Brief Curriculum

In this page you may find a brief curriculum comprising my involvement in conferences and committees, my profissional situation, my academic degrees and complementary courses.

Teaching Activity

Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto, since December 1993. I have been teaching undergraduate classes in Digital Systems, Electronics and Power Electronics, and postgraduate classes in Computer Architecture, Digital Systems Design and Digital Systems Testing. Tutor of several PhD and Master students in the areas of Digital Hardware Design, Power Electronics, Design & Test and Remote Experimentation Labs for electronics teaching.

Visiting Professor at Fakultet for teknologi og maritime fag (Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences), University College of Southeast Norway, since September 2014. I have been teaching graduate classes in Hardware/Software Co-Design of Embedded Systems and tutoring Master students.

Enseignant Vacataire at Faculté des Sciences & Techniques, Université de Limoges, since September 2014. I have been teaching undergraduate classes in Digital Systems at the L3-EOLES course (http://l3-eoles.unilim.fr/?lang=en).

Academic Degrees

PhD in 2003 in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, with the thesis entitled "A Test Methodology for FPGAs Integrated in Reconfigurable Hardware Systems".

MSc in 1995 in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, with the thesis entitled "Voice-output Communication Aids for People with Cerebral Palsy" (abstract).

BSc degree in 1992 in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.

Complementary courses

"System Integration: From Transistor Design to Large Scale Integrated Circuits", by Prof. Kurt Hoffman, from the Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany, a 30th hour course that took place in Quimonda, Vila do Conde, Portugal, between 7 and 11 of May, 2007.

"Digital Design with FPGAs", by Edgard Garcia from Multi Video Designs and Xilinx, Inc., as part of the Xilinx University Program, held at Comité National de Formation en Microélectronique do Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France, August 2002.

"Design for Testability Techniques: A Comparative Analysis" by Prof. Miron Abramovici from Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, as part of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Educational Program (TTEP), held at Cancun, Mexico, February 11, 2001.

"VHDL - AMS" by Prof. Oystein Ra from the Buskerud University College of Norway, as part of the project INSIGHT II, European Program Leonardo Da Vinci, held at School of Engineering - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal, June 12, 2000.

"Packaging and Production for High Speed Digital Electronics", by Prof. Per Øhlckers from the University of Oslo, as part of the project INSIGHT II, European Program Leonardo Da Vinci, held at Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto, Portugal, October 6, 1999.

"Principles of Testable Logic Design, including Boundary Scan" by Dr. R. G. Bennetts from Bennetts Associates, held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1993.

"Integration of Design and Test: a Management Perspective" by Dr. R. G. Bennetts from Bennetts Associates, held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1993.