About Me

News and Updates

• 1-2023
  Recent Publications

  PROCSIM: An Open-Source Simulator to Generate Energy Community Power Demand and Generation Scenarios, MDPI Energies, 2023

  Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets, Elsevier Utilities Policy, 2023

  Benchmark of Electricity Consumption Forecasting Methodologies Applied to Industrial Kitchens, MDPI Buildings, 2022

  Unlocking the Full Potential of Neural NILM: On Automation, Hyperparameters & Modular Pipelines, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022

  A Data-Centric Analysis of the Impact of Non-Electric Data on the Performance of Load Disaggregation Algorithms, MDPI Sensors, 2022

  A data model and file format to represent and store high frequency energy monitoring and disaggregation datasets, Scientific Reports, 2022

  Privacy protection in smart meters using homomorphic encryption: An overview, WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022

  FPSeq2Q: Fully Parameterized Sequence to Quantile Regression for Net-Load Forecasting with Uncertainty Estimates, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, 2022

  A residential labeled dataset for smart meter data analytics, Scientific Data, 2022

• 01-2023
  Recent Service

  Work in Progress Co-Chair

  GoodIT 2023: International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

  Co-General Chair

  INDIN 2023: Special Session in  the role of RES and DER in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics

  ICASSP 2023: Special Session in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

  TPC Member

  IUI 2023: 28th Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

  GoodIT 2022: ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

  IUI 2022: 27th Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

  ECML PKDD 2022: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases

• 30-01-2023
  CFP: Special Session on the role of RES and DER in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus at IEEE INDIN 2023

  

  I am the co-general chair of a Special Session titled  Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Energy Resources in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Industry Applications, at IEEE INDIN 2023.  Please refer to the IEEE INDN 2023 conference website and the Call for Papers.

  Check also the nexIK project official website.

  You can submit your work by March 1st, 2023.

• 28-09-2022
  CFP: Special Session on NILM at IEEE ICASSP 2023

  I am the co-organizer of a Special Session in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

  You can submit your work by October 19th, 2022.

• 29-12-2022
  CFP: Work in Progress Track at Good IT 2023

  I am the Work in Progress Co-Chair for the International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2023), which will be held in Lisbon, 6-8 September 2023.

  Check the conference website for up-to-date information about the submission process.

• 28-09-2022
  CFP: Special Issue in MDPI Sensors

  I am guest editing a special issue on “Practical Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Approaches with Meaningful Performance Evaluation”, to be published in MDPI Sensors.

  Open for submissions until February 28th, 2023. Check it out!

Positions

• present07/2019

  Research Fellow

  Técnico Lisboa

• present06/2015

  Co-Founder & Data Science Lead

  Prsma.com

• 07/201909/2017

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  University of Madeira

• 06/201901/2017

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  M-ITI

Education

• PhD 2016

  Computer Science

  University of Madeira / M-ITI / CMU

• MSc 2011

  Computer Science

  University of Madeira / M-ITI

• 5 years degree 2007

  Informatics Engineering

  University of Madeira