Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Hugo Conceição
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Hugo Conceição
Rua 5 de Outubro, no. 182, 1C, 4100-172, Porto, Portugal
00 351 934247655
hugocon@gmail.com
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~hc
Skype hugo.dcc
Sex Male | Date of birth 23/03/1985 | Nationality Portuguese
JOB APPLIED FOR
WORK EXPERIENCE
(2009 - ) Ph.D. Student at University of Porto (UP) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
As part of the CMU-Portugal dual degree program, I am enrolled in the MAP-I “Doctoral Program in
Computer Science”, and in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Program at CMU.
My advisors are Professor Michel Ferreira (UP), and Professor Peter Steenkiste (CMU)
▪ My research is mostly in the areas of Distributed Systems and Wireless Networks
(Jan 2012 – May 2012)
Teaching Assistant in Wireless Networks (CMU)
Under the supervision of Professor Peter Steenkiste
Responsibilities: Office hours; homework, quiz and exam preparation and evaluation
(Aug 2011 – Dec 2011)
Teaching Assistant in Applied Stochastic Processes (CMU)
Under the supervision of Professor Ozan Tonguz
Responsibilities: Office hours; Recitations; Homework, quiz and exam preparation and evaluation
(Fev 2008 – Jun 2008)
Teaching Assistant in Programming Paradigms (DCC-FCUP)
Under the supervision of Professor Sandra Alves
Responsibilities: Recitations
(Sep 2007 – Jan 2008)
Teaching Assistant in Introduction to Programming (DCC-FCUP)
Under the supervision of Professor Pedro Vasconcelos
Responsibilities: Recitations
(Sep 2007 – Jan 2008)
Teaching Assistant in Databases (DCC-FCUP)
Under the supervision of Professor Ricardo Rocha
Responsibilities: Recitations; Project Evaluation
(Fev 2007 – Jun 2007)
Teaching Assistant in Structured Programming (DCC-FCUP)
Under the supervision of Professor Ana Paula Tomás.
Responsibilities: Recitations
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Curriculum Vitae Hugo Conceição
(Dec 2006 – Jun 2008)
Research Assistant in Project MYDDAS and JEDI
FCT BIC Scholarship under the supervision of Professor Michel Ferreira
Research in the areas of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Logical Programming and Spatial Databases
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
(2009 – ) Ph.D. Student at UP and CMU PhD. Student
Completed Qualifying, and Teaching Assistant Requirements
Courses:
▪ Applied Stochastic Processes
▪ Wireless Networks
▪ Distributed Systems
▪ Fault Tolerant and Distributed Systems
▪ Packet Switching and Computer networks
▪ Machine Learning
(Sep 2004 – Sep 2008) Diploma in Computer Science Diploma
Classification: 18 out of 20
Courses:
▪ Design and Analysis of Algorithms
▪ Programming Paradigms: Imperative, Functional, and Logical Programming
▪ Parallel and Distributed Programming
▪ Operating Systems
▪ Compilers
▪ Complexity
▪ Databases and Spatial Databases
▪ Computer Networks, Wireless Networks
▪ Computer Architecture
▪ Web Programming
▪ Graphical Interfaces
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)
Portuguese
Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English C2 C2 C1 C1 C1
Spanish A1 A1 A1 A1
Levels: A1/2: Basic user - B1/2: Independent user - C1/2 Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Communication skills
Good communication skills gained through my experience in making presentations in international
conferences, and in serving as teaching assistant giving office hours and recitations.
As part of the requirements at CMU, I successfully completed the “International Teaching Assistant”
test obtaining the highest mark, which enables me to perform all teaching assistant (undergraduate or
graduate) assignments, and also serve as sole instructor for a course.
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Curriculum Vitae Hugo Conceição
Computer skills • Good knowledge and experience in the programming languages: C, C++, Python
• Also knowledgeable in: Java, Prolog, Haskell, Shell Scripting (BASH), HTML
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Understanding of the concepts of database design, deductive and spatial databases. Experience
in SQL. Experience in MySQL and PostgreSQL (including spatial extensions and Python API).
• Notions of security in programming.
• Experience with network programming.
• Good knowledge in distributed algorithms and distributed systems theory.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP and computer networks, including wireless networks and mobile ad
hoc networks.
• Notions of machine learning. Able to use machine learning tools (WEKA, Scikit-Learn) and use
machine learning to solve problems.
• Knowledge in Linux and OS X administration and programming
• Network simulations
• Software tools: Eclipse, Matlab, Mathematica, TornadoWeb, Latex
Job-related skills
▪ Good background in mathematics
▪ Good presentation skills
▪ Able to read research papers and apply state-of-the-art knowledge to solve problems
Driving licence
▪ B
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Publications
Projects
Honours and awards
• H. Conceição, M. Ferreira, P. Steenkiste. Virtual Traffic Lights in Partial Deployment Scenarios, 2013
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2013.
• M. Ferreira, R. Fernandes, H. Conceicao, P. Gomes, P. M. d'Orey, L. Moreira-Matias, J. Gama, F. Lima,
L. Damas. Vehicular Sensing: Emergence of a Massive Urban Scanner, Third International
Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE), Lisbon, Portugal, 2012.
• An Interactive Simulation of a Distributed Traffic Control System based on VANET (Demo Paper).
H. Conceição, R. Fernandes, P. Gomes, M. Ferreira, O. K. Tonguz, in 16th Annual International
Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - ACM MobiCom 2010, Chicago, IL, USA,
September 2010.
• Self-Organized Traffic Control, M. Ferreira, R. Fernandes, H. Conceição, W. Viriyasitavat, O. K.
Tonguz, in 7th ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking - VANET 2010, Chicago,
IL, USA, September 2010.
• Stereoscopic Aerial Photography: An Alternative to Model-Based Urban Mobility Approaches.
Michel Ferreira, Hugo Conceição, Ricardo Fernandes and Ozan Tonguz, in The Sixth ACM
International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2009), Beijing, China, September
2009.
• Urban Connectivity Analysis of VANETs through Stereoscopic Aerial Photography. Michel
Ferreira, Hugo Conceição, Ricardo Fernandes and Ozan Tonguz, in The 70th IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference VTC2009-Fall, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 2009.
• Locating Cars through a Vision Enabled VANET. Michel Ferreira, Hugo Conceição, Ricardo
Fernandes, and Rogério Reis, in 2009 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Shaanxi, China, June
2009.
• A cautionary view of Mobility and Connectivity Modeling in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. Hugo
Conceição, Michel Ferreira, and João Barros, in The 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
VTC2009-Spring Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, April 2009.
• On the urban connectivity of vehicular sensor networks. Hugo Conceição, Michel Ferreira, and João
Barros. In Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems (DCOSS'08), 2008, pp. 112-125
• Large-Scale Simulation of V2V Environments. Hugo Conceição, Luís Damas, Michel Ferreira, and
João Barros. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC'2008,
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008. ACM Press.
Virtual Traffic Lights FCT project: http://www.virtualtrafficlights.com
▪ 2005: Participation on the 2005 Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC). 8th place out of
55 teams from 7 different countries (best Portuguese team).
▪ 2006: 1st place on University of Porto's Programming Contest. 1st place on the National ACM
Programming Contest. Silver medal on the SWERC 2006.
▪ 2007: Merit Scholarship, given by the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science of the UP
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