André Martins Pereira (2A1B-692E-10B2) | CIÊNCIAVITAE

Curriculum Vitae

André Martins Pereira

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: André Martins Pereira

Citation names

Pereira, André

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2A1B-692E-10B2
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2110-914X

Email addresses

andre.martins.pereira@inesctec.pt (Professional)
ampereira@di.uminho.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

(+351) 934855058 (Personal)

Websites

https://ampereira90.github.io/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013/10 - 2019/05 Concluded	MAP-i (Doutoramento) Major in Informática Universidade do Minho, Portugal "HEP-Frame: a Development Aid and Efficient Execution Engine where a Multi-layer Scheduler Adaptively Orders Pipelined Data Stream Applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
2011/09 - 2013/10 Concluded	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Efficient Processing of ATLAS Events Analysis on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Platforms with Accelerator Devices" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2008/09 - 2011/07 Concluded	Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal	13

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01/01 - 2023/08/31	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

2022/08 - 2022/12/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Minho Laboratório de Software Confiável, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Advanced Computing Center, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/04	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2014/02/01 - 2018/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal (...)
2013/01 - 2014/01	Researcher (Research)	Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
	Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - Minho, Portugal
2012/07/01 - 2012/08/31	Research Trainee (Research)	The University of Texas at Austin, United States
	The University of Texas at Austin Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/10 - 2023/08/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

2014/03 - 2019/09	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/04 - 2022/08	Consultor de Informática (Categorias e Funções Especificas)	Electron Softview, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2014/01 - 2015/01	Plano Estratégico da Escola de Engenharia - Agenda 2020: Projetos multidisciplinares Agenda 2020 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03 - Current	EUROCC2: National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2022-NCC-01 Researcher	Ongoing
2023/02 - Current	Application Support in High Performance Computing DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2022-APPSUPPORT-01 Researcher	EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Submitted
2023 - Current	Digital Innovation Hub for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing 1111111
2022/08 - Current	SustainableHPC: Sustainable High Performance Computing - Technical development	Ongoing
2022/01/01 - Current	European Master for High Performance Computing 101051997 Other Universidade do Minho, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2024/02/01 - 2028/01/31	EPICURE: High-level specialised application support service in High-Performance Computing (HPC) EPICURE Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal	EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
2024/03/01 - 2025/02/28	exaSIMPLE: A Hybrid ML-CFD SIMPLE Algorithm for the Exascale Era EuroHPC Project 101118139 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)	EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Ongoing
2022/08/01 - 2022/12/31	EUROCC: National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC 951732-H2020-JTI EuroHPC-2019-2 Research Fellow	Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30	RDB-TS: Uma base de dados de reações químicas baseadas em informação de estados de transição derivados de cálculos quânticos. PTDC/QUI-QFI/31689/2017 Universidade do Minho, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2013/03 - 2014/01	Phenomenological Studies at the LHC CERN/FP/123619/2011 Master Student Fellow Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2015/01 - 2016/12	LIP Annual Funding POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007334 Research Fellow Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Pereira, A.; Onofre, A.; Proença, A.. Removing inefficiencies from scientific code: The study of the Higgs boson couplings to top quarks. 2014. 10.1007/978-3-319-09147-1_42
Conference paper	Micaella Coelho; Kary Ocaña; Pereira, André; Alexandre Porto; Douglas O. Cardoso; Arthur Lorenzon; Rui Oliveira; Philippe Navaux; Carla Osthoff. "Machine Learning Regression-Based Prediction for Improving Performance and Energy Consumption in HPC Platforms". Paper presented in Latin American High Performance Computing Conference, 2024. Published Pereira, André; Alberto Proenca. Corresponding author: Pereira, André. "Efficient Use of Parallel PRNGs on Heterogeneous Servers". Paper presented in International Conference on Mathematical Applications, Funchal, 2018. Published Pereira, A.; Onofre, A.; Proenca, A.. "Tuning pipelined scientific data analyses for efficient multicore execution". 2016. 10.1109/HPCSim.2016.7568410 "HEP-Frame: A Software Engineered Framework to Aid the Development and Efficient Multicore Execution of Scientific Code". 2015. 10.1109/CSCI.2015.42
Journal article	Leander Reascos; Fábio Carneiro; André Pereira; Nuno Filipe Castro; Ricardo Mendes Ribeiro. "Berry: A code for the differentiation of Bloch wavefunctions from DFT calculations". Computer Physics Communications (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108972. 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108972 C.A. Silva; R. Vilaça; A. Pereira; R.J. Bessa; carlos silva; VILAÇA, RICARDO; Pereira, André; Rui Bessa. Corresponding author: carlos silva. "A review on the decarbonization of high-performance computing centers". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114019. Under revision • 10.1016/j.rser.2023.114019 André Pereira; António Onofre; Alberto Proença. "HEP-Frame: an efficient tool for big data applications at the LHC". The European Physical Journal Plus (2023): https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03861-1. 10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03861-1 "HEP-Frame: Improving the efficiency of pipelined data transformation & filtering for scientific analyses". Computer Physics Communications 263 (2021): 107844-107844. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465521000151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.107844 Andre Pereira; Alberto Proenca; Pereira, André; Alberto Proenca. "PRNG-Broker: A High-Performance Broker to Supply Parallel Streams of Pseudorandom Numbers for Large-Scale Simulations". Principles of Data Science (2021): 167-183. https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/60621681/. 10.1007/978-3-030-69984-0_14
Thesis / Dissertation	"HEP-Frame: a Development Aid and Efficient Execution Engine where a Multi-layer Scheduler Adaptively Orders Pipelined Data Stream Applications". PhD, Universidade do Minho, 2019. "Efficient Processing of ATLAS Events Analysis on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Platforms with Accelerator Devices". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/28042.

Other

Other output

Aplicação para apoiar a seleção de Software de Apoio à Decisão. Software. 2011. Tereso, Anabela Pereira; Pereira, André; Portela, Bernardo; Amorim, Nuno; Pereira, Rui.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/05	The Engineering Challenges at Electron Softview	Tomorrow Needs Engineering - da Academia ao Mercado Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
2022/03	Programming Microcontrollers: A Computer Scientist’s Perspective	Núcleo de Estudantes de Física da Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
2015/02	Developing Efficient Parallel Code for Heterogeneous Platforms	Inverted CERN School of Computing CERN (Genebra, Switzerland)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/10/01 - Current	Development and Implementation of Scheduling Algorithms for High-Performance Computing Systems Supervisor	Mestrado em engenharia informática (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current	Performance and Carbon Footprint Modelling of Irregular Tasks Supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Física (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current	Energy-aware scheduling of irregular tasks Supervisor	Mestrado em Física da Informação (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current	Improving performance of advanced computing software Supervisor	Mestrado em Física da Informação (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current	Exploring the performance of SYCL in heterogeneous servers Supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2022/10 - Current	A Software Engineering Methodology for Test-Driven Verification and Performance Analysis of Compilation Toolchains Supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/10 - Current	Upgrading the HEP-Frame Scheduling Dependency Graph to Support Conditional Task Graphs Supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018 - Current	Adapting HEP-Frame for a Streaming Approach to a Linear Algebra OLAP Engine Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/10 - Current	Towards Efficient Deep Learning Algorithms Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/10 - 2023/01	Improving the Efficiency of Digital Image Correlation Computation for SEM Images Supervisor	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/12	Integration of Local and Remote Hardware Accelerators into Parallel and Distributed Applications Using HPX Co-supervisor	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/10 - 2021/11	Optimisation of Deep Learning Algorithms for an Autonomous RC Vehicle Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/10 - 2021/06	Improving the Efficiency of the Energy-Split Tool to Compute the Energy of Very Large Molecular Systems Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/10 - 2018/11	Deeploy: a Neural Network Computer Vision Tool for the NVidia Tegra TX2 Embedded System Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015/10 - 2016/12	Integrating Heterogeneous Computing Features Into HEP-Frame Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/10/25 - 2022/10/27	Responsible for planing, organising, producing content, and lecturing theoretical and lab sessions of a three-day workshop on High Performance Computing. This workshop resulted from an invitation by the Portuguese Navy and was held at the Instituto Hidrográfico in Lisbon. The majority of the sessions were under my responsibility in terms of lecturing and guiding the trainees through the practical exercises. (2022/10/25 - 2022/10/27) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Instituto Hidrográfico, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/05 - 2024/05	Participação na conferência Conference	International Supercomputing (ISC)
2023/11/10 - 2023/11/20	Supercomputing 2023 Conference	SC23
2023/11/07 - 2023/11/08	Rede Nacional de Computação Avançada Meeting	RNCA 2023 Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/05	EUMaster4HPC Plenary Meeting Meeting
2022/09/12 - 2022/09/13	The Portuguese EuroCC National Center of Competence, in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenACC.org, hosted a GPU programming Bootcamp aimed primarily at the community of Portuguese researchers and students who use GPUs as the main tool for their HPC+AI workloads. Workshop	NCC Portugal AI for Science Bootcamp Fundacao de Computacao Cientifica Nacional, Portugal
2022/08/07 - 2022/08/08	A workshop uniting the users of MACC resources and other academic and industry partners. Workshop	Minho Advanced Computing Center User Group Workshop Universidade do Minho Advanced Computing Center, Portugal
2021/07/15 - 2021/07/18	A workshop uniting the users of MACC resources and other academic and industry partners. Workshop	Minho Advanced Computing Center User Group Workshop Universidade do Minho Advanced Computing Center, Portugal
2020/08/27 - 2020/08/30	The 2020 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing Conference	The 2020 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing American Council on Science and education, United States
2017/12/18 - 2017/12/20	The 2017 Workshop on Advanced Computing for Earth Sciences Workshop	The 2017 Workshop on Advanced Computing for Earth Sciences Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016/07/18 - 2016/07/22	The 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference	The 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation IEEE, United States
2015/12/07 - 2015/12/09	The 2015 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence Conference	The 2015 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence American Council on Science and education, United States
2014/08/24 - 2014/09/06	The 37th CERN School of Computing Workshop	The 37th CERN School of Computing Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire, Switzerland
2014/06/30 - 2014/07/03	The 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications Conference	The 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014/06/25 - 2014/06/27	Summer School on Parallel High Performance Computing using Accelerators Workshop	Summer School on Parallel High Performance Computing using Accelerators Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014/01/20 - 2014/01/28	The 4th International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Symposium	The 4th International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/12	Exploring,heterogeneity with, multicore CPU and, integrated GPUs (Thesis) Main arguer	André Cerqueira (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10	Optimizing Real-time Physics Simulation using GPGPU Techniques (Thesis) Main arguer	Ricardo Pereira (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023/06/30 - Current	Castiel2 AI Training Task Force

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/12/01 - 2025/01/22	International Supercomputing (ISC)	Hamburgo

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018 - Current	Arquitetura de Computadores	Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018 - Current	Arquitetura de Computadores	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018 - Current	Sistemas da Computação	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - Current	Sistemas da Computação	Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - Current	Sistemas da Computação	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/09/12 - 2022/09/13	NCC Portugal AI for Science Bootcamp
2021 - 2022	Programação Paralela	Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Computação Paralela	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 - 2022	Sistemas da Computação	Licenciatura em Ciências da Computação (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Arquiteturas Avançadas	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Paradigmas de Computação Paralela	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - 2017	Arquiteturas Avançadas	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/06 - 2016/06	3-day school focused on creating the theoretical and practical foundations for the development of efficient parallel code targeted at the non-computing scientific community. The goal was to give the tools and expertise to scientists from the most diverse fields to efficiently use the university’s advanced computing resources, such as the SeARCH computing cluster.	Summer School in Advanced Scientific Computing (Outros)	The University of Texas at Austin Texas Advanced Computing Center, United States Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015 - 2016	Arquitetura de Dispositivos Móveis	Desenvolvimento de Aplicações Móveis (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2018/09 - 2019/07	Neural Net Computing in Embedded Systems	Manuel Moreno
2018/09 - 2019/07	Neural Net Computing in Embedded Systems	Nuno Magalhães
2015/09 - 2016/07	Porting Heterogeneous Schedulers into HEP-Frame	Nelson Torres
2015/09 - 2016/07	Porting Heterogeneous Schedulers into HEP-Frame	Tiago Santos
2014/09 - 2015/07	Performance Evaluation of an ATLAS Experiment Data Analysis Application	John Maia
2014/09 - 2015/07	Performance Evaluation of an ATLAS Experiment Data Analysis Application	José Silva

Distinctions

Award

2024	Prémio de Mérito Pedagógico Universidade do Minho, Portugal