If you are an aspiring PhD or MSc student passionate about Data Privacy and Information Security, Data Intelligence, Intelligent Retail, Cyber-Physical Systems, Building Automation, Ambient Intelligence, or Energy Management, and you want to work on impactful research, feel free to contact me.

The thesis topics below may give a better idea about the exciting topics my students work on.

THE SURVIVAL GUIDE

If you are one of my students looking for the most recent version of the “Masters Students Survival Guide”, contact me and then I will e-mail the link.

CURRENT PhD STUDENTS 

  • João Almeida, ‘Blockchain-backed Trust of Model Driven Artefacts’ , Nova School of Science and Technology, co-advised with Vasco Amaral (In progress)

CURRENT MSc STUDENTS 

  • Rodrigo Pedro, ‘Shielding Smart Retail Sensor Data Processing with Trusted Execution Environments’, IST, Co-advised with Nuno Santos (In progress)
  • João Antunes, ‘Privacy-by-Design Techniques for Sensor Stream Processing’, IST, Co-advised with Nuno Santos (In progress)
  • Afonso Bate, ‘Auditable Data Provenance in Streaming Data Processing’, IST, Co-advised with Luís Veiga (In progress)
  • Vasco Simões, ‘Automatic Cryptographic Anonymisation of Human Features’, IST, Co-advised with João Garcia (In progress)
  • Nuno Daniel, ‘Optimisation of video acquisition in high-density camera networks with edge processing capabilities’, IST, (In progress)

FORMER MSc STUDENTS

The theses below are those that have been finished already.

  • Gonçalo Costa, ‘Evo DB – Bringing Evolutionary Database Design for Schema Editing Tools with a Version Control System’, IST, Jul, 2022, (Grade: 16/20)
  • Beatriz Neto, ‘BISEL: A Specialised language for data integration on infrastructure information models’, IST, Jun 2019 (Grade: 18/20)
  • Diana Ribeiro, ’A Recommender System to Assist the Semantic Enrichment of IFC models’, IST, Nov 2016 (Grade: 15/20)
  • Ricardo Sequeira, ‘Gateways in the Cloud: Integrating Devices in the Internet of Things’, IST, Nov 2016 (Grade: 18/20)
  • Ricardo Coelho, ‘A Normalized Systems: An Assessment of Evolvability Based on Metrics’, IST, Nov 2016 (Grade: 18/20)
  • Miguel Alves, ‘BIMSL: A Domain-Specific Language for Integrating Building Information Models with Sensor Data’, IST, Nov 2016 (Grade: 19/20) (Article Published)
  • António Zdelican, ‘An Energy Management Framework’, IST, Oct 2016, co-advised with Miguel M. Silva (Grade: 16/20)
  • João Pinho, ‘Cloud Energy Data Processing using the Storm Engine’, IST, June 2016 (Grade: 17/20)
  • Pedro M. Lopes, ‘3D Interaction with Intelligent Buildings’, IST, Nov 2016 (Grade: 17/20)
  • Bruno Rocha, ‘Low-cost Networked Luminary Controller for Sustainable Ambient Illumination’, IST, Nov 2015 (Grade: 16/20), co-advised with Alexandre Bernardino (DEEC/IST)
  • Alberto Viana, ‘ASL: A Domain-Specific Language for Alarm Processing the Building Energy Domain’, IST, Nov 2015 (Grade: 18/20)
  • José Cavalheiro, ‘A Multi-dimensional Model for Building Energy Management, IST, Nov 2015 (Grade: 20/20) (Article Published)
  • Jorge Miguel Coelho, ‘Fine-tuning HVAC operation through RFID and user feedback’, IST, Nov 2015, co-advised with Miguel Pardal (Grade: 15/20)
  • João Afonso Direita, ‘Distributed control of illumination in office-like spaces’, IST, Nov 2015, co-advised with Alexandre Bernardino (DEEC/IST) (Grade: 18/20)
  • Sofia Martins, ‘Benchmarking of Facilities Management indicators’, IST, co-advised with Inês F. Cohlen (DECivil/IST) June 2015 (Grade: 17/20)
  • João Taborda, ‘A Domain-Specific Language for Domotic Systems’, FCT/UNL, Dec 2015, co-advised with Vasco Amaral (Grade: 19/20)
  • Akash Manilal, ‘Analysis and Requirements Gathering of User Interfaces for BAS’, IST, Jan 2015 (Grade: 16/20) (Article Published)
  • Diogo Anjos, ‘Real-time Cloud Energy Data Acquisition and Processing’, IST, Nov 2015 (Grade: 19/20) (Article Published)
  • Renato Vieira, ‘Building Information Modelling for Building Control’, IST, Jun 2015 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • Cátia Moreira, ‘A DSL for querying Building Data Streams of Energy, Weather and Occupation Data’, FCT/UNL, Nov 2014, co-advised with Vasco Amaral FCT/UNL (Grade: 18/20)
  • Hugo Sequeira, ‘Industrial Energy Management in the Cloud’, IST, Nov 2014 (Grade: 19/20) (Article Published) 
  • João Santos, ‘Graphical Interfaces for User Behavior Transformation in the Energy Domain’, IST, Nov 2014 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • Jorge Reto, ‘Ambiente de Realidade Virtual para Visualização de Dados de Energia’, IST, Nov 2014 (Grade: 15/20)
  • Paulo Borges, ‘An Arduino-based Domotic System for the Internet-of-Things’, IST, Nov 2015 (Grade: 14/20)
  • Pedro Torres, ‘An Energy Audit database for IST’, IST, Nov 2014 (Grade: 14/20)
  • Rodolfo Santos, ‘IST SmartOffice’, IST, Nov 2014 (Grade: 17/20) (Article Published)
  • Rui Camacho, ‘Intelligent Actuation in Home and Building Automation Systems’, IST, Nov 2014 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • Pedro Domingues, ‘A Modular Software Architecture to Cope with Automation Hardware Heterogeneity’, IST, Jun 2015 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • [M30]João Araújo, ‘Virtual Reality for Lighting Simulation in Events’, IST, Jun 2014, co-advised with Alfredo Junior (Grade: 15/20)
  • Tiago Barbosa, ‘EnergyBrick: The smart ultra-low-cost energy meter for the IoT’, IST, Jun 2014 (Grade: 17/20)
  • Vitor Mansur, ‘Optimização da eficiência energética através da integração de sistemas de automação de edifícios com redes de sensores RFID’, IST, Jun 2014 (Grade: 17/20) (Article Published)
  • Pedro Antunes, ‘A Maturity Model for Energy Management, IST, Jun 2014, co-advised with Miguel M. Silva (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • André Lourenço, ‘Analyzing costs and profitability with process-based ABC’, IST, Jun 2013, co-advised with Miguel M. Silva (Grade: 19/20)
  • Tiago Cardoso, ‘Efficient Integration of Energy Data’, IST, Dec 2013 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • Luis Luciano, ‘A Data Warehouse for Energy Management’, IST, Dec 2013 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • Silvia Resendes, ‘Automatic Conflict Resolution in Building Automation Systems’, IST, Oct 2012 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • Tiago Castelo, ‘A 3D Interactive Environment for Automated Building Control’, IST, Nov 2012, co-advised with Alfredo Junior (Grade: 17/20) (Article Published)
  • João Aguiam, ‘Specifying the Behaviour of Building Automation Systems’, IST, September 2012 (Grade: 18/20) (Article Published)
  • André Nascimento, ‘A JDBC Driver Front-End for Web-Data’, IST, Nov 2011 (Grade: 14/20), co-advised with P. Calado
  • Daniel Santana, ‘Relational Web-Data Extraction’, IST, June 2012, co-advised with Pável Calado, (Grade: 16/20)
  • Anna Thanopoulu, ‘Implementing the TPC-H Benchmark’, University of Athens, Sep 2012, co-advised with Helena Galhardas (Grade: Graduated with Honors) (Article Published)
  • Sandra Milhais, ‘Estudo da Viabilidade de uma Benchmark ETL: Estudo da Viabilidade de uma Benchmark ETL’, IST, Nov 2010, co-advised with Helena Galhardas (Grade: 15/20)
  • André Gonçalves, ‘Metadata synchronization framework for the Data Fusion platform’, Faculty de Sciences of the University of Lisbon, 2003, co-advised with co-advised with Antónia Lopes (Grade: Graduated with Honors)
  • Alejandro Sartório, ‘Measuring cohesion and coupling of front-end Metadata’, Graduation Thesis, University of Rosário, 2002, Argentina