Research
Counting and safety for walking and cycling
Edge AI and computer vision that let cities measure active travel and assess its safety.
- 2025–CAMINAPrincipal Investigator, University College Dublin. Co-PI: Prof. Francesco PillaOpen-source, on-device multimodal traffic counting. In laboratory validation.
- 2024–COLOURWAYSResearcher overseeing vision-language-model algorithms, UCD
- 2024–REALLOCATEResearcher leading data analytics and spatial analysis, UCDHorizon Europe, GA 101103924
- 2024–26Bike LibraryData Scientist and Backend EngineerNational Transport Authority of Ireland
- 2023CycleAI, Lisboa+Scientific Advisor and Data ScientistVoxPop Lisboa innovation call
Machine learning for pavements
Performance prediction and maintenance planning for road pavements, the subject of my PhD, Artificial Intelligence Applied to Transport Infrastructure Management (University of Coimbra, 2024).
Engineering practice
Road infrastructure engineer and transport systems researcher at LabTrans/UFSC, Brazil, 2013 to 2018, on the DNIT HS-WIM program. Co-developed the national high-speed weigh-in-motion standard; 35 stations deployed with DNIT.