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Luís Fernandes, Pedro Carvalho and Luís Guardão

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Every month, this section will honour a collaborator for an exceptional contribution in his/her area of activity. BIP’s Editors will have the final choice. However, the cooperation of every Unit Coordinator is precious since they will be the ones suggesting which collaborator should be distinguished...

Luís Fernandes

Luís Fernandes, UOSE – February 2010

"Luís Fernandes is a Ph.D. student from the Department of Physics of the University of Porto (UP) and a researcher at the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE). His doctoral programme is related to the production of optical integrated devices directly written by femtosecond laser. Luís develops his doctoral programme in partnership with the University of Toronto, Canada, and is supervised by professors Paulo Marques, Stewart Aitchison and Peter Herman.

The results obtained by Luís over the last few months have been excellent, as demonstrated by the article published in the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and by the five oral presentations in world renowned international conferences (Photonics North, Frontiers of Optics and Photonics West). In this last conference, which took place last January, Luís Fernandes was distinguished with the “Student award of Lamom XV”, which awards the best oral presentations carried out by students, having received a pecuniary award of de $400.

For the results achieved over the last year, which culminated in the abovementioned award, UOSE nominates Luís Fernandes for the “Limelight” of January 2010".

Pedro Carvalho

Pedro Carvalho, UTM – March 2010

“The Coordination of UTM considers that Pedro Carvalho clearly stood out for the results with his work and for his outstanding dedication and, for that reason, it is only fair to nominate him for this month’s "Limelight". The excellent “Research & Development" work that Pedro has been carrying out in the context of his Ph.D. thesis, combined with his spirit of initiative and enthusiasm, made two QREN contracts possible, whose work programmes started in February. The projects, LUL (“Living Usability Lab For Next Generation Networks”) and ROBVIGIL (“ROBot VIGILante”), are extremely important for the consolidation of the Unit’s strategy, particularly the collaboration with the Media Analysis group, led by Professor Luís Corte Real.

LUL is a project that aims to develop technology to assist people with physical disabilities, while ROBVIGIL is a project applied to the surveillance of goods and people.  These contracts will make it possible to increase the resources dedicated to this area of research, thus consolidating INESC Porto as a scientific reference in the domain of tracking and recognition based on video and image analysis. Furthermore, Pedro has been continuously giving a valuable contribution to several projects, namely European, playing a decisive role in their successful conclusion”.

 

Luís Guardão

Luís Guardão, UESP – April 2010

"Luís Guardão has been playing an important role in attracting new projects and in the successful preparation of calls. Over the past few months, among other activities, he led the project Pronic, with Parque Escolar, where the intention is to implement the results of a previous project. With a duration of three years, other than being highly attractive to the media, this project represents 285 thousand Euros in service providing for INESC Porto. The aim is to implement the standards for the specification of construction work of the buildings defined by the project Pronic in Parque Escolar's projects. This is strategically important to the sector because it  is expected that after the benefits associated to the use of Pronic are confirmed, the entire construction industry will adopt it, given its impact on the improvement of the quality of construction work, and on the reduction of costs and deadlines.

The performance of this work has required an exceptional dedication and professionalism. Luís Guardão took this challenge with an enormous commitment and enthusiasm, coordinated and motivated a team together with two more people and managed to achieve extremely important results. As a fruit of the work that was developed, in March it was possible to guarantee the use of the system developed by several project offices to prepare the requirements for construction work in high schools. This is a work that is normally carried out under plenty of time constraints, and thus it was necessary to guarantee a high level of availability and a constant support to the users, including training and direct support. In fact, dozens of training programmes have already been provided at a national level".