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Experienced control engineer and software developer with a demonstrated history of working in advanced control methodologies in industrial environment. Skilled in Research and Development (R&D), Process Optimization and Process Control using off-the-shelf equipment or developing custom made solutions for clients. Always takes in consideration a cost/benefit analysis for the best approach. Strong information technology professional with a Master's degree focused in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universidade de Coimbra and is used to work with scholars in order to introduce new technologies in the market. Master degree in electrical and computer engineering- automation specialization, from the University of Coimbra. He is Co-Manager and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ONCONTROL TECHNOLOGIES LDA. He has published 16 articles. He participates and/or has participated as Principal Investigator in 15 projects.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Sousa

Citation names

  • Sousa, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C415-3E38-8419
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1425-156X
Education
Degree Classification
1999 - 2005
Concluded
 Master degree in electrical and computer engineering- automation specialization (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2005 - 2007 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - Current Co-Manager and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ONCONTROL TECHNOLOGIES LDA, Portugal
2013 - 2015 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Acontrol – Automação e Controle Industrial, Lda, Portugal
2007 - 2013 Researcher and R&D Responsible Acontrol – Automação e Controle Industrial, Lda, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - 2026 PRODUTECH R3
Projeto n.º 6979
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2020 - 2024 Surefit - Environmentally friendly domestic buildings
Grant agreement ID: 894511
Principal investigator
Horizon 2020
2021/03 - 2023/07 iProMo - Intelligent Systems for Grinding Process Control
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-069730
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2021/03 - 2023/07 InGestAlgae - Intelligent Platform for Microalgae Production Management
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-046983
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2021/03 - 2023/07 iProMo - Intelligent Systems for Grinding Process Control
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-069730
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2020 - 2023 PRODUTECH4S&C - PRODUTECH SUSTENTÁVEL & CIRCULAR
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046102
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2018 - 2023 HYDROUSA - Demonstration of water loops with innovative regenerative business models for the Mediterranean region
Grant agreement ID: 776643
Principal investigator
Horizon 2020
2018/11 - 2020/10 SIICEI - Intelligent System for Identification of Electrical Loads in Industrial Equipment
SIICEI/2017/33338
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2016 - 2020 MIDES - microbial desalination for low energy drinking water
Grant agreement ID: 685793
Principal investigator
Horizon 2020
2017 - 2018 SHIP - Solar Heating for Industrial Process
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017857
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2013 - 2015 MFC4SLUDGE - Microbial fuel cell technologies for combined wastewater sludge treatment and energy production
Grant Agreement N.605893
Principal investigator
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
2013 - 2015 MFC4SLUDGE - Microbial fuel cell technologies for combined wastewater sludge treatment and energy production
Grant Agreement N.605893
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
2012/01 - 2014/12 SCIAD - Self-Learning Industrial Control Systems Through Process Data
SCIAD/2011/21531
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2011 - 2014 PRODUTECH-PSI - “NOVOS PRODUTOS E SERVIÇOS PARA A INDÚSTRIA TRANSFORMADORA”,
ADI project number 13849
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2011/11 - 2013/10 FAir-Control - Factory Air Pollution Control
E!6498
Principal investigator
Eurostars
2009/04 - 2012/03 SInCACI - Intelligent Systems for Industrial Control, Acquisition and Communication
SInCACI/2009/003120
Principal investigator
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2008 - 2011 Project of Creation of the Research & Development Division of Acontrol
CENTRO-07-0202-FEDER-002502
Principal investigator
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Erhard Perz; Fatima Dargam; Stefan Bergmann; Ekaterina Rodionova; Sousa, Pedro; Francisco Alexandre A. Souza; Tiago Matias. "Simulation and Control Systems in MIDES". In Microbial Desalination Cells for Low Energy Drinking Water. IWA Publishing, 2021.
  2. Dargam, Fatima; Perz, Erhard; Bergmann, Stefan; Rodionova, Ekaterina; Sousa, Pedro; Souza, Francisco Alexandre A.; Matias, Tiago; et al. "Supporting Operational Decisions on Desalination Plants from Process Modelling and Simulation to Monitoring and Automated Control with Machine Learning". In Decision Support Systems X: Cognitive Decision Support Systems and Technologies, 150-164. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-46224-6_12
  3. Araújo, Rui; Nunes, Urbano; Oliveira, Luciano; Sousa, Pedro; Peixoto, Paulo. "Support Vector Machines and Features for Environment Perception in Mobile Robotics". In Studies in Computational Intelligence, 219-250. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
    10.1007/978-3-540-79474-5_11
Conference paper
  1. Leiria, Joana; Salles, Rodrigo; Mendes, Jérôme; Sousa, Pedro. "Soft Sensors for Industrial Applications: Comparison of Variables Selection Methods and Regression Models". Paper presented in International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), Rome, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Alves, Jorge; Sousa, Pedro; Matos, Bárbara; Mendes, Jérôme; Souza, Francisco; Matias, Tiago. "Modular Cyber-Physical System for Smart Industry: a case study on energy load disaggregation". Paper presented in International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), Rome, 2023.
    Accepted
  3. Alves, Jorge; Sousa, Pedro; Serrano, Pedro; Mendes, Jérôme. "Adaptable monitoring and control platform for residential environments". Paper presented in Proc. of The 19th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET 2022), Istanbul, 2022.
    Published
  4. Fatima Dargam; Erhard Perz; Stefan Bergmann; Ekaterina Rodionova; Sousa, Pedro; Francisco Alexandre A. Souza; Tiago Matias; et al. "Supporting Operational Decisions on Desalination Plants from Process Modelling and Simulation to Monitoring and Automated Control with Machine Learning". Paper presented in In International Conference on Decision Support System Technology 2020, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-46224-6
  5. Vasilaki, V; Matias, T; Angadi, VC; Sousa, Pedro; Mousavi, A; Katsou, E. "Prediction of wastewater N2O emissions using artificial Neural Networks". Paper presented in 6th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Naxos Island, 2018.
  6. Danishvar, Morad; Mousavi, Ali; Sousa, Pedro; Araujo, Rui. "Event-clustering for real-time data modeling". Paper presented in In Proc. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2013.
    10.1109/coase.2013.6653911
  7. Soares, Symone; Araujo, Rui; Sousa, Pedro; Souza, Francisco. "Design and application of Soft Sensor using Ensemble Methods". Paper presented in Proc. 16th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2011), 2011.
    Published • 10.1109/etfa.2011.6059061
  8. Jérôme Mendes; Rui Alexandre de Matos Araújo; Sousa, Pedro; Filipe Apóstolo; Luís Alves. "Fuzzy control architecture for industrial systems". Paper presented in In Proc. 9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (CONTROLO 2010), 2010.
  9. Sousa, Pedro; Araujo, Rui; Nunes, Urbano; Alves, Luis; Lopes, Ana C.. "Real-time architecture for mobile assistant robots". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Patras, 2007.
    10.1109/efta.2007.4416888
  10. Sousa, Pedro; Araujo, Rui; Nunes, Urbano. "Real-Time Labeling of Places using Support Vector Machines". Paper presented in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Vigo, 2007.
    10.1109/isie.2007.4374918
Journal article
  1. Dargam, Fatima C.C.; Perz, Erhard; Bergmann, Stefan; Rodionova, Ekaterina; Sousa, Pedro; Souza, Francisco Alexandre A.; Matias, Tiago; et al. "Operational Decision-Making on Desalination Plants". International Journal of Decision Support System Technology 15 2 (2022): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdsst.315639.
    10.4018/ijdsst.315639
  2. Gonçalves, Manuel; Sousa, Pedro; Mendes, Jérôme; Danishvar, Morad; Mousavi, Alireza. "Real-Time Event-Driven Learning in Highly Volatile Systems: A Case for Embedded Machine Learning for SCADA Systems". IEEE Access 10 (2022): 50794-50806.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3173376
  3. Danishvar, Morad; Danishvar, Sebelan; Souza, Francisco; Sousa, Pedro; Mousavi, Alireza. "Coarse Return Prediction in a Cement Industry’s Closed Grinding Circuit System through a Fully Connected Deep Neural Network (FCDNN) Model". Applied Sciences 11 4 (2021): 1361. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11041361.
    10.3390/app11041361
  4. Mendes, Jérôme; Araújo, Rui; Sousa, Pedro; Apóstolo, Filipe; Alves, Luís. "An architecture for adaptive fuzzy control in industrial environments". Computers in Industry 62 3 (2011): 364-373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2010.11.001.
    10.1016/j.compind.2010.11.001