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I am a dedicated and focused computer engineer, currently enrolled in a PhD program at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering (FCEE), University of Madeira (UMa). Currently, I am an active integrated member of MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre and ITI/LARSyS - Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems R&D. During all my activities, I have developed various products that are used by research units around the island and in the Macaronesia region. Such include back-end pipelines for mobile applications to report marine biodiversity and marine litter, several databases for in-field assessments, web-based dynamic forms for surveying the presence of non-indigenous species (NIS), full-stack development which encompasses human-in-the-loop Machine Learning, and scalable IoT devices management systems. I am keen to utilize my skills in both computer engineering and science to provide practical tools for tackling important marine issues.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Rúben Silva Freitas
Date of birth
1998/03/03
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Freitas, Rúben
  • Freitas, José

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C11B-6DE9-14F6
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0378-108X
Google Scholar ID
1xnrzDMAAAAJ

Email addresses

  • jose.freitas@mare.arditi.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • https://ruben-freitas.pt/ (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology
Education
Degree Classification
2022 - 2026/10
Ongoing
 Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento)
Major in Inteligência Artificial
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2019/08/05 - 2021/11/11
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
"Web-based Interface for Environmental Niche Modelling" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/09/14 - 2019/06/14
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/03/01 - 2022/09/30 Researcher (Research) Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre - Madeira (MARE-Madeira), Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2022/02/28 Researcher (Research) Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
2020/03/01 - 2020/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
2019/07/15 - 2020/02/14 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/10/01 - 2026/09/30 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Pipelines for Aquatic Environment Concerns
2022.09961.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal

Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre - Madeira (MARE-Madeira), Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2022 - 2022/09/30 INTERWHALE - Advancing Interactive Technology for Responsible Whale-Watching
PTDC/CCI-COM/0450/2020
Research Fellow
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal

Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
Ongoing
2020/03/01 - 2020/12/31 CleanAtlantic
EAPA_46/2016
Research Fellow
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Concluded
2019/07/15 - 2020/02/14 MITIExcell
M1420-01-0145-FEDER-000002
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Parretti, Paola; Ferrario Jasmine; Marchini, Agnese; Andrea Z Botelho; Patrício Ramalhosa; Costa, Ana Cristina; João Gama Monteiro; et al. "LEVERAGING STAKEHOLDER EXPERTISE TO ENHANCE MARINE NIS MANAGEMENT". 2024.
Conference paper
  1. Buzinkai M; Radeta, Marko; Rodrigues C; Silva F; Freitas, Rúben; Chebaane, Sahar; Parretti, Paola; et al. "Dive Reporter: Mobile app to collect data from recreational scuba divers in marine biodiversity assessment". Paper presented in international symposium on marine sciences, 2022.
  2. Freitas, Rúben. "INTERAQUATICA - Designing Interactive Aquatic Experiences with Geodesic Domes In-the-Wild". 2020.
    10.1145/3391614.3399395
Conference poster
  1. González, Carlos; Álvarez, Soledad; Ramalhosa, Patrício; Almeida, Sílvia; Freitas, Rúben; Fernandez, Marc; Canning-Clode, João; Órfão, Inês; Rocha, Ricardo. "Endangered European eel Anguilla anguilla and a game fish in insular ecosystems of Madeira". Paper presented in Neobiota, 2024.
  2. Radeta, Marko; Fernandez, Marc; Alves, Filipe; Dinis, Ana; Prieto, Rui; Dellinger, Thomas; Neves, Silvana; 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; Ruben Freitas; Claudio Rodrigues; Agustin Zuniga; Ngoc Thi Nguyen; Huber Flores; Petteri Nurmi. "Man and the Machine: Effects of AI-assisted Human Labeling on Interactive Annotation of Real-time Video Streams". ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2024): https://doi.org/10.1145/3649457.
    10.1145/3649457
  2. Inês Órfão; Soledad Álvarez; Patrício Ramalhosa; Carlos González; Cristiano Vieira; Silvia Almeida; Paola Parretti; et al. "Searching for the critically endangered European eel in oceanic islands: A pioneer study in the freshwater systems of Madeira, Macaronesia". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4106.
    10.1002/aqc.4106
  3. 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
  4. Silvia Almeida; Marko Radeta; Tomoya Kataoka; João Canning-Clode; Miguel Pessanha Pais; Freitas, Rúben; Joao Monteiro. "Designing Unmanned Aerial Survey Monitoring Program to Assess Floating Litter Contamination". Remote Sensing 15 1 (2022): 84-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15010084.
    10.3390/rs15010084
Magazine article
  1. Freitas, Rúben. "Deep Learning and the Oceans. Computer", IEEE Computer Society, 2022
Newspaper article
  1. Freitas, Rúben. "A New Signal of Tropicalization in the Northeast Atlantic: The Spread of the Spotfin Burrfish Chilomycterus reticulatus in Madeira Archipelago and Its Invasion Risk", Diversity, 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d13120639.
    10.3390/d13120639
  2. Freitas, Rúben. "Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment in Phobias: a Systematic Review", Psychiatric Quarterly, 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-021-09935-6.
    10.1007/s11126-021-09935-6
Preprint
  1. Freitas, Rúben; Marko Radeta; João Gama Monteiro; Francesca Gizzi; Susanne Schäfer; Paola Parretti; Cláudio Rodrigues. "Dive Reporter - Mobile App for Counting Underwater Marine Biodiversity". 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.166516587.77115447/v1.
    10.22541/au.166516587.77115447/v1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Freitas, Rúben. "Web-based interface for environmental niche modelling". Master, Universidade da Madeira, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3980.

Other

Other output
  1. Dive Reporter Application. Tablet application designed for scuba divers and dive operators to report species during post-dive surveys. The app collects abundance/scarcity of pre-established marine taxa and asks divers to report abundance using a categorical semi-quantitative scale.. 2021. Marko Radeta; João Gama Monteiro; Rodrigues Carlos; Freitas, Rúben; Gizzi, Francesca; Schäfer, Susanne; Parretti, Paola. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tigerwhale.dive.
Physical object
  1. Abreu, Pedro; Marko Radeta; Freitas, Rúben; Jocelyne Teles. "ARDome Dome Turtle". 2022. Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Ilha da Madeira.
Software
  1. Marko Radeta; Freitas, Rúben; Abreu, Pedro; Louis Michael. "ARDome App - Turtle". Android. Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação. 2021.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/06/01 - 2023/06/30 Estágio Profissional 12º ano. Curso de Educação e Formação Técnico/a de Informática - Sistemas Escola Secundária.
Supervisor
 Curso de Educação e Formação Técnico/a de Informática - Sistemas (Other)
Escola Secundária Jaime Moniz, Portugal
2023/04/01 - 2023/06/30 Estágio Profissional 12º ano. Curso Profissional de Gestão Informática.
Co-supervisor
 Curso Profissional de Gestão Informática (Other)
Escola Secundária de Francisco Franco, Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/06/30 Estágio do Curso de Educação e Formação de Técnico de Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos da Escola Secundária Jaime Moniz
Supervisor
 Educação e Formação de Técnico de Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos (Other)
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/10/06 - 2025/10/09 The International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (ICMB) is an international forum where scientists and policy makers from around the world meet to review current challenges in the global management of invasive marine organisms and to share new developments in science and policy. (2025/10/06 - 2025/10/09)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente Pólo da Madeira, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/16 - 2024/04/16 Inteligência Artificial aplicada em ambientes aquáticos
Conference
 Orador Jornadas FCCN
Fundacao de Computacao Cientifica Nacional, Portugal
2021/07/27 - 2021/07/30 Create neural networks in scikit-learn, TensorFlow, image processing, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTMs) networks.
Workshop
 Madeira International Workshop in Machine Learning
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2019/09/07 - 2019/09/07 Introduction to Machine Learning (ML).
Workshop
 A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning
Google Developers Group Madeira, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/05/22 - Current Conselho Geral da Universidade da Madeira Membro suplente
2022 - Current Serviço de educação da ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação Orador
Distinctions

Award

2023 Vencedor SIRESP Desafio Inovação
SIRESP - Sistema Integrado de Redes de Emergência e Segurança , Portugal
2022 Prémio de Mérito para melhor diplomado
Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal

Universidade da Madeira, Portugal