Projects

Acting as Principal Investigator (PI):

  • UNIFY: Compilation Abstraction and Hardware Adaptation for Specialized and General-Purpose Computing Unification, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project 2022.06780.PTDC (2023-2026).
  • HPVC: High Performance Video Coding with Massive Parallelism in GPUs and Approximate Computing, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Portugal, and by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) – Brazil (2019-2022).
  • HAnDLE: Hardware Accelerated Deep LEarning framework, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PTDC/EEI-HAC/30485/2017 (2018-2022).
  • HELIX: Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architecture for Biological Sequence Analysis, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PTDC/EEA-ELC/113999/2009 (2011-2013).

Acting as research team member:

  • DARE: Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, funded by the European Union under the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) (2025-2028).
  • 3D-CAVE: Accelerator Framework for Real-Time 3D Reconstruction of Underwater Caves, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project 2022.04020.PTDC (2023-2024).
  • ResNetDetect: Early Automatic Detection of Forest Fires Using Residual Learning Neural Networks, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PCIF/MPG/0051/2018 (2020-2023).
  • EPI: European Processor Initiative, funded by the European Union under the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) (2018-2025).
  • EMC2: Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments, funded by the European Union ARTEMIS Joint Technology Initiative, SP1-JTI-ARTEMIS-2013-AIPP5 (2014-2017).
  • P2HCS: Stretching the Limits of Parallel Processing on Heterogenous Computing Systems, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PTDC/EEI-ELC/3152/2012 (2013-2015).
  • THREadS: Multitask System Framework with Transparent Hardware Reconfiguration, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PTDC/EEA-ELC/117329/2010 (2012-2014).
  • TAGS: The power of the short – Tools and Algorithms for next Generation Sequencing applications, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PTDC/EIA-EIA/112283/2009 (2011-2013).
  • IDeA2: Integrated Design for Automation of Anaesthesia, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PTDC/EEA-ACR/69288/2006 (2007-2010).
  • AMEP: Adaptive H.264/AVC Motion Estimation Processor for Mobile and Battery Supplied Devices, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project POSI/EEA-CPS/60765 (2005-2008).
  • COSME: Configurable and Optimized Processing Structures for Motion Estimation, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PRAXIS-XXI – POSI/40877/CHS (2001-2004).
  • High Resolution Modeling and Processing of ECG Signals, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT Project PRAXIS/PSAU/C/SAU/24/96 (1997-1999).