Pedro M. Ferreira

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Faculty

• Email: pmf@ciencias.ulisboa.pt
• Homepage: http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~pferreira/

Projects

Current projects

• SATO (Self Assessment Towards Optimization of Building Energy)
• ADMORPH (Towards Adaptively Morphing Embedded Systems)
• AQUAMON (Dependable Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks in Water Environments)
• REDBOOK (Robust hardwarE-based Defences against Buffer Overflows and Other cybersecurity attacKs)
• Xivt (eXcellence In Variant Testing)

Past projects

• RE:DY (re:dy analytics challenge: dynamic set-poit)
• DiSIEM (Diversity-enhancements for Security Information and Event Management)
• SEGRID (Security for smart Electricity GRIDs)

Student supervision

Concluded

• André Gil, “Platform architecture and data management for cloud-based buildings energy self-assessment and optimization”, Master’s thesis, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Jan. 2022.

• Carlos Nascimento, “Evaluation of WSN Technology for Dependable Monitoring in Water Environments”, Master’s thesis, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Nov. 2019.

• André Correia, “Aprendizagem automática em larga escala nas redes sociais para a descoberta de ameaças de segurança”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Segurança Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Jul. 2016.

• António Lima, “Advanced persistent threats”, Master’s thesis, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 2015.

Ongoing

• Samaneh Shafee (PhD student)
• Adriano Mão de Ferro (PhD student)
• Žygimantas Jasiūnas (PhD student)
• Miracle Aniakor (PhD student)
• Fernando Alves (PhD student)
• Allan Espíndola (PhD student)
• Nuno Dionísio (PhD student)
• Vasco Ferreira (MSc student)
• Frederico Apolónia (MSc student)
• João Silva (MSc student)
• João Valente (MSc student)
• Gonçalo Reis (MSc student)
• Alexandre Nascimento (MSc student)
• André Gil (MSc student)

Publications

• Fernando Alves, Aurélien Bettini, Pedro M. Ferreira, Alysson Bessani, “Processing Tweets for Cybersecurity Threat Awareness”, Information Systems, vol. 95, Jan. 2021.

• Carlos Nascimento, António Casimiro, Pedro M. Ferreira, “A Methodology to Automate the Selection of LPWA Technologies in WSN Applications”, in Simpósio de Informática (INFORUM), Guimarães, Portugal, Sept. 2019.

• António Casimiro, José Cecílio, Pedro M. Ferreira, Anabela Oliveira, Paula Freire, Marta Rodrigues, Luís Almeida, “AQUAMON – A dependable Monitoring Platform based on Wireless Sensor Networks for Water Environments”, in Safecomp 2019 Fast Abstract, Turku, Finland, Sept. 2019.

• André Correia, Pedro M. Ferreira, Alysson Bessani, “Descoberta de Ameaças de Segurança através do Twitter”, in Proceedings of Inforum'2016, Simpósio de Informática, Lisboa, Portugal, Sept. 2016.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, Helder Duarte, Sergio Silva, Maria G. Ruano, “Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Network Designed for Energy Saving in HVAC Systems”, in ICWN'16 - The 15th International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Aug. 2016, pp. 36–42.

• Pedro M. Ferreira, “Unsupervised Entropy-Based Selection of Data Sets for Improved Model Fitting”, in 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (World Congress on Computational Intelligence), Vancouver, Canada, Jul. 2016, pp. 3330–3337.

• Ruano A., Pesteh S., Silva S., Duarte H., Mestre G., Pedro M. Ferreira, Khosravani H., Horta R., “PVM-based intelligent predictive control of HVAC systems”, in 4th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences, Reims, France, Jun. 2016, pp. 371–376.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Shabnam Pesteh, Sergio Silva, Helder Duarte, Gonçalo Mestre, Pedro M. Ferreira, Hamid R. Khosravani, Ricardo Horta, “The IMBPC HVAC system: A complete MBPC solution for existing HVAC systems”, Enegy and Buildings, vol. 120, pp. 145–158, May 2016.

• Hamid R. Khosravani, Maria del Mar Castilla, Antonio E. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, “A Comparison of Energy Consumption Prediction Models Based on Neural Networks of a Bioclimatic Building”, Energies, vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 2016.

• Khosravani H.R., Ruano A.E., Pedro M. Ferreira, “A convex hull-based data selection method for data driven models”, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 47, pp. 515–533, 2016.

• Hamid R. Khosravani, Antonio E. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, “A Randomized Approximation Convex Hull Algorithm for High Dimensions”, in 2nd IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computer Intelligence and Telematics CESCIT 2015, Maribor, Slovenia, Jun. 2015, pp. 123–128.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Gonçalo Mestre, Helder Duarte, Sergio Silva, Shabnam Pesteh, Hamid R. Khosravani, Pedro M. Ferreira, Ricardo Horta, “A neural-network based intelligent weather station”, in 2015 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP) Proceedings, Siena, Italy, May 2015.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Sergio Silva, Shabnam Pesteh, Pedro M. Ferreira, Helder Duarte, Gonçalo Mestre, Hamid R. Khosravani, Ricardo Horta, “Improving a neural networks based HVAC predictive control approach”, in 2015 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP) Proceedings, Siena, Italy, May 2015.

• Gonçalo Mestre, Antonio E. Ruano, Helder Duarte, Sergio Silva, Hamid R. Khosravani, Shabnam Pesteh, Pedro M. Ferreira, Ricardo Horta, “An Intelligent Weather Station”, Sensors, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 31005–31022, 2015.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Guilherme Madureira, Ozias Barros, Hamid R. Khosravani, Maria G. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, “Seismic detection using support vector machines”, Neurocomputing, vol. 135, pp. 273–283, Jul. 2014.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, “Neural Network based HVAC Predictive Control”, in 19th IFAC World Congress Proceedings, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014, pp. 3617–3622.

• Hamid R. Khosravani, Antonio E. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, “A simple algorithm for convex hull determination in high dimensions”, in 2013 IEEE 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing, Funchal, Portugal, Sept. 2013, pp. 109–114.

• Antonio E. Ruano, Guilherme Madureira, Ozias Barros, Hamid R. Khosravani, Maria G. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, “A Support Vector Machine Seismic Detector for Early-Warning Applications”, in 3rd IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science ICONS 2013, vol. 46, no. 20, Chengdu, China, 2013, pp. 405–410.

• Pedro M. Ferreira, Isaura D. Cuambe, Antonio E. Ruano, Rui Pestana, “Forecasting the Portuguese Electricity Consumption using Least-Squares Support Vector Machines”, in 3rd IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science ICONS 2013, vol. 46, no. 20, Chengdu, China, 2013, pp. 411–416.

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Faculty members	Alan Oliveira, Alysson Bessani, Ana Respício, António Casimiro, Bernardo Ferreira, Ibéria Medeiros, José Cecílio, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Pedro M. Ferreira, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo
Post-doc researchers	David Matos
PhD students	Adriano Mão de Ferro, AdrianoSerckumecka, Allan Espíndola, Ana Fidalgo, Carlos Mão de Ferro, Fernando Alves, Joel Samper, Miracle Aniakor, Nuno Dionísio, Paulo Antunes, Regivaldo Costa, Robin Vassantlal, Rohit Kumar, Samaneh Shafee, Žygimantas Jasiūnas
Hired researchers	(none)
MSc students	Alexandre Nascimento, André Gil, Bruno Matos, David Silva, Diogo Avelãs, Diogo Duarte, Diogo Pires, Diogo Ferreira, Frederico Apolónia, Gonçalo Reis, Inês Sousa, João Loureiro, João Queimado, João Silva, João Valente, Lívio Rodrigues, Miguel Oliveira, Pedro Alves, Pedro Rosa, Rafael Ramires … further results
Undergraduate students	(none)
Management	(none)