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BIESA, Bio-inspired Expert Systems and Applications Laboratory

About

We are a research group that specializes in using bio-inspired expert systems as our primary tool. Our main objective is to identify and explore various applications and implementations of these systems in different domains including energy, health, sport, and electronics. Our research group is committed to bridging the gap between academia and industry, fostering collaborations and partnerships with companies. We have expertise in several research areas including image processing, machine learning, hardware design, and software design.

Team

Faculty Members

Morgado Dias
Coordinator

University of Madeira

Antonio Ravelo
Senior Researcher

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Filipe Quintal
Researcher

University of Madeira

Lucas Pereira
Researcher

Technical University of Lisbon

Fábio Mendonça
Researcher

University of Madeira

Current Members

External Faculty

Carlos Travieso
Full Professor at ULPGC

Leonel Sousa
Full Professor at University of Lisbon

Nuno Jardim Nunes
Full Professor at the University of Lisbon

Consiglia Mocerino
Associate Professor at University of Rome

Eduardo Fermé
Associate Professor at the University of Madeira

Helena Geirinhas Ramos
Associate Professor at University of Lisbon

Alvaro Gomes
Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra

Élvio Rúbio Gouveia
Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira

Luiz Guerreiro Lopes
Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira

Postdoctoral Researcher

Fábio Mendonça
Post Doc

Sheikh Mostafa
Post Doc

PhD Students

Alex Kramer
PhD Student
Ankit Gupta
PhD Student

Diogo Nuno Freitas
PhD Student

Roham Torabi
PhD Student

Preety Baglat
PhD Student

Décio Alves
PhD Student

Rúben Freitas
PhD Student

Master Students

Daniel Parada
Master Student

Marcos Silva
Master Student

Alexandre Branco
Master Student

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Past Members

PhD Students

Darío Baptista
PhD Student

Fábio Mendonça
PhD Student

Sandy Rodrigues
PhD Student

Sheikh Mostafa
PhD Student

Miguel Freitas
PhD Student

Master Students

Aday Asensio
Master Student
Adriano Lopes
Master Student

André Moura
Master Student
Bernardino Ascensão
Master Student

Carlos Faria
Master Student

Daniel Gomes
Master Student

Dário Fernandes
Master Student

Diogo Nuno Freitas
Master Student

Gisnara Rodrigues
Master Student
Marco Leça
Master Student

Ricardo Garcês
Master Student
Ricardo Jardim
Master Student

Ricardo Sousa
Master Student
Valentim Freitas
Master Student

Wilmer Gonçalves
Master Student

Arturo Alves
Master Student

Researchers

Ashkan Ramezani
Researcher
Fábio Faria
Researcher

Leonardo Reis
Researcher
Nuno Ferreira
Researcher

Rodolfo Sousa
Researcher

Ahatsham
Researcher

Bruno Rocha
Master Student
Leonardo Abreu
Master Student

Rúben Sousa
Master Student

Partners

Awards

  • Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Engineering Applications, 2019.
  • Best Student Paper at the Energy and Sustainability in Small Developing Economies, 2019.
  • NVIDIA GPU Grant Program support, 2018.
  • Best Paper at the International Conference in Biomedical Engineering, 2018.
  • Best Student Paper at the Energy and Sustainability in Small Developing Economies, 2018.
  • Best Student Paper at the Workshop on Electronics Applications and System Integration for Future Technologies, 2018.
  • Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Mathematical, 2018.
  • 2017 Cátedra Telefónica da Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canária, for the work: Analysis of the quality of sleep and APNEA diagnosis from a low cost and minimal complexity artificial intelligence based system. A. G. Ravelo, S. S. Mostafa, F. Mendonça and F. Morgado-Dias.
  • 2017 Publons Top 1 percent peer reviewer in the Multidisciplinary area.
  • Best Student Paper at the 5th IEEE International Conference and Work Shop on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI 2017). 
  • Poster Poster Award in the thematic area of “PV Economics, Markets and Policies”, EU PVSEC 2016.
  • Best paper in Power and Energy Engineering in OPTIROB, Romania, 2015. 
  • Best student paper Award in the Electronic Imaging conference, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2015.
  • Dr. Fernão de Ornelas 2012 Prize – Technologic Innovation in the Social Area.

Main Projects

Main Projects Funding (€)
BASE – BAnana Sensing, in partnership with GESBA-Empresa de Gestão do Sector da Banana, PRODERAM/FEADER (1/6/2021-30/6/2023) 552,541.60
MTL – Marítimo Training LAB, ProCiência 14-20, (12/2019-11/2021) 1,116,027.14
MITIEXCELL – Improving MITI’s Excellence in R&D and leveraging international, Horizon 2020 (2015-2020) 2,436,560.17
Vision 3D – Portable solutions for 2D and 3D visualization for endoscopy medical intervention, +Knowledge Program with the company Awaiba 455,831.32
SmartSOLAR – Solar Management Platform, +Knowledge Program with the company FactorEnergia 417,201.27
RRSO – Restaurant Review Sentiment Output, Prociencia Program with the company Zomato (04/2022-06/2023) 383,778.15
Total Funding of the projects involving BIESA 5,361,939.65

Publications

Most Relevant Papers Impact Factor
“API: an Alternative View for Sleep Stability Analysis based on Automatic Detection of the A-Phases from the Cyclic Alternating Pattern”, F. Mendonça, SS Mostafa, A. Gupta, E. Arnardottir, T. Leppänen, F. Morgado-Dias, A. Ravelo-García, Sleep, 2022 6.313
“A Motion and Illumination Resistant Non-contact Method using Undercomplete Independent Component Analysis and Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm”, Ankit Gupta, A. G. Ravelo-García, F. Morgado-Dias, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2022 5.772
“Particle Swarm Optimisation: A Historical Review Up to the Current Developments”, D. Freitas, L. Lopes, F. Morgado-Dias, Entropy, 2020 2.524
“A Systematic Review of Detecting Sleep Apnea using Deep Learning”, S. S. Mostafa, F. Mendonça, A. G. Ravelo-García, F. Morgado-Dias, Sensors, 2019 3.031
“SC3: Self Configuring Classifier Combination for Obstructive Sleep Apnea”, S. S. Mostafa, F. Mendonça, A. G. Ravelo-García, F. Morgado-Dias, Neural Computing and Applications, 2019 4.213
“A Review of Approaches for Sleep Quality Analysis”, F. Mendonça, S. S. Mostafa, A. G. Ravelo-García, F. Morgado-Dias and T. Penzel, IEEE Access, 2019 3.557
“A Review of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection Approaches”, F. Mendonça, S. S. Mostafa, F. Morgado-Dias, A. G. Ravelo-García, T. Penzel, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019 3.850
“Sleep quality estimation by cardiopulmonary coupling analysis”, F. Mendonça, S. S. Mostafa, F. Morgado-Dias, A. G. Ravelo-García, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2018 3.972
“A global monitoring system for electricity consumption and production of household roof-top PV systems in Madeira”, R. Torabi, S. Rodrigues, N. Cafôfo, L. Pereira, F. Quintal, N. Nunes, F. Morgado-Dias, Neural Computing and Applications, 2018 4.213
“Machine Learning PV System Performance Analyser”, S. Rodrigues, H. Ramos, F. Morgado-Dias, Progress in Photovoltaics, 2018 6.456
“Devices for Home Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Review”, F. Mendonça, S. S. Mostafa, F. Morgado-Dias, A. G. Ravelo-García, T. Penzel, Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2018 10.602
“Economic analysis of photovoltaic systems for the residential market under China’s new regulation”, S. Rodrigues, X. Chen, F. Morgado-Dias, Energy Policy, 2017 4.039
“Automatic general-purpose neural hardware generator”, F. D. Baptista and F. Morgado-Dias, Neural Computing and Applications, 2017 4.213

“NanEye-An Endoscopy Sensor with 3D Image Synchronization”, R. Sousa, M. Wäny, P. Santos, F. Morgado-Dias, IEEE Sensors, 2016 		2.512
“Economic feasibility analysis of small scale PV systems in different countries”, S. Rodrigues, R. Torabi, F. Faria, N. Cafôfo, X. Chen, A. Ramezani, H. Mata-Lima and F. Morgado-Dias, Solar Energy, 2016 4.018
Total Accumulated Impact Factor 169.324

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