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We also have a variable number of visiting scientists and collaborators working with us. The former member section has previous group members.

António Falcão - Research and Development Team
Short Bio

António J. Falcão is a project manager and research engineer at the CA3 Computational Intelligence Research Group at Uninova (New Technologies Research Institute) working on projects for the European Space Agency since 2002. He holds a Licenciatura in Computer Science Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon, and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science Engineering from the same University.

He is also a Certified Scrum Master, as well as having several specific training courses, including Agile Requirements Management, Agile Estimation and Planning. He also concluded Software Engineering and Quality Assurance training courses, both organised by the European Space Agency.

From 2000 to 2002, he worked at ISQ at the Laboratory for Non-Destructive Testing developing a platform for visualisation and analysis of data from ultra-sonic probes for fault detection in pipeline welding using non-destructive inspection (NDI) methods.

Research Interests

In between project management tasks, I do some research where my interests are in automated analysis of large non-categorical time series datasets. I'm looking at automatic detection of correlations and patterns within these datasets, as well as focussing on the topic of causality between these non-categorical data. I have been working with data from the Space Weather domain.

This involves multi-disciplinary research, which includes areas such as Systems Analysis and Design (possibly Distributed), Software Engineering and Soft Computing. Scalability is a significant issue that must be taken into account. Reuse and integration are also fundamental and are a focus point of my research.

Current Projects
Past Projects
  • VA-4D, Project Manager
  • LuLaB, Research Engineer
  • KD-LADS, Research Engine
  • BrainMap, Technical Manager of Uninova activities
  • SEISOP, Project Manager for Uninova activities
  • CERTAIN, Project Manager for Uninova activities
  • SESS, Research Engineer
  • SEIS, Software Developer
  • CESADS, Knowledge Engineer and Software Developer
  • EO-KES, Knowledge Engineer
  • FL-MCP, Software Developer
Publications
  • Ricardo Raminhos, António Falcão, Luís Correia, “CESADS – Centralised ESTRACK Status and Diagnostic System”, World Automation Congress (WAC) – Special Session on “Soft Computing in Space Applications”, Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
  • A. Pereira, R.A. Ribeiro, P.A. Sousa, M. Pantoquilho, P. Bravo, A. Falcão, S. D'Elia, “An Ontology to Support Knowledge Enabled Services on Earth Observation”, ESA-EUSC Conference, Madrid, Spain, 2004.
  • A. Falcão, Q. Ho, P. Lopes, B. Malamud, R. Ribeiro and M. Jern, “Innovative Visualization Techniques applied to a Flood Scenario”, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-12720, EGU General Assembly 2013.
  • Luís Teixeira, Rita A. Ribeiro, Gabriel Lopes, António Falcão, Ricardo Raminhos, “BrainMap - A Navigation Support System in a Tourism Case Study”. 4th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2013, Technological Innovation for the Internet of Things. L.M. Camarinha, S. Tomic, P. Graça (Eds). Springer, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, 2013, pp. 99–106.
  • L. Teixeira, R. Ribeiro, G. Lopes, A. Falcão, R. Raminhos, “BrainMap Preliminary studies for a Navigation Support System to Explore Graphs of Document Correlations”, poster session INFORUM2012, Monte da Caparica, Portugal, 2012.
  • Silva, J.; Lopes, G. & Falcão, A. Cao, L. & Yu, P. S. (Eds.), “Mining Causality from Non-categorical Numerical Data”, book chapter in Behaviour Computing, 215-227, Springer, London, 2012.
  • Falcão, A., Silva, J., Dorotovic(, I., “TSCorr: a tool for time-series correlation”, Poster at JENAM, The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science. Lisbon, Portugal : s.n., 6-10 September, 2010.
  • E. Parrilla, M. Enriquez, S. Negrin, A. Donati, H. Oliveira, A. Gutierrez, J. Pimentão, S. Ibermia, A. Falcão, F. di Marco, “SEISOP, a System enabling Space Weather Services for Space Missions”, SpaceOps2010, Huntsville, USA, 2010
  • A. Donati, F. di Marco, M. Pantoquilho, S. Negrin, J. Pimentão, D. Ponz, A. Falcão, S. Esteve, “Space Environment Information System to Support Satellite Operations”, International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 2009
  • R. Raminhos, A. Falcão, L. Correia, “CESADS – Centralised ESTRACK Status and Diagnostic System”, World Automation Congress (WAC) – Special Session on “Soft Computing in Space Applications”, Budapest, Hungary, 2006.
  • A. Pereira, R.A. Ribeiro, P.A. Sousa, M. Pantoquilho, P. Bravo, A. Falcão, S. D'Elia, “An Ontology to Support Knowledge Enabled Services on Earth Observation”, ESA-EUSC Conference, 2004, Madrid.

     

Project Manager,
Research Engineer

ajf@uninova.pt

Edifício CTS/UNINOVA, Sala 1.4
+351 21 294 96 25 (direct)
+351 21 294 85 27/8/9 (ext. 13746)



Apoio FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia no âmbito da Unidade de Investigação CTS - Centro de Tecnologia e Sistemas, referência UIDB/00066/2020