Chief Operations Officer

Short Bio

Master in Electrical and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), he is a researcher at the Communications Theory and Pattern Recognition Group (TCRP) of the Lisbon's pole of Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Currently he pursuits his PhD under the supervision of Professor Ana Fred; his main interest areas include biosignal research and system engineering.

Degrees

2007 MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico

2004 BSc in Computer Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

2002 Degree in Computer Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Projects

2005-2007 HiMotion: HCI and Electrophysiological Signal Acquisition. Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)

Publications

Thesis
Hugo Silva. "Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition Systems", Instituto Superior Técnico, 2007

Book Chapters
Hugo Silva e Ana Fred. "Feature Subspace Ensembles: A Parallel Classifier Combination Scheme using Feature Selection", in 7th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, 2007

Hugo Silva, Hugo Gamboa, e Ana Fred. "One Lead ECG Based Human Identification with Feature Subspace Ensembles", in 5th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, 2007

Papers in Conferences
Hugo Silva, Gonçalo Martins, Susana Palma, Pedro Mil-Homens e Maria Valamatos; "An Automated Athlete Performance Evaluation System. From theory to practice", in Biodevices Proceedings, 2009

Hugo Silva, Gonçalo Martins, Pedro Mil-Homens e Maria Valamatos. "Athletic Performance Evaluation System", in Proceedings of ECSS2008, Portugal, 2008

Hugo Silva, Hugo Gamboa, Filipe Silva e Vítor Viegas. "Automatic Fall Detection and Alert System: A Compact GPS/GSM Enabled Unit Based on Accelerometry", in Biodevices Proceedings, 2008

Hugo Gamboa, Hugo Silva, Susana Palma e Pedro Mil-Homens. "Vertical Jump Flight Time Measurement: A New Method Based on Acceleration Signals", in Proceedings of ECSS2007, Finland, 2007

Hugo Silva, Hugo Gamboa e Ana Fred. "Applicability of Lead V2 ECG Measurements in Biometrics", em Med-e-Tel Proceedings, 2007

Hugo Silva, Hugo Gamboa, Vítor Viegas e Ana Fred. “Wireless Physiologic Data Acquisition Platform”, in Proc. ConfTele 2005, 2005

Contacts

Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva
Av. 5 de Outubro, nº 70 - 6º
1050-059 Lisbon
Portugal
M:+351 961 572 690
T: +351 211 956 542
T: +351 211 956 546
F: +351 211 956 531
E: hsilva<at>plux<dot>info