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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
FLORA JOSÉ DA ROCHA FERREIRA

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Flora
  • Ferreira, F.
  • Ferreira, Flora J.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9E10-1786-A5E7
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1558-7230
Google Scholar ID
HbotZkgAAAAJ&hl
Researcher Id
D-5772-2017
Scopus Author Id
56352828600

Email addresses

  • flora.ferreira@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua das Janelas, nº391, 4835-173, Polvoreira, Guimarães, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 Specialization in Medical Informatics (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
17
2014/05/08
Concluded
 Mathematics (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
"Multi-bump solutions in dynamic neural fields: Analysis and Applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008
Concluded
 Mathematics and Applications to Mechanics (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
" Análise de um modelo dinâmico competitivo para a tomada de decisões em robots autónomos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/muito Bom
2005
Concluded
 Mathematics Teaching (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/05 - 2021/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2019/04/29 - 2019/09/04 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/09/30 Postdoc (Research) Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Apoio à Decisão, Portugal
2015/09/11 - 2016/09/10 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2014/05/05 - 2014/08/05 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/09/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2025/08/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/10/01 - 2022/03/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/10/15 - 2019/08/15 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2017/02/20 - 2018/07/31 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2016/04/14 - 2017/02/18 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2014/02/01 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/10/01 - 2025/08/31 Data analyst BERD - Bridge Engineering Research & Design, Portugal
2005 - 2010 Mathematics Teacher (group 500) Direção-Geral da Administração e do Emprego Público, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022 - Current I-CATER
PTDC/EEI-ROB/3488/2021
Researcher
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 PPS14. BEN-New Generation (PRR BE.Neutral )
02-C05-i01.02-2022.PC644874240-00000016
Researcher
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Center of Mathematics of the University of Minho
UIDP/00013/2020
10.54499/UIDP/00013/2020
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Center of Mathematics of the University of Minho
UIDB/00013/2020
10.54499/UIDB/00013/2020
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/09 - 2021/10 Neurofield
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031393
Post-doc
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centre for Mathematics of the University of Porto
UID/MAT/00144/2019
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Investigação ALGORITMI
UID/CEC/00319/2019
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01 - 2019/12 INESC TEC – INESC Tecnologia e Ciência
154759UID
UID/EEA/50014/2019
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/04/24 - 2019/09/04 Easy Ride: Experience is everything
039334
Post-doc Fellow
Ongoing
2017/09/01 - 2018/04/30 NanoSTIMA: Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016
Post-doc Fellow
Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Apoio à Decisão, Portugal
2015/09/11 - 2016/09/10 Projeto UID/MAT/00144/2013
UID/MAT/00144/2013
Research Fellow
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 13 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/MAT/UI0013/2011
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/01 - 2020/08 PRODUTECH SIF - Solutions for the Industry of the Future
T476732472-00028157
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Concluded
2006/09/01 - 2008/12/31 JAST: Joint-Action Science and Technology
IST-IP-2-003747
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Jhonathan Barrios; Bárbara Araújo; Miguel Gago; Wolfram Erlhagen; Estela Bicho; Flora Ferreira. "Neurological Disease Classification Based on Gait Analysis Through Transformation-Based Multiple Linear Regression Normalization". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-68949-9_28
  2. Gloria Carrascal; Jhonathan Barrios; Flora Ferreira; Jairo Plaza. "Solar Radiation Forecasting: A Study Case in the Colombian Caribbean Region". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-68949-9_15
  3. Dias, Pedro; Ferreira, Flora; Guimarães, Pedro M. F.; Wojtak, Weronika; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Monteiro, Sérgio; Sousa, Emanuel; Bicho, Estela. "A Machine Learning Approach for Points of Interest Extraction and Event Classification". In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 69-82. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-63223-5_6
  4. Marta Santos; Ana Borges; Davide Carneiro; Flora Ferreira; Santos, Marta; Borges, Ana; Carneiro, Davide; Ferreira, Flora. "Time Series Analysis for Anomaly Detection of Water Consumption: A Case Study". 234-245. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-78170-5_21
  5. Ferreira, Flora; Soares, José; Sousa, Fernanda; Magalhães, Filipe; Ribeiro, Isabel; Pinto, Dânia; Pacheco, Pedro; et al. "A Meta-analysis Approach for Estimating Salary Mean and Its Confidence Interval". In Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022 Workshops, 627-639. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-10536-4_41
  6. Cunha, Ana; Ferreira, Flora; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Sousa, Emanuel; Louro, Luís; Vicente, Paulo; Monteiro, Sérgio; Bicho, Estela. "Towards Endowing Collaborative Robots with Fast Learning for Minimizing Tutors’ Demonstrations: What and When to Do?". In Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, 368-378. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-35990-4_30
  7. Wojtak, Weronika; Ferreira, Flora; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Weronika Wojtak; Flora Ferreira; Estela Bicho; et al. "Neural Field Model for Measuring and Reproducing Time Intervals". In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: Theoretical Neural Computation, 327-338. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-30487-4_26
Conference abstract
  1. Barrios, Jhonathan; Ferreira, Flora; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Gago, Miguel; Bicho, Estela. Corresponding author: Barrios, Jhonathan. "Analyzing topological Gait descriptors for improved classification of Parkinsonism". Paper presented in XXXII Conference on Classification and Data Analysis, Porto, 2025.
    Published
  2. Barrios, Jhonathan; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Gago, Miguel; Bicho, Estela; Ferreira, Flora. "Topological insights into gait for Parkinsonism differentiation". Paper presented in IX Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods (WCDANM) 2024, 2024.
    Published
  3. Barrios, Jhonathan; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Gago, Miguel; Bicho, Estela; Ferreira, Flora. Corresponding author: Barrios, Jhonathan. "Exploring the topological properties of Gait time series as a complementary tool in levodopa dose decision in Parkinson's disease". Paper presented in 6th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, 2024.
    Published
  4. Barrios, Jhonathan; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Gago, Miguel; Bicho, Estela; Ferreira, Flora. "Investigating Parkinsonism Gait Dynamics through Topological Data Analysis". Paper presented in XXXI Conference on Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD 2024), Leiria, 2024.
    Published
  5. Carrascal, G.; Barrios, Jhonathan; Plaza, J.; Ferreira, Flora. "Big Data analysis of solar radiation patterns in the Colombian Caribbean region". Paper presented in XXVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (SPE2023), Guimarães, 2023.
    Published
  6. Barrios, Jhonathan; ARAÚJO, BÁRBARA; Bicho, Estela; Gago, Miguel; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Ferreira, Flora. "Enhancing gait analysis through transformation-based multiple linear regression normalization". Paper presented in XXVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (SPE2023), Guimarães, 2023.
    Accepted
  7. Ferreira, Flora; Pedrosa, Ana; Borges, Ana; Soares, José M; Pacheco, Pedro. "Exploring the Influence of Various Factors on Salaries: A Regression Analysis Approach". Paper presented in XXVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (SPE2023), guimaraes, 2023.
    Published
  8. Bastos, João; Ferreira, Flora; Silva, Duarte; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Bicho, Estela. "Clustering analysis for household week-daily water consumption profiles characterization". Paper presented in XXX Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, Viana do Castelo, 2023.
    Published
  9. Cunha, Tatiana; Costa e Silva, Eliana; Ferreira, Flora. "Modeling of hourly water consumption of residential clients in the north of Portugal". Paper presented in XXX Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, Viana do Castelo, 2023.
    Published
  10. Gago, Miguel; Ferreira, Flora; Bicho, Estela; Silva, Ângela; Alegria, Carlos; Rodrigues, Maria Lurdes. "Predictive features of improvement after shunt surgery in normal pressure hydrocephalus: a gait analysis prospective study". Paper presented in Congresso Sociedade Portuguesa das Doenças do Movimento, Luso, 2022.
    Published
  11. Araújo, Elisa; Ferreira, Flora; Silva,Duarte; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Silva, Duarte. "Clustering domestic water consumption profiles: a Portuguese case study". Paper presented in XXVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD 2021), Covilhã, 2021.
    Published
  12. Moura, Ana; Ferreira, Flora; Bicho, Estela; Braga, José; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Azevedo, Olga; Gago, Miguel F.. "The association between potential risk factors and cerebral white matter lesions in Fabry Disease patients". Paper presented in Journal of Statistics on Health Decision, 2021.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v3i1.24751
  13. Fernandes, Carlos; Ferreira, Flora; Gago, Miguel F.; Azevedo, Olga; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Bicho, Estela. "Normalization of gait features using Multiple Regression approach to classify Fabry's Disease". Paper presented in JOCLAD 2020 - XXVII Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, 2020.
    Published
  14. Ferreira, Flora; Almeida, Marisa; Silva, Duarte; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Erlhagen, Wolfram. "Preliminary Screening of Probabilistic Models for Water Flow Measurement". Paper presented in JOCLAD 2020 - XXVI Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, Lisboa, 2020.
    Published
  15. Ferreira, Flora; Fernandes, Carlos; Braga, José; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Gago, Miguel F.. "The effect of levodopa medication on stride time variability in patients with parkinsonism". Paper presented in Journal of Statistics on Health Decision, 2020.
    10.34624/jshd.v2i2.20108
  16. Santos, Marta; Ferreira, Flora; Borges, Ana; Carneiro, Davide. "Detection analysis of breaks in water consumption patterns: a simulation study". Paper presented in VII Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods, 2020.
    Published
  17. Marques, Luís; Ferreira, Flora; Correia, Aldina; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram. "Feature Extraction using Poincaré Plots for Gait Classification". Paper presented in 25th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD 2019), 2019.
    Published
  18. Flora Ferreira; Carlos Fernandes; Miguel Gago; Nuno Sousa; Wolfram Erlhagen; Estela Bicho. "Normalization of foot clearance and spatiotemporal gait data using multiple linear regression models". Paper presented in XVI Journeys of Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD2019), Viseu, 2019.
    Published
  19. Ferreira, Flora; Carlos Fernandes; Miguel Gago; Nuno Sousa; Wolfram Erlhagen; Estela Bicho. "Identification of gait patterns among patients with parkinsonism based on normalized gait obtained using multiple regression models". Paper presented in STATISTICS ON HEALTH DECISION MAKING: STATE OF THE ART, Aveiro, 2019.
    10.34624/jshd.v1i1.2755
  20. Fernandes, Carlos; Ferreira, Flora; Gago, Miguel F.; Azevedo, Olga; Sousa, Nuno; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Bicho, Estela. "Performance analysis of different kernels on SVM classification using different feature selection methods on Parkinsonian gait". Paper presented in In VI Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods, (WCDANM), 2019.
    Published
  21. Gago, MF; Ferreira, F; Carvalho, C; Mollaei, N; Bicho, E; Rodrigues, L; Sousa, N; Gama, J; Ferreira, C. "Foot clearance pattern: a distinctive gait variable in vascular Parkinson's disease". Paper presented in In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, vol. 25, pp. 420-420. 1, 2018.
    Published
  22. Ferreira, Flora; Mollaei, Nafiseh ; Bicho, Estela; Sousa, Nuno; Gama, João; Ferreira, Carlos. "Comparative analysis of independent domains of gait derived from factor analysis in patients with Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in XXV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados (JOCLAD 2018), Almada, 2018.
    Published
  23. Ferreira, Flora; Gago, Miguel; Bicho, Estela; Sousa, Nuno; Gama, João; Ferreira, Carlos. "Poincaré plot in gait variability analysis". Paper presented in V Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods, Felgueiras, 2018.
    Published
  24. Ferreira, Flora; Gago, Miguel; Mollaei, Nafiseh ; Sousa, Nuno; Rodrigues, Pedro Pereira; Bicho, Estela; Ferreira, Flora. "Análise cinemática da marcha como ferramenta complementar de decisão na doença de Parkinson Vascular". Paper presented in XXIV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados (JOCLAD 2017), Porto, 2017.
    Published
  25. Gago, M; Ferreira, F; Mollaei, N; Rodrigues, M; Sousa, N; Bicho, E; Rodrigues, P. "Gait analysis as a complementary tool in the levodopa dose decision in vascular Parkinson's disease". Paper presented in 21St International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in: Movement Disorders, 2017.
Conference paper
  1. Letícia Cocato; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Bicho, Estela; Vicente, Paulo; Ferreira, Flora. "Factors Influencing Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: A Case Study". Paper presented in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2025, Istambul, 2025.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-97589-9_28
  2. Cunha, Tatiana; Costa e Silva, Eliana; Ferreira, Flora. "Individual Water Consumption Forecasting: Evaluating SARIMA and TBATS Methods". 2024.
    10.1145/3686592.3686602
  3. Barrios, Jhonathan; ARAÚJO, BÁRBARA; Gago, Miguel; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Bicho, Estela; Ferreira, Flora. "Neurological Disease Classification based on Gait Analysis through Transformation-Based Multiple Linear Regression Normalization". Paper presented in XXVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (SPE2023), Guimarães, 2023.
    Under revision
  4. Flora Ferreira; Jhonathan Barrios; Paulo Barbosa; Miguel F Gago; Estela Bicho; Wolfram Erlhagen. "Impact of Variable Transformations on Multiple Regression Models for Enhancing Gait Normalization". 2023.
    10.1145/3613347.3613363
  5. Guimaraes, Pedro; Ferreira, Flora; Silva, Ana Carolina; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Monteiro, Sergio; Bicho, Estela; Guimarães, P; et al. "A Data Recording Mobile Application to Create Datasets of Vehicle Users’ Routines". Paper presented in 22nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC2022), 2022.
    10.1109/icarsc55462.2022.9784770
  6. Barbosa, P; Ferreira, F; Fernandes, C; Erlhagen, W; Guimarães, P; Wojtak, W; Monteiro, S; et al. "Endowing Intelligent Vehicles with the Ability to Learn User's Habits and Preferences with Machine Learning Methods". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-21753-1_16
  7. Silva, Eliana Costa e; Ferreira, Flora; Costa e Silva, Eliana; Ferreira, Flora. "Individualized monitoring and forecasting of water consumption: A preliminary study". Paper presented in 20TH International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2022), 2022.
    Accepted • 10.1063/5.0211635
  8. Santos, Marta; Borges, Ana; Carneiro, Davide; Ferreira, Flora. "Synthetic Dataset to Study Breaks in the Consumer's Water Consumption Patterns". Paper presented in 3rd International Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation Conference (AMMS 2021), 2021.
    Accepted • 10.1145/3475827.3475836
  9. Patel, Ankit R.; Ferreira, Flora; Monteiro, Sergio; Silva, Ana Carolina; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Bicho, Estela; Patel, AR; et al. "Prediction of attitudes towards human-centred cognitive vehicles aware of their users' routines and preferences". 2021.
    10.1109/rtsi50628.2021.9597265
  10. Cunha, A.; Ferreira, F.; Sousa, E.; Louro, L.; Vicente, P.; Monteiro, S.; Erlhagen, W.; et al. "Towards collaborative robots as intelligent co-workers in human-robot joint tasks: What to do and who does it?". Paper presented in ISR 2020 - 52th International Symposium on Robotics, 2020.
  11. Ferreira, Flora; Wojtka, Weronika; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Vicente, Paulo; Ankit, Patel R.; Monteiro, Sérgio. "A dynamic neural model for endowing intelligent cars with the ability to learn driver routines: where to go, when to arrive and how long to stay there?". Paper presented in Towards Cognitive Vehicles Workshop – IROS 2019, Macau, 2019.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.13655636.v1
  12. Silva, Duarte Veloso; Sampaio, Maurício; Milagres, Carlos; Alves, Vítor Ferreira; Ferreira, Flora; Silva, D.V.; Sampaio, M.; et al. "Flow4Link - The flow in the hand". Paper presented in 18th International Flow Measurement Conference, FLOMEKO 2019, Lisboa, 2019.
  13. Wojtak, W; Ferreira, F; Bicho, E; Erlhagen, W. "Numerical Analysis of the Shape of Bump Solutions in a Neuronal Model of Working Memory". 2019.
    10.1063/1.5114243
  14. Fernandes, C; Ferreira, F; Gago, M; Azevedo, O; Sousa, N; Erlhagen, W; Bicho, E; et al. "Gait classification of patients with Fabry's disease based on normalized gait features obtained using multiple regression models". 2019.
    10.1109/bibm47256.2019.8983241
  15. Wojtak, W; Ferreira, F; Louro, L; Bicho, E; Erlhagen, W. "Towards temporal cognition for robots: A neurodynamics approach". 2018.
    10.1109/devlrn.2017.8329836
  16. Fernandes, C; Fonseca, L; Ferreira, F; Gago, MF; Costa, L; Sousa, N; Ferreira, C; et al. "Artificial Neural Networks Classification of Patients with Parkinsonism based on Gait". 2018.
    10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621466
  17. Ferreira, Flora; Gago, Miguel; Mollaei, Nafiseh; Bicho, Estela; Sousa, Nuno; Gama, João; Ferreira, Carlos. "Objective graphical clustering of spatiotemporal gait pattern in patients with Parkinsonism". 2018.
    10.1063/5.0026489
  18. Wojtak, W; Ferreira, F; Erlhagen, W; Bicho, E; Wojtak, W.; Ferreira, F.; Erlhagen, W.; Bicho, E.. "Learning joint representations for order and timing of perceptual-motor sequences: A dynamic neural field approach". 2015.
    10.1109/ijcnn.2015.7280717
  19. Ferreira, F.; Erlhagen, W.; Sousa, E.; Louro, L.; Bicho, E.. "Learning a musical sequence by observation: A robotics implementation of a dynamic neural field model". 2014.
    10.1109/devlrn.2014.6982973
  20. Bicho, E; Erlhagen, W; Sousa, E; Louro, L; Hipolito, N; Silva, EC; Silva, R; et al. "The Power of Prediction: Robots that Read Intentions". 2012.
    10.1109/IROS.2012.6386297
  21. Ferreira, F; Erlhagen, W; Bicho, E. "A Dynamic Field Model of Ordinal and Timing Properties of Sequential Events". 2011.
    10.1007/978-3-642-21738-8_42
Journal article
  1. Pedro M. F. Guimarães; Flora Ferreira; Weronika Wojtak; Paulo J. S. Barbosa; Sérgio Monteiro; Estela Bicho; Wolfram Erlhagen. "A Dynamic Neural Field Approach for Intelligent Cockpits: Online Learning and Prediction of Traveling Routines". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2024): https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2024.3463389.
    10.1109/TITS.2024.3463389
  2. Wojtak, Weronika; Ferreira, Flora; Louro, Luís; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Louro, Luis; Wojtak, W.; et al. "Adaptive timing in a dynamic field architecture for natural human–robot interactions". Cognitive Systems Research 82 (2023): 101148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2023.101148.
    10.1016/j.cogsys.2023.101148
  3. Gago, Miguel F.; Ferreira, Flora; Bicho, Estela. "Quantitative gait analysis value as a predictor of shunt surgery effectiveness in normal pressure hydrocephalus: a technical note". Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery (2022): 107405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2022.107405.
    10.1016/j.clineuro.2022.107405
  4. Ferreira, Flora; Wojtak, Weronika; Sousa, Emanuel; Louro, Luis; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram. "Rapid Learning of Complex Sequences With Time Constraints: A Dynamic Neural Field Model". IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 13 4 (2021): 853-864. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcds.2020.2991789.
    10.1109/tcds.2020.2991789
  5. da Costa, Nuno M. C.; Bicho, Estela; Ferreira, Flora; Vilhena, Estela; Dias, Nuno S.. "A Multivariate Randomized Controlled Experiment about the Effects of Mindfulness Priming on EEG Neurofeedback Self-Regulation Serious Games". Applied Sciences 11 16 (2021): 7725. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11167725.
    10.3390/app11167725
  6. Fernandes, Carlos; Ferreira, Flora; Lopes, Rui L.; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Sousa, Nuno; Gago, Miguel F.. "Discrimination of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease and vascular parkinsonism based on gait time series and the levodopa effect". Journal of Biomechanics 125 (2021): 110214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110214.
    10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110214
  7. Wojtak, Weronika; Ferreira, Flora; Vicente, Paulo; Louro, Luís; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram. "A neural integrator model for planning and value-based decision making of a robotics assistant". Neural Computing and Applications (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05224-8.
    10.1007/s00521-020-05224-8
  8. Vieira, Manuel V.C.; Ferreira, Flora. "Packing Shoes Efficiently". Impact 2020 2 (2020): 34-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2058802x.2020.1805218.
    10.1080/2058802x.2020.1805218
  9. Vieira, Manuel V. C.; Ferreira, Flora; Duque, José C. M.; Almeida, Rui M. P.. "On the packing process in a shoe manufacturer". Journal of the Operational Research Society (2020): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2019.1700765.
    10.1080/01605682.2019.1700765
  10. Ferreira, F; Gago, MF; Bicho, E; Carvalho, C; Mollaei, N; Rodrigues, L; Sousa, N; et al. "Gait stride-to-stride variability and foot clearance pattern analysis in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease and Vascular Parkinsonism". JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS (2019):
    10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.05.039
  11. Faria, C; Ferreira, F; Erlhagen, W; Monteiro, S; Bicho, E. "Position-based kinematics for 7-DoF serial manipulators with global configuration control, joint limit and singularity avoidance". MECHANISM AND MACHINE THEORY (2018):
    10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2017.10.025
  12. Manuela A. D. Aguiar; Ana Paula S. Dias; Flora Ferreira. "Patterns of synchrony for feed-forward and auto-regulation feed-forward neural networks". Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 27 1 (2017): 013103-013103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4973234.
    10.1063/1.4973234
  13. Ferreira, Flora; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram. "Multi-bump solutions in a neural field model with external inputs". Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (2016):
    10.1016/j.physd.2016.01.009
  14. Sousa, E; Erlhagen, W; Ferreira, F; Bicho, E. "Off-line simulation inspires insight: A neurodynamics approach to efficient robot task learning". NEURAL NETWORKS (2015):
    10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.002
Magazine article
  1. Ferreira, Flora; Erlhagen, Wolfram. "Modelo matemático que dota os robôs com a capacidade de aprender sequências temporais", Gazeta de Matemática, 2022, https://gazeta.spm.pt/fichagazeta?id=198.
Online resource
  1. Santos, Marta; Borges, Ana; Carneiro, Davide; Ferreira, Flora. Synthetic Datasets of Water Consumptions. 2021. https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/v4ynw83j6k/2.
    10.17632/v4ynw83j6k.2
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ferreira, Flora. "Multi-bump solutions in dynamic neural fields: analysis and applications". 2014.

Other

Other output
  1. A competitive dynamic model for decision making in autonomous robots performing cooperative tasks. 2009. Flora Ferreira; Estela Bicho; Wolfram Erlhagen.
    10.13140/2.1.1284.9607
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/09/08 Data-Driven Insights into Trust for Decision-Making in Social Robot Interaction XXIV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional (IO2025)
ESTG, Politécnico do Porto (Amarante, Portugal)
2025/06/30 Factors Influencing Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: A Case Study International Conference of Computational Science and Its Applications ICCSA 2025
Galarasaray University (Istambul, Turkey)
2025/04/03 Clustering for Points of Interest Identification: Insights from Recent Research JOCLAD2025 - XXXII Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados
Polytechnic of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2024/12/10 Intelligent Systems for Learning Sequences with Time Constraints 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications (icSoftComp2024)
(Thailand)
2024/07/22 Matemática: O Cérebro Oculto da Inteligência Robótica Verão no Campus
(Braga, Portugal)
2024/07/10 An overview of topological data analysis for time series Encontro Nacional da SPM 2024
(Braga, Portugal)
2024/06/24 Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches in Gait Data Analysis for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring 6th International Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation Conference
(Amarante, Portugal)
2023/10/14 Exploring Topological Properties in the Analysis of Gait Second ANAP Meeting
(Arouca, Portugal)
2023/09/12 Comparing LSTM, GRU, and CNN for Forecasting the Density of Mobile Network Users and Flows 21TH International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2023)
(Crete, Greece)
2023/07/15 Impact of Variable Transformations on Multiple Regression Models for Enhancing Gait Normalization 5th International Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation Conference (AMMS 2023)
(Leipzig, Germany)
2023/05/24 O poder da Matemática : da robótica à descoberta de conhecimento em bases de dados Festival Pint of Science
Pint of Science (Braga, Portugal)
2023/05/15 Um robot para ser inteligente precisa de "ter dentro de si" matemática Projeto Ler Ciência
Biblioteca Municipal de Vila Nova de Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal)
2023/04/21 Clustering analysis for household week-daily water consumption profiles characterization XXX Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados
CLAD (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2022/07/05 A Meta-analysis Approach for Estimating Salary Mean and Its Confidence Interval Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022
University of Malaga (Málaga, Spain)
2022/03/24 A Spatial and temporal clustering approach based on Dynamic Neural Fields Seminários CMAT
CMAT, Universidade do Minho
2021/12/11 Clustering domestic water consumption profiles: a Portuguese case study XXVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD 2021)
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã)
2021/09/17 Dynamic Identification of Stop Locations from GPS Trajectories Based on Their Temporal and Spatial Characteristics 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2021)
European Neural Network Society (Bratislava, Slovakia)
2021/07/13 Rapid learning of complex sequences with time constraints: A dynamic neural field model National Meeting of the Portuguese Mathematical Society - ENSPM 2021
Portuguese Mathematical Society (Lisbon)
2021/04/23 Um robô para ser inteligente precisa de "ter dentro de si " matemática! Iniciativa " Investigadores voltam à escola"
Escola Secundária de Caldas das Taipas (Guimarães, Portugal)
2021/03/23 Um robô para ser inteligente precisa de "ter dentro de si " matemática! Programa O Melhor Estudante na Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2020/12/17 Um robô para ser inteligente precisa de "ter dentro de si " matemática! Programa O Melhor Estudante na Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
2020/10/26 Rapid learning of complex sequences with time constraints: a dynamic neural field model ICDL-EPIROB2020 - International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics
(Chile)
2020/10/22 Preliminary Screening of Probabilistic Models for Water Flow Measurement JOCLAD 2020 -XXVI Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados
(Portugal)
2020/07/01 Gait Characteristics and Their Discriminative Ability in Patients with Fabry Disease with and Without White-Matter Lesions ICCSA 2020 - 20st International Conference on Computational Science and Applications
(Italy)
2019/10/19 Learning Sequences with Time Constraints International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired Computing (ICCBC 2019)
Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
2019/06/27 Performance analysis of different kernels on SVM classification using different feature selection methods on Parkinsonian gait VI Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods (WCDANM)
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/04/12 Normalization of foot clearance and spatiotemporal gait data using multiple linear regression models JOCLAD 2019, XXVI Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Classification and Data Analysis
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (Viseu, Portugal)
2018/09/17 Objective Graphical Clustering of Spatio-temporal Gait Pattern in Parkinson’s Disease Using Principal Components 16th International conference of numerical analysis and applied mathematics
Prof. T. E. Simos (Rhodes, Greece)
2018/07/17 Monitoring Motor fluctuations through Gait Variability in neurological motor disorders |Parkinson's and Alzheimer’s diseases: Principles, Algorithms and Applications for Clinical Decision Support 1º Workshop Robótica na Saúde
Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05/12 Poincaré plot in gait variability analysis V Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods (WCDANM)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão (Felgueiras, Portugal)
2018/04/06 Comparative analysis of independent domains of gait derived from factor analysis in patients with Parkinson’s disease XXV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados
Escola Naval (Almada, Portugal)
2017/04/20 Análise cinemática da marcha como ferramenta complementar de decisão na doença de Parkinson Vascular XXIV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2016/07/08 Multi-bump solutions in a neural field model: analysis and application in cognitive robotics Seminários de Sistemas Dinâmicos
Universidade do Porto centro de Matemática (Porto, Portugal)
2014/05/31 Formação de múltiplas regiões de excitação em campos dinâmicos neuronais: análise e aplicações I Encontro de Doutorandos do CMAT
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática (Braga, Portugal)
2011/02/25 Multi-bump solutions in dynamic fields: Mathematics and application in robotics Seminários de Análise Numérica e Matemática Computacional
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática (Guimaraes, Portugal)
2009/04/13 Análise de um modelo dinâmico competitivo para a tomada de decisões em robôs autónomos Seminários de Análise Numérica e Matemática Computacional
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática (Guimaraes, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current Developing Novel Techniques for Gait Dynamics Analysis using Topological Data Analysis and Neural Networks
Supervisor
 Matemática e Aplicações (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/09 - Current Novel Methods for Learning the Neural Connectivity in Dynamic Neural Fields
Co-supervisor
 Matemática e Aplicações (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/03 - Current In-car recommendation engine: development of solutions towards a cognitive system for drivers mobility routines
Co-supervisor
 Sistemas Avançados de Engenharia para a Indústria (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/11 - 2025/06 Understanding and predicting user trust in human-robot collaboration: a machine learning approach
Supervisor
 Matemática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/10 - 2025/03/11 Fatores que Influenciam a Confiança na Interação Humano-Robô: um Estudo de Caso
Supervisor
 Estatística para Ciência de Dados (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/10 - 2025/01/15 Estrutura hierárquica para deteção de anomalias em séries temporais multidimensionais
Supervisor
 Matemática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/10 - 2025/01/10 Discrimination of Neurological Diseases based on Gait Time Series using Topological Data Analysis
Supervisor
 Estatística para Ciência de Dados (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/11/01 - 2024/03/05 Otimização da oferta a clientes numa cadeia de retalho de vestuário
Supervisor
 Estatística para Ciência de Dados (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2024/03 Aprendizagem Automática na Análise de Marcha para o Diagnóstico de Doenças Neurodegenerativas: Desafios com Pequenos Conjuntos de Dados
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2024/03 Design and Evaluation of a Cognitive Vehicle System: Emphasizing User Routine Learning and Interaction
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2024/03 Aprendizagem Automática na Análise de Marcha para o Diagnóstico de Doenças Neurodegenerativas: Desafios com Pequenos Conjuntos de Dados
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2024/02/26 Exploração de diferentes técnicas de machine learning para a deteção de padrões de consumo de água
Supervisor
 Matemática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2023/12/18 An Approach To Optimal Trajectory With Neural Networks
Supervisor
 Matemática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2023/12 Previsão de Salários: Uma abordagem integrada de Estatística e Machine Learning
Co-supervisor
 Gestão e Decisão Industrial (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2022/10 - 2023/11/21 Uso de inteligência artificial para modelação de perfis de consumo energético de casas inteligentes
Supervisor
 Matemática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/06 Insight RideCare – Classification methods for assessing triggering factors of malfunction
Supervisor
2021/10/01 - 2022/12/19 Neuromorphic Cognition: an approach toward robotic systems that learn, adapt and predict sequential tasks with time constraints
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/11 - 2022/05/12 Detecting important electrocardiogram characteristics for the diagnosis of Fabry disease via statistics and machine learning techniques
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/10 - 2022/02/10 Deteção de anomalias em séries temporais de fluxo de água usando métodos de machine learning
Supervisor
 Matemática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/10 - 2021/12 Técnicas de machine learning aplicadas à marcha para monitorização personalizada da toma da medicação levodopa em doentes com Parkinson
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/11 - 2021/07/27 Anomaly Detection of Water Consumption
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Métodos de Apoio à Decisão Empresarial (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2019/11 - 2021/06/28 Machine learning for differential diagnosis of white matter lesions in Fabry Disease patients based on gait and cardiac characteristics
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07 Supportive Solution Development for Dynamic Driving Using Machine Learning Techniques
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Other)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07 Users Aware Cognitive Car
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/11 Clinical Decision Support using Machine Learning: Fabry Disease and Parkinsonism
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2018/02 - 2018/06 Sistema de Diagnóstico de Doenças Neurodegenerativas: Doença de Parkinson
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Other)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/04 - Current Organized and managed a special session "Mathematical Modeling" within the main conference "7th International Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation Conference (AMMS 2025)", inviting leading researchers in the field, and ensuring as chair the successful flow of presentations. (2025/09/24 - 2025/09/26)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2024/02 - 2024/07 Iberian Modelling Week (IMW) Part of the event organizing committee and coordinator of one of the issues. https://www.spm.pt/PT-MATHS-IN/10imw/index.html (2024/07/15 - 2024/07/19)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/03 CMAT LabsFest is an initiative by CMAT. CMAT LabsFest aims to gather all four CMAT laboratories (InLab, PosLab, OutLab, CMAT Junior Group). The event programme includes the celebration of the International Day of Mathematics. (2023/03/14 - 2023/03/15)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2018/04 - 2018/04 Workshop Oficina de Modelação (Dinamizadora) (2018/04/27 - 2018/04/27)
Workshop (Other)
 Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2012/04 - 2012/04 Como membro do grupo de Robótica Móvel e Antropomórfica colaborei na organização da conferência Robótica 2012: 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (2012/04/11 - 2012/04/15)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/19 - 2024/04/20 Poster presentation of the work entitled: "Retail sales forecasting and distribution efficiency through advanced data analysis"
Conference
 XXXI Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados- J0CLAD 2024
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2023/10/13 - 2023/10/14 Poster presentation of the work entitled: "Exploring the Influence of Various Factors on Salaries: A Regression Analysis Approach"
Conference
 XXVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (SPE2023)
2022/07/19 - 2022/07/23 Poster presentation of the work entitled: "Pooled Mean and Confidence Interval Estimation Combining Different Sets of Summary Statistics"
Conference
 17th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies - IFCS 2022
2022/07/05 - 2022/07/05 Chair in Computational Mathematics, Statistics and Information Management - CMSIM - A1 Workshop
Conference
 Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
2021/07/22 - 2021/07/22 Poster presentation of the work entitled "The association between potential risk factors and cerebral white matter lesions in Fabry Disease patients"
Meeting
 3rd Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/10/23 - 2020/10/23 Poster presentation of the work entitled "The effect of levodopa medication on stride time variability in patients with parkinsonism"
Meeting
 2nd SHDM - Statistics on health decision making: clinical trials
2019/11/08 - 2019/11/08 Poster presentation of the work entitled "A dynamic neural model for endowing intelligent cars with the ability to learn driver routines: where to go, when to arrive and how long to stay there?" COGNITIVE VEHICLES WORKSHOP - IROS 2019
2019/10/31 - 2019/10/31 Poster presentation of the work entitled "Feature Extraction using Poincaré Plots for Gait Classification"
Conference
 RECPAD 2019 (Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition)
2019/05/10 - 2019/05/10 Poster presentation of the work entitled "Identification of gait patterns among patients with parkinsonism based on normalized gait obtained using multiple regression models".
Meeting
 Statistics on Health Decision Making: state of the art meeting
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/01/03 - 2019/01/03 Workshop: É Matemática (Presentation of a challenge and coordination of the working groups)
Workshop
 Workshop: É Matemática
Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2012/04/19 - 2012/04/21 Poster presentation of the work entitled "Multi-bump solutions in a neural field with transient external input"
Conference
 2nd International Conference on Neural Field Theory
2011/06/14 - 2011/06/17 Poster presentation of the work entitled "A dynamic field model of ordinal and timing properties of sequential events"
Conference
 21th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: ICANN '11

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/06/04 Understanding and predicting user trust in human-robot collaboration: a machine learning approach
Supervisor
 Daniela Sofia Pereira Arruda (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/03/11 Fatores que Influenciam a Confiança na Interação Humano-Robô: um Estudo de Caso
Supervisor
 Letícia França Cocato (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/01/15 Estrutura hierárquica para deteção de anomalias em séries temporais multidimensionais
Supervisor
 Rui da Costa Silva (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/01/10 Discrimination of Neurological Diseases based on Gait Time Series using Topological Data Analysis
Supervisor
 Jhonathan David Barrios Martínez (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/12/16 O Poder da Informação no Planeamento da Distribuição
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Carlos Manuel Mendes Ventura (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Inovação e Investigação em Ciências Empresariais e Sistemas de Informação, Portugal
2024/12/04 Aplicações de Modelos Lineares Generalizados Mistos no estudo de Acidentes Rodoviários
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Maria Lavandeira Ferreira Maia (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2024/09/10 Neural networks for endowing a robotic coworker with the ability to learn to make decisions for efficient cooperation
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Helena Daniela Nogueira Teles (Master)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2024/09/09 Improvement of Data Quality through Outlier Detection in Time Series
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Bruno Miguel Pinheiro Alves (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/06/03 Modelação da Degradação de Marcas Rodoviárias em Autoestradas Portuguesas
(Thesis) Main arguer
 José Pimentel Camargo Neto (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/03/04 Optimização da Distribuição no Retalho de Vestuário: Estratégias Analíticas e Preditivas para Tendências de Vendas
Supervisor
 Vera Margarida da Costa e Sousa (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/02/26 Exploração de diferentes técnicas de machine learning para a deteção de padrões de consumo de água
Supervisor
 João Miguel Novais e Bastos (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/12/18 An Approach To Optimal Trajectory With Neural Networks
Supervisor
 Inês Mafalda André Ramos Moreira (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/12/12 Modelos Lineares Generalizados Mistos: Aplicação a Dados de Acidentes Rodoviários em Autoestradas
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Jair Monteiro dos Santos (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/11/21 Uso de Inteligência Artificial para modelação de perfis energéticos em casas inteligentes
Supervisor
 Catarina Videira Lima (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/12/21 Análise multivariada de dados sobre tipologia de produtos numa empresa
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nelson Filipe Sá Costa (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/11/15 Análise do impacto da pandemia no perfil e na afluência de utentes de um Hospital do Norte
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Miguel Silva Maia (Master)
Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2022/02/10 Deteção de anomalias em séries temporais de fluxo de água usando métodos de machine learning
Supervisor
 Elisa Maria Maio de Araújo (Master)
Universidade do Minho Departamento de Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Expert Systems With Applications Elsevier
2024 - Current Research in Statistics Taylor & Francis
2023/12 - Current Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2297-4687) frontiers
2022/02 - Current Intelligent Data Analysis (1571-4128) IOS press
2022/01 - Current International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2364415X, 23644168) Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022 - Current Computers in Biology and Medicine Springer-Verlag
2019/12 - Current IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2023/02/09 - 2023/03/21 Information Sciences (0020-0255) Elsevier

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/07 - 2024/09/07 Chair of "Computational Data Analysis" Session IX Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numeric Methods (WCDANM)
Member
 Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/06/24 Oral Award Chair (https://www.icoms.org/com.html)
Member
 Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025/01 - Current 7th International Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation Conference Athens, Greece
2025/02 - 2025/06/29 21th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations Limassol, Cyprus
2024/10/21 - 2024/10/23 International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2024) Santiago de Chile, Chile
2024/08/23 - 2024/08/26 The Fifteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2024) Xining, China
2024/06/27 - 2024/06/30 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applica- tions and Innovations (AIAI 2024) Corfu, Greece
2024/06/23 - 2024/06/25 6th International Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation Conference (AMMS 2024) Amarante, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/10 International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information,Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2023) Madrid, Spain
2023/04 - 2023/09 32th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2023) Crete, Greece
2022/04 - 2022/05 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Macau, China
2021/09/13 - 2021/09/16 21st International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications Cagliari, Italy
2021/04 - 2021/08 9th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health Online
2021/05 - 2021/05 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) European Neural Network Society
2020/10/26 - 2020/10/30 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) Valparaíso, Chile
2020/05 - 2020/08 8th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health Vancouver, Canada
2019/05 - 2019/08 IEEE 7th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2019 Kyoto, Japan
2019/03 - 2019/07 3rd International Conference in Engineering Applications Azores Island, Portugal
2018/07/09 - 2018/07/12 2018 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Applications (ICBEA) Madeira, Portugal
2014/09/15 - 2014/09/19 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Hamburg, Germany

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02 - 2025/08 Probabilidades e Estatistica Estatística Aplicada (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/03 - 2025/08 Estágio em Estatística Aplicada Licenciatura em Estatística Aplicada Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2023/03 - 2025/08 Projeto Integrado em Matemática e Computação Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - 2025/02 Álgebra Linear e Geometria Analítica para Engenharia Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/09 - 2025/02 Cálculo para Engenharia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2023/02 - 2024/08 Análise Matemática para Engenharia Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2021/10/01 - 2022/03/31 Complementos de Análise Matemática para Engenharia Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2020/10 - 2021/02 Análise Exploratória de Dados Ciências e Tecnologia do Ambiente (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07 Estatística Aplicada Engenharia de Materiais (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/02 Complementos de Análise Matemática EE Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/03 - 2019/09 Cálculo II Segurança do Trabalho e Ambiente (Licenciatura) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/07 Matemática Ano Zero (Outros) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/02 Métodos Numéricos Tecnologias da Madeira (Licenciatura) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2016/04 - 2019/02 Matemática; Matemática Complementar I e II Cibersegurança, Redes e Sistemas Informáticos (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/09 Matemática Discreta Segurança Informática em Redes de Computadores (Licenciatura) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2017/02 - 2017/07 Cálculo Financeiro Contabilidade e Administração Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2013/10 - 2014/02 Matemática Discreta (Licenciatura) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal
2005 - 2010 Matemática (Ensino Secundário e 3ºciclo do Ensino Básico) (Ensino secundário) Direção-Geral da Administração e do Emprego Público, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/09 - Current Research in Statistics Taylor & Francis
2021/07 - Current Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering AIMS press
2021/05 - Current Frontiers In Computational Neuroscience Frontiers Media
2021/02 - Current Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare Dove Medical Press
2021/01 - Current Journal of Biomechanics Elsevier
2020 - Current Clinical Interventions in Aging Dove Medical Press
2020 - Current IEEE Transactions on Games IEEE
2019 - Current Applied Computing and Informatics (2210-8327) Emerald (MCB UP )
2018 - Current International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2364-4168) Springer-Verlag
2017 - Current IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1558-2191) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2016/05/09 - 2016/05/13 NETT hands-on robotics workshop on neurodynamics Approaches to Cognitive Robotics
2011/09/04 - 2011/09/10 Hands-on Summer – School Neural Dynamics Approaches to Cognitive Robotics
Distinctions

Award

2025 Best book chapter award
2024 Best Student Paper (Presented by Pedro Dias)
Technologiko Panepistemio Kyprou, Cyprus
2020 Most Popular Presentation Award
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
2019 Best Poster Award
2019 Third Prize - project “Learning Sequences with Time Constraints”
Tsinghua University, China
2011 RobotDoc Travel Bursaries -Spring School - Award
2009 Melhor aluno no Mestrado de Matemática e aplicações à Mecânica (edição 2005/2006)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Other distinction

2022 Honourable Mentioning
The University of Manchester, United Kingdom