presented in VIII International Symposium on Marine Sciences 2022 (ISMS), 2022.
Journal article
  1. Marko Radeta; João Gama Monteiro; João Pestana; Dinarte Vieira; Pedro Abreu; Rodrigo Silva; Susanne Schäfer; et al. "MARS: Programmable multipurpose auto-release system for aquatic observations". Limnology and Oceanography: Methods (2025): https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10688.
    10.1002/lom3.10688
  2. Décio Alves; Zeyar Aung; Fábio Mendonça; Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa; Diogo Freitas; João Pestana; Dinarte Vieira; Marko Radeta; Fernando Morgado-Dias. "A networked station system for high-resolution wind nowcasting in air traffic operations: A data-augmented deep learning approach". PLOS ONE (2025): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316548.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0316548
  3. Perseverance Ngoy; Farooq Dar; Mohan Liyanage; Zhigang Yin; Ulrich Norbisrath; Agustin Zuniga; João Pestana; et al. "Supporting Sustainable Computing by Repurposing E-Waste Smartphones as Tiny Data Centers". IEEE Pervasive Computing (2025): https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2025.3541558.
    10.1109/MPRV.2025.3541558
  4. Marko Radeta; João Pestana; Pedro Abreu; Rúben Freitas; Francisco Silva; Dinarte Vieira; Rui Prieto; et al. "TRITON—Open Telemetry and Location Estimation for Marine Monitoring Based on IoT and LoRa". IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (2024): https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2024.3441819.
    10.1109/JOE.2024.3441819
  5. Marko Radeta; Claudio Rodrigues; Francisco Silva; Pedro Abreu; João Pestana; Ngoc Thi Nguyen; Agustin Zuniga; Huber Flores; Petteri Nurmi. "Lost in the Deep?". Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1145/3596245.
    10.1145/3596245
Preprint
  1. Radeta, Marko; Pestana, João; Abreu, Pedro; Sousa, Louis; Ramos, Antonio; Pinto, Pedro; Noronha, Hildegardo; Lopez, Jorge; Azevedo, Victor. "TRITON -Tracker for Real-time Telemetry". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.170111049.94688074/v1.
    10.22541/au.170111049.94688074/v1

Other

Physical object
  1. Marko Radeta; Abreu, Pedro; Prieto, Rui; Thomas Dellinger ; Pestana, João. "Low-Cost Biotelemetry Tags". 2022. Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Ilha da Madeira.