Career & Background
Professional experience, education, and key milestones.
Autonomous Systems Engineer
SeaPower
Building deployable AI-enabled systems for autonomous platforms, with emphasis on perception-related pipelines, system integration, and engineering-ready software components.
- Building and integrating autonomy-related software components for real-world systems
- Contributing deployable AI/ML pipelines and engineering implementation
- Working across perception-oriented modules, system integration, and production-facing software delivery
- Supporting engineering-ready autonomy capabilities rather than research-only prototypes
FCT-funded PhD Researcher
Instituto Superior Técnico · Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Full-time doctoral research at Instituto Superior Técnico under competitive FCT funding, focused on hybrid and distributed optimization for multi-agent drone systems and wildfire surveillance.
- Developed hybrid optimization-based control frameworks for drone swarms in wildfire surveillance
- Built distributed ADMM methods for database partitioning, reducing optimization time from 24+ hours to about 10 seconds per region
- Modeled drought and fire-weather data for trajectory planning, achieving 95% coverage and a 32.31% surveillance-time reduction via distributed computation
- First-authored 7 peer-reviewed publications on distributed and hybrid optimization for resilient multi-agent systems
Data Scientist
Guangyuan Keyou Technology Development (Hong Kong) Co., Limited
Analyzed and modeled pipeline corrosion data in collaboration with software engineers to support an application for real-time detection and monitoring of pipeline status.
- Built analysis and modeling workflows for pipeline corrosion monitoring
- Collaborated with software engineers on application-facing detection and monitoring requirements
Expert
Kaggle
Achieved Kaggle Expert tier through competition participation, reflecting practical experience in applied machine learning workflows.
- Reached Kaggle Expert tier through competition participation
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Doctoral research in distributed nonlinear optimization for multi-agent autonomous systems.
- Scholarship Within the Framework of R&D Projects and Institutions (2019–2020) — BL204/2018
- FCT doctoral funding (2021–2025)
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Macau
- 2015 Henry Fok Foundation Scholarship (Top 1 student in ECE)
- Sensor-based Cooperative Robotics Research (SCORE) laboratory
Joined SeaPower as an Autonomous Systems Engineer, building autonomous platforms.
Published key doctoral research outputs on gradient descent dynamics, stochastic coverage, and hybrid optimization for drone surveillance.
Worked as a part-time Data Scientist at Guangyuan Keyou and reached Kaggle Expert tier.
Began full-time PhD research under competitive FCT funding at Instituto Superior Técnico for wildfire surveillance in drone swarms.
Started the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Awarded Scholarship Within the Framework of R&D Projects and Institutions (BL204/2018).
Graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Macau.
Received the Henry Fok Foundation Scholarship as the top student in ECE.
Began B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Macau.