Diogo Peralta Cordeiro

Engineering ownership. Led funded open-source platform development, coordinated contributors, made architectural decisions, and maintained a public-facing technical roadmap.

Research-to-system translation. Worked across dependable computing, robotics, machine perception and spatial interaction, keeping practical deployment constraints in view.

Execution discipline. I structure projects around clear goals, written decisions, risks, interfaces and incremental delivery.

Stakeholder fluency. I can communicate with engineers, researchers, students, institutional partners and non-technical decision-makers without losing technical precision.

Teaching practice. Delivered workshops and talks on Git, dependable computing, embedded systems and decentralised networks.

Pedagogy. Completed evidence-based undergraduate STEM teaching training and a Portuguese trainer certification, with a focus on active learning and practical technical competence.

Work posture. Comfortable with English-speaking, distributed and documentation-heavy environments. I am drawn to teams where the work means raising technical quality, reducing ambiguity and helping others do their best work.

Supervisor: Prof. João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa.

Research area: software-intensive interactive systems, machine perception, spatial/projection-based interaction, robotics-adjacent sensing and systems engineering.

Relevant activities:

• Supervisor of Porto Space Team.
• Member of the ANTAEUS CubeSat project context.
• Technical talks and workshops for engineering audiences.
• Research-to-deployment work connecting prototypes, users, evaluation and maintainable software.

180 ECTS, of which 54 ECTS in Mathematics.

Activities and societies:

• Member of EUGLOH's Joint Curricula Design work package and Student Board (2020-07-13 → 2021-07-30)
• Member of the Faculty of Sciences' Pedagogical Council (2019-11-05 → 2022-06-17)
• Freshers' teaching assistant for the Computer Science Department (2019-09-10 → 2021-07-30)
• Founding member of the Hackers at Porto student society (since 2017-11-01)

Key contents:

• Mathematics — numerical analysis, stochastic processes, operations research, linear algebra, analytic geometry, multivariable calculus, differential equations
• Computing theory — graphs, logic and proof, computability, complexity, reactive systems
• Computer systems — computer architecture, computer networking, operating systems
• Programming — compiler construction, advanced algorithms and data structures, multiprocessor programming
• Applications and professionalism — intelligent systems, interaction design, security, privacy, databases
• Electrical engineering — automatic control, digital signal processing

The course provides an understanding of society's challenges and the functions necessary for resilience in the face of events threatening safety and sustainability, and of approaches for contributing to societal resilience through disaster-risk management and climate-change adaptation for sustainable development in a changing world. It also forms a foundation for research in these areas.

Designed around critical thinking on societal safety and sustainability, it is structured in modules with lectures, seminars and role-play that illuminate central concepts, questions, challenges and functions for societal resilience, following case studies from countries with different conditions.

The course introduces the development process of an entrepreneurial project, the entrepreneurial mindset needed for that process, and the dynamics of teamwork — skills called for by a global society facing challenges that need new, creative solutions under uncertainty.

It concluded with a two-day hackathon in which teams delivered a solution to a challenge in Global Health. Out of six competing teams, ours was ranked best.

A training week introducing university students to the concurrent design of a CubeSat mission. Guided by ESA experts, students learn to use COMET (Concurrent Model-based Engineering Tool) and to identify design drivers; divided into teams, they first create a subsystem concept and then realise an identified mission concept, function tree and product tree using concurrent engineering.

Key topics:

• Introduction to concurrent engineering, systems engineering and requirements — Robin Biesbroek
• CubeSat missions and technologies — Camille Pirat
• CubeSat architectures — Ilja Skrypnyk
• Increasing RAMS for CubeSats — Silvana Radu

ANTAEUS, a prospective Fly Your Satellite! Portuguese team, attended this training week to deepen its knowledge of spacecraft design and project management.

Covered topics included: project management principles and COTS; legal aspects of CubeSat missions; communications and outreach; systems engineering principles; AIV and testing; introduction to MBSE; data-handling subsystem design and verification; flight-software development; EPS design and verification; structural, thermal and mechanisms design and verification; project management for CubeSats; AOCS design and verification; spacecraft operations; TT&C and ground segment; RAMS of CubeSats (FMEA, HSIA, FDIR); space-debris mitigation and trackability; and CubeSat mission analysis — delivered by ESA specialists including Alexander Kinnaird, Tomasz Szewczyk, Volkan Salma, Silvana Radu and David Evans.

A programme designed to prepare entrepreneurs for the challenges of creating and developing a new business project. Over three months, participants work with new tools, concepts, structures and people that help validate an idea in the market.

Covered topics included: business models; patents and protecting intellectual property; differentiation and strategy; pricing, marketing and selling; problem mapping; public communication; structuring a pitch; fundraising from venture capital; doing business with the USA; taxes; term sheets; and digital marketing.

Taught by professors Carlos Daniel Paulino and Giovani Loiola da Silva, and promoted jointly by the University of Porto's Mathematics Centre (CMUP) and the University of Lisbon's School of Engineering (IST-UL).

Topics: Bayes' theorem and the essence of Bayesian methodology; representation of a-priori information (non-informative and natural conjugate distributions); applications to problems with exact or asymptotic solutions (linear Gaussian models, categorical data); inference by stochastic simulation and traditional Monte Carlo; model evaluation, selection and comparison; MCMC methods and their implementation in OpenBUGS/JAGS; applications to practical problems across scientific fields.

A 36-hour course on the acquisition, processing and analysis of EEG signal, held at the Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology. Topics included introductions to EEG and ERP, ERP research design, principles of EEG data collection, signal processing and data extraction, statistical analysis of ERP data, and reproducibility and open-science practices in EEG/ERP research — taught by Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Fernando Barbosa, Tiago O. Paiva and colleagues.

Organised by the Research Centre for Systems and Technologies (SYSTEC) in collaboration with the ARISE associated laboratory, providing experience with applications of cyber-physical systems in robotics, energy, mobility, production systems and health.

Covered topics: introduction to drones; deep and machine learning; optimisation; path-following control for autonomous vehicles; optimisation in industrial settings; designing robotic solutions with freeware tools; and electric mobility case studies.

Topics and lecturers included: terminology and basic concepts in maritime robotics, and models, planning and control — João Tasso de Sousa (LSTS); sensors — Paulo Dias; vehicles — Maria Costa; underwater communications and multi-vehicle planning — José Pinto; the LSTS/OceanScan toolchain — Keyla Lima; AI in maritime robotics — Kanna Rajan (NTNU); ocean observation — researchers from PLOCAN, PROOCEANO, MaREI, CIIMAR and the MIT Media Lab; applications in archaeology — Filipe Castro (Texas A&M); mapping applications — Trygve Fossum (NTNU); the legal regime of maritime robotics — Eliana Silva Pereira (CIIMAR); and mechanical design — João Galante (LSTS).

Topics: biomedical data collection, signal processing and analysis; artificial intelligence and machine learning in natural-language processing, biological image analysis and gene-expression analysis; image-processing applications; from literature knowledge to mechanistic modelling; health data science and management; statistical decision making; and dissemination of scientific results.

Large-scale facilities offer unique opportunities to explore materials and living matter. This four-day intensive course on the SOLEIL synchrotron, the MAX IV synchrotron and the ELI-ALPS laser centre raised awareness of how such facilities contribute to the European research landscape, giving an in-depth overview of career opportunities, operations, techniques and biomedical and environmental applications, and closing with practical sessions on applying for beamtime allocation.

A comprehensive learning experience blending theoretical understanding through a lecture series with hands-on practical training in a capstone project, guided by subject-matter experts. The capstone solidifies the learned skills and fosters close collaboration with leading scientists in the GPM community.

Objectives: effective teaching strategies and the research that supports them; the value of learning through diversity and strategies to incorporate it in the classroom; and how to assess these pedagogical strategies and decide which to implement.

Credential ID F751769/2024. Final grade: 5 — Excellent.

Acquired competencies: analysing the context of intervention for a training programme; designing the programme; developing didactic and multimedia resources; planning learning activities; applying techniques of pedagogical interaction and group facilitation; managing diversity in the training context; using and managing collaborative and learning platforms; developing evaluation tools for training and learning outcomes; and assigning and reporting results.

An introduction to Earth observation (EO) for international development assistance and to Space for IDA, ESA's cooperation framework implemented in partnership with international financial institutions — a comprehensive overview of the impact of EO across sustainable-development contexts for decision-makers, policy-makers, educators and communicators.

Covered Six Sigma principles; tools for Define and Measure, Analyse, and Improve and Control; Six Sigma and the organisation (advanced); and the advanced Define/Measure, Analyse, and Improve/Control phases.

Covered the foundations of project management; project initiation; project planning; project execution; and Agile project management.

Covered leading teams (developing as a leader; building effective team cultures), designing and managing the organisation, and business and corporate strategy.

Covered why smart executives fail (common mistakes and warning signs); decision-making as a blend of art and science; superbosses — managing talent and leadership; and lessons on wisdom and personal leadership.

Web-accessibility auditing (Bronze and Silver seals).

Covered key learning principles such as the role of mental models and the importance of practice and feedback; fundamental elements of course design, including learning objectives and aligned assessment; and teaching strategies for fostering active learning and inclusive classroom environments.

Critical reflection on digital transformation and strategic institutional responses.

Tools and approaches for teaching and assessing core skills in the classroom.

How children learn through play and develop social and collaboration skills.

Satellite remote sensing for identifying and monitoring threats to heritage sites and landscapes.

Objectives: manage a software project for space and ground applications; understand the significance and procedures of the process; know what ESA expects; identify potential sources of project failure as early as possible; and bridge the system and software domains.

A five-hour training delivered jointly by the UT Austin Portugal Program, INESC TEC (through its Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems), the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences — Space for All Nations, the Porto School of Engineering (ISEP), the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, the Portuguese Space Agency (PT Space) and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD).

Held 2022-10-08 to 2022-12-05. Objectives: pedagogical preparation of a course; learning objectives and skills; teaching strategies for large classes; introduction to learning assessment; and higher-education pedagogy.

Held 2022-02-09 to 2022-06-03. The course develops critical and informed listening across historical moments and artistic expressions; explores musical practice and its social contexts, from classical-concert curatorship to community intervention; examines the mechanics of musical creation (composition, interpretation, production and dissemination); and treats critical involvement with music as personal and interpersonal development.

Credential ID B6703928. Scores: Reading 200 (grade A, C2); Use of English 201 (grade A, C2); Writing 190 (C1); Listening 193 (C1); Speaking 195 (C1).

Covered the modelling of quad-rotor drones (configurations, reference frames, block diagrams, dynamics); analysis of each subsystem in Scilab/Xcos, from rotor actuation to the dynamic and kinematic equations linking forces and moments to motion; and control of quad-rotor motion — common control solutions, stabilisation of vertical and angular motion, horizontal guidance, and approximations towards a more realistic simulator.

An experiential asynchronous course in which participants advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals, earning a pass in each of the five Open Source Leadership skills assessments and a post-programme reflective assessment: "How am I going to step up as a Global Citizen and advance my Sustainable Development Goal?".

Held April–May 2020. Topics: China and the Chinese language; Chinese cuisine; Chinese geography and tourist attractions; and the Chinese lifestyle.

A 24-hour contest of engineering applied to automation, instrumentation and control (2019-03-16 to 2019-03-18). With my team, I developed a Rube Goldberg machine whose purpose was to hoist a flag; we scored 18 out of 20, placing among the ten podium teams out of forty.

Held 2018-10-10 to 2018-11-07. Comprehensive training on patent basics, intellectual-property rights and the patenting process, including European Patent Office procedures, with sessions on novelty/inventiveness, claims, patent searching (Espacenet), developing an IP strategy and commercialising research results — delivered by Pedro Borges (EPO), Tiago Leitão, Luís Ferreira and André Fernandes.

DCE23, the Doctoral Congress in Engineering, was held on 15–16 June 2023 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. This hands-on workshop gave participants the fundamental concepts of version control and the features Git offers for code — or any text, including a thesis.

Topics: rsync, diff and patch; an overview of revision-control systems with briefings on RCS and Subversion; configuring Git and setting up GPG for signed commits; hands-on practice with many Git commands; tags; branching and merging; storage areas; a brief look at Git internals; and version-control etiquette.

A one-hour talk delivered twice in May 2023 — on the 4th at the Faculty of Engineering via Porto Space Team, and on the 17th at the Faculty of Sciences via NuCC-FCUP and Hackers at Porto.

Topics: model-driven development; introduction to real-time embedded systems (with emphasis on hard real time); functional, temporal and dependability requirements; execution management; introduction to reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS); architecture and components in space avionics; and safeguard mechanisms, with emphasis on redundancy.

A four-hour lecture in Spaceway's online and live course "Software & Data Engineering in Space". Topics: model-driven development; real-time modelling, scheduling and RTOS; execution management; reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS); software development methodologies; architecture and components; safeguard mechanisms; and memory management.

A one-hour talk using the ANTAEUS CubeSat as its main case study. Topics: execution management; RAMS; software development methodologies; architecture and components; electronic components; on-board buses and interfaces; determinism; and safeguard mechanisms.

A series of six thematic television documentaries addressing essential technological questions: cryptocurrencies and blockchain, social networks and the public space, artificial intelligence and privacy. I discussed the impact of algorithmic decision-making on the content we consume and the discussions we have.

A presentation of FEP-2100 — its context and how we created it. Distinguished as the Best Oral Communication in the Engineering area of this edition.

As a developer of the federated universe, I contributed to the first webinar of this event, in which representatives of the European Commission, the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Parliament discussed the possibilities of federation and how the European Commission could announce relevant events on the fediverse. Through two webinars and a workshop, NGI Zero and the ActivityPub community showcased to national and European administrations how the decentralised social-networking protocol ActivityPub can help European institutions retake their online presence.

A brief introduction and overview of an initiative started in 2011 that has been gaining popularity. The talk explored the principles and values of privacy, participation and diversity of this vibrant network, contrasting them with the selfish business practices of the non-neutral exchange platforms populating the rest of the Internet.

ActivityPub is a decentralised social-networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format: a client-to-server API for creating, updating and deleting content, and a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content. This Talks@DCC took a small tour through the history of the fediverse, the context in which ActivityPub was introduced, and the internals of its implementation — among other challenges in the software and network engineering of a federated social network — ending with the advantages of this kind of platform and the technical complications of building and maintaining one.

I presented a summary of the development and results of the Faculty of Sciences' mentoring programme at the first meeting of U.Porto's transversal programme of peer mentoring.

A three-hour workshop about automation science, complex systems, digital electronics, the Internet of Things, and how those relationships enable the making of robots — with a detailed practical component using sensors and actuators to illustrate the concepts.

My internship on parametric human-body models was distinguished as the best of the MCT category by the jury of the Summer@CTM 2022 internship programme.

“GNU social v3 and Unbound Actors” was distinguished as the best oral communication in the Engineering area.

Funding awarded through the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2021-02 to 2022-02) to lead the development of GNU social v3.

Our team ranked best among six in the two-day hackathon closing the Entrepreneurial Skills module.

Kult received IAPMEI's StartUP Voucher full grant (2020-06 to 2021-06) and a Grant for the Web flagship grant (2021-06 to 2021-12).

Research initiation grant supporting the robotics internship at LSTS, FEUP.

Scored 18/20 with my team, placing among the ten podium teams out of forty.