Joaquim L. Viegas
2020
Joaquim Viegas holds a PhD degree in Sustainable Energy Systems from the MIT Portugal program and a MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He currently works as a researcher in an Industry 4.0 project, leading the team responsible for research and development of novel solutions in the fields of Simulation, Optimization and Automation for an industrial partner.
He is a researcher at IDMEC - IST, his research focuses on two areas:
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Research and development in Optimization and Operations Research to solve industrial problems in fields such as Scheduling, Vehicle Routing and Cutting & Packing. Strong focus on metaheuristic approaches such as Genetic Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization.
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Application of Machine Learning and Intelligent Data Modelling techniques to develop innovative solutions for Electricity Utilities, namely on the field of consumer segmentation, demand forecasting, detection of non-technical losses and fault prediction.
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Research on novel Automation solutions and frameworks in under Industry 4.0.