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On September 30 Ricardo Araújo successfully defended his Master’s Thesis entitled “Controller Design for Varactor Based 2-bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface”. Ricardo developed his master’s Thesis under the supervision of Luis Pessoa and Nuno Paulino. The Jury was composed of Doctor Hélio Mendes de Sousa Mendonça (PhD, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto), Doctor … Read more
Rafael Aguiar successfully defended his Master’s Thesis entitled “Indoor Localization using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” on July 9. The Jury was composed of Doctor Sérgio Reis Cunha (PhD, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto), Doctor Qi Luo (PhD, University of Hertfordshire), and Doctor Luís Manuel de Sousa Pessoa (PhD, Faculty of Engineering of the … Read more
Luis Pessoa has started a new position as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). Previously, Luis was an invited assistant professor at the FEUP, where he taught courses such as RF/microwave Engineering, Optical Communications, Electromagnetic Waves, and Principles of … Read more
Valentino Carneiro and Prof. Henrique Salgado participated in the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2024), held from June 16th to June 21st, 2024, in Washington, DC. Valentino entered the Student Design Competition with a 3D printed horn antenna in ABS and copper plating, with a gain of (16.5-18.1) dBi in the range of (26.5-40) GHz. … Read more
Luis Pessoa represented the ongoing research projects CONVERGE and TERRAMETA at EuCNC 2024, from 3-6 June, in Antwerp, Belgium. TERRAMETA, CONVERGE, SUPERIOT, and TIMES shared booth #16 where demos, posters, and videos showcased cutting-edge research and developments. Luis Pessoa co-organized the Workshop Strengthening EU-US Cooperation in Experimental Infrastructures Towards 6G, which attracted a significant audience. … Read more
This year, OET offers 4 internship topics, covering three Scientific Domains of INESC TEC: AI – Artificial intelligenceBIO – BioengineeringCOM – Communications “Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Multi-modal Perception” (AI)Supervisors: Francisco Manuel Ribeiro and Luís Manuel Pessoa “Comparative study of antenna characterisation systems from 30 to 300 GHz” (COM)Supervisor: Luis Pessoa “Sensing through NFC-enabled … Read more
Mariana Oliveira is a Master’s student in Physics Engineering at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), currently working on her thesis under the supervision of Luis Pessoa. Her research is part of the ongoing CONVERGE project, which focuses on developing a Radio Frequency (RF) sensing system for human activity recognition and … Read more
Rafael Aguiar got the paper “A Deep Learning Approach in RIS-based Indoor Localization” accepted at the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2024), co-authored by Nuno Paulino and Luís M. Pessoa. This research is part of the ongoing TERRAMETA project. This work focuses on the domain of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-based indoor localization. The paper … Read more
Luis Pessoa represented INESC TEC and the TERRAMETA project in a 6G industry panel at the Hannover Messe on April 23. This panel session was organized together with 6G-SHINE and TIMES 6G projects to discuss the future of 6G. The panel “Is Industry waiting for 6G?” addressed topics such as “Why are industries missing the … Read more
Nuno Paulino and Francisco Ribeiro presented a Vision-Assisted Communications Demonstrator at Mostra da U.Porto 2024, developed in the context of the ongoing CONVERGE project. The demonstrator consisted of an embedded system, equipped with a video camera, capable of identifying people and tracking their movement. In this case, a reconfigurable intelligent surface is presented in the … Read more