Ana Sofia Cacais do Carmo (1215-6EE9-4B2E)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Sofia Cacais do Carmo

As a Biomedical Engineer and PhD candidate at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and a researcher at the Telecommunications Institute, I focus on digital health, biosignal wearable acquisition and processing, and machine learning. My work in the PreEpiSeizures project - a collaborative effort between academia and clinicians - aims to develop innovative digital health solutions for epilepsy patients. Additionally, I contribute to the academic community as a teaching assistant in bioinstrumentation.

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Sofia Cacais do Carmo

Citation names

Carmo, Ana Sofia
Carmo, A. S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 1215-6EE9-4B2E
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7954-3718

Addresses

Instituto de Telecomunicações. Instituto Superior Técnico, Torre Norte - Piso 10, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://github.com/anascacais (Professional)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anasofiacarmo/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology
Engineering and Technology
Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)
German	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/03 - 2025/02 Ongoing	PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/09 Attended	Teaching STEM Students Workshop (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/06 Attended	Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/03 Attended	Video Creation Workshop (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/09 - 2021/01 Concluded	BSc & MSc in Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Major in Medical Imaging, Biosignals and Biomedical Instrumentation Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium "EpiBOX: A Novel Approach to Long-Term Data Acquisition with Automatic Seizure Detection in Epilepsy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/02 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
2020/02 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/08 - 2020/11	Research Trainee (Research)	Centro de Engenharia e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

2019/07 - 2019/08	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/03 - Current	Lead ScientISST	ScientISST - Biomedical Engineering for Everyone, Portugal
	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022 - Current	Epileptic Seizure Forecasting 2022.12369.BD PhD Student Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/06 - 2022	SafeFire PCIF/SSO/0163/2019 PhD Student Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	João Saraiva; Mariana Abreu; Ana Carmo; Ana Fred; Hugo Plácido da Silva. "Data Augmentation, Multimodality, Subject and Activity Specificity Improve Wearable Electrocardiogram Denoising with Autoencoders". 2023. 10.5220/0011883400003414 Carmo, Ana Sofia; Abreu, Mariana; da Silva, Hugo Placido; Fred, Ana Luisa Nobre. "Automatic Detection of Tonic-Clonic and Myoclonic Epileptic Seizures Using Prefrontal Electroencephalography (EEG)". Paper presented in Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2021. Published • 10.1109/cbms52027.2021.00011
Journal article	Given Names Deactivated Family Name Deactivated; Inês Carvalho; Joana F. Pinto; Gonçalo Chambel; Ana Martins; Rute Roberto; Hugo Ferreira; et al. "A Magnetic Field-Based Wearable Respiration Sensor for Real-Time Monitoring During Pulmonary Rehabilitation". IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tbme.2024.3367536. 10.1109/tbme.2024.3367536 Mariana Abreu; Ana Sofia Carmo; Ana Rita Peralta; Francisca Sá; Hugo Plácido da Silva; Carla Bentes; Ana Luísa Fred. "PreEpiSeizures: description and outcomes of physiological data acquisition using wearable devices during video-EEG monitoring in people with epilepsy". Frontiers in Physiology 14 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1248899. 10.3389/fphys.2023.1248899 Carmo, Ana Sofia; Abreu, Mariana; Fred, Ana Luísa Nobre; da Silva, Hugo Plácido. "EpiBOX: An Automated Platform for Long-Term Biosignal Collection". Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 16 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2022.837278. 10.3389/fninf.2022.837278 Abreu, Mariana; Carmo, Ana Sofia; Ana Franco; Sara Parreira; Beatriz Vidal; Mariana Costa; Ana Rita Peralta; et al. Corresponding author: Abreu, Mariana. "Mobile Applications for Epilepsy: Where Are We? Where Should We Go? A Systematic Review". Signals 3 1 (2022): 40-65. https://doi.org/10.3390/signals3010005. Published • 10.3390/signals3010005
Thesis / Dissertation	"EpiBOX: A Novel Approach to Long-Term Data Acquisition with Automatic Seizure Detection in Epilepsy". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2021. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/EpiBOX-%3A-A-Novel-Approach-to-Long-Term-Data-with-in-Cacais/f369f9e9d1f1b7d2cc42663cbdfaafed62b78f36.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/10	PreEpiSeizures and BITalino: Holistic and Pervasive Approach to Health Monitoring	Festival Internacional de Ciência - FIC.A
2021/07	Automatic Detection of Tonic-Clonic and MyoclonicEpileptic Seizures Using Prefrontal Electroencephalography (EEG)	34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) IEEE
2021/05	EpiBOX: A Novel Approach to Long-Term Monitoring in Epilepsy	2nd Cool Tools for Science
2021/03	EpiBOX: Uma Nova Abordagem para Aquisições de Longa Duração com Deteção Automática de Crises em Epilepsia	33º Encontro Nacional de Epileptologia Liga Portuguesa Contra a Epilepsia (Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22	12 high-school students and 1 week packed with seminars and activities to introduce the world of biosignals. Powered by Ciência Viva, Instituto de Telecomunicaçes, Departamento de Bioengenharia (IST) and ScientISST. (2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22) Other (Member of the Organising Committee)	Ciência Viva, Portugal Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Bioengenharia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/07 - 2022/07	Inteligência Artificial em Bioengenharia Other	INBIO - Introdução aos Biosinais Ciência Viva, Portugal Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Bioengenharia, Portugal
2022/05 - 2022/05	Introduction to Machine Learning Workshop	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2022/03 - 2022/03	Introduction to Biosignal Acquisition Workshop	SBE VII - Semana da Bioengenharia Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/09 - Current	Principles of Bioinstrumentation	Biomedical Engineering	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2021/09 - 2021/11	Course project on unsupervised learning methods for identification of epileptic seizures	Alfredo Hernández, Diogo Antunes, Marçal Bravo
2021/09 - 2021/11	Course project on supervised learning methods for identification of epileptic seizures	Ana Rita Lopes, Carolina Ruivo, Sofia Seabra
2021/07 - 2021/10	Analytical Laboratories - Augment Reality Platform	Margarida Ramalho

Distinctions

Award

2021	Best Video at Cool Tools for Science 2021, with "EpiBOX: A Novel Approach to Long-Term Data Acquisition with Automatic Seizure Detection in Epilepsy"
2020	Academic Merit Diploma Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019	BET24 - Innovation Challenge
2018	Academic Merit Diploma Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017	Academic Merit Diploma Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal