Curriculum Vitae
MSc student in Systems, Control and Robotics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, focused on autonomous systems at the intersection of control theory and AI.
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MSc in Systems, Control and Robotics
Aug 2026 – Jul 2027KTH Royal Institute of Technology — Stockholm, Sweden
Second year of the dual MSc with Instituto Superior Técnico.
MSc in Electrical Engineering, Major in Control, Robotics and AI (GPA 19/20)
Sep 2025 – Jul 2026Instituto Superior Técnico — Lisbon, Portugal
• First year of the dual MSc with KTH.
• Relevant coursework: Autonomous Systems, Deep Learning, Distributed Real-Time Control Systems (all 20/20); Machine Learning, Distributed Predictive Control and Estimation (19/20).
BSc in Engineering Physics (GPA 18/20)
Sep 2022 – Jul 2025Instituto Superior Técnico — Lisbon, Portugal
Thesis (graded 20/20): Optical Implementation of Quantum-Inspired and Classical Classifiers with a Joint Transform Correlator.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Fellow, Transportation Systems
Feb 2025 – PresentCERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico — Lisbon, Portugal
• Collaborate with the TU Munich research team in the FORTHCOMING EU project to adapt the MITO travel-demand model to the Lisbon metropolitan area, owning the pipeline from raw census data to operational baseline scenarios.
• Generated a synthetic population of 2.87M agents and 1.1M households (IPU fitting against census data) and estimated nested-logit mode-choice models from 80,000+ travel-survey trips.
• Ran policy simulations on the calibrated model: bridge-closure impact, zero-emission zones and telework scenarios.
Research Student
Apr 2025 – Jun 2026Quantum Photonics Lab, Instituto de Telecomunicações — Lisbon, Portugal
• Implemented a quantum-inspired optical classifier on a single-lens setup; proposed and evaluated the HS Frobenius distance metric, gaining 10 p.p. accuracy over classical linear baselines on MNIST.
• Built the experimental control stack (spatial light modulator + camera synchronisation) and open-sourced the simulation framework.
• Co-authoring a journal manuscript on the method (in preparation); work graded 20/20 as BSc thesis.
Other Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Dec 2022 – Jan 2024Student Hub (ed-tech startup) — Lisbon, Portugal
• Built and shipped a REST API (Python Flask + PostgreSQL) reaching 3,000+ users within two months of launch; added pytest unit/E2E suites and GitHub Actions CI/CD with deployment to Azure.
Projects
Self-Balancing Robot
2024C++, control theory, embedded systems
Designed, built and programmed a two-wheeled self-balancing robot; implemented and tuned a PID control loop for active stabilisation under external disturbances.