Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Name Hugo Rafael de Brito Picado
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Nationality Portuguese
Date of birth 22 January 1985
Gender Male
Education and training
Dates September 2007 – December 2008
Title of qualification awarded MSc in Computers and Telematics Engineering (Grade: 17 out of 20)
Organization University of Aveiro, Portugal
Dates September 2003 – September 2007
Title of qualification awarded BSc in Computers and Telematics Engineering (Grade: 16 out of 20)
Organization University of Aveiro, Portugal
Dates 2006 – 2007
Title of qualification awarded CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certificate
Organization University of Aveiro, Portugal
Dates December 2008
Title of qualification awarded Professional Ability Certificate for Training (Classification: Good)
Organization IEFP (Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional), Portugal
Work experience
Dates September 2010 – onwards
Occupation or position held Engineer
Name and address of employer Portugal Telecom Inovação
Dates June 2009 – September 2010
Occupation or position held Professional Internship (Trainee at Portugal Telecom from September 2009 to September 2010)
Name and address of employer Portugal Telecom Inovação
Dates March 2009 – onwards
Occupation or position held Trainer of Technologies of Information and Communication
Name and address of employer Freelancer
Dates November 2008 – May 2009
Occupation or position held Team Leader. Researcher for Project ACORD (Adaptive Coordination of Robotic Teams)
Name and address of employer IEETA (Institute of Engineering of Electronics and Telematics of Aveiro), Aveiro, Portugal
FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto), Porto, Portugal
Dates May 2007 – November 2008
Occupation or position held Researcher of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Name and address of employer IEETA (Institute of Engineering of Electronics and Telematics of Aveiro), Aveiro, Portugal
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Dates March 2004 – November 2008
Occupation or position held Part-time employer (Responsible for customer interaction and product stock control)
Name and address of employer Jumbo of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Personal skills
Mother language Portuguese
Other languages
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing
European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English C1 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user
Spanish B2 Independent user B2 Independent user A1 Basic user A1 Basic user A1 Basic user
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Computer skills Operating systems
- Windows, Linux, HP-UX
Programming Languages
- Java (J2SE/J2EE), C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python
System analysis and design:
- Rational Rose UML
Mobile development:
- Google Android, Java ME, Windows CE
Databases, Datagrid and Data access:
- Oracle Database (PL/SQL), Microsoft SQL Server (T/SQL), MySQL, Oracle TimesTen,
Apache Derby
- Oracle Coherence
- JPA, Hibernate
Development lifecycle, system versioning and testing:
- Confluence Wiki, JIRA
- CVS, SVN, GIT, BZR
- TestNG, JUnit, JMockit
Compiler construction
- ANTLR, Flex, Bison
Web and Desktop applications development
- Flash/Actionscript, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), HTML, JavaScript, AJAX
- Adobe Flex, Visual Basic, GTK, QT
Integrated development environments (IDE)
- Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans, Adobe Flex Builder, Oracle SQL Developer,
TOAD SQL Developer, Microsoft Robotics Studio
Document and image applications
- Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Publisher, Project, Visio, LaTeX, AWK, Adobe
photoshop, GIMP
Other
- Logic and functional programming: Prolog, CAML
- Reconfigurable computing: VHDL, SystemC
- Evolutionary programming toolkits: GADS, GALIB
- 3D visualization and modeling: OpenGL, VTK
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Driving licence Category B driver license
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Additional information Awards:
- Merit scholarship received from University of Aveiro, 26 May 2006
- Merit award received from Inova-Ria, 1 June 2009
Publications:
- Hugo Picado, Marcos Gestal, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis, Ana Tomé, Automatic generation of
biped walk behavior using genetic algorithms, In Proceedings of 2009 International Work
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN’09), Salamanca (Spain), June 2009.
- Hugo Picado, Marcos Gestal, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis, Biped locomotion methodologies
applied to humanoid robotics, In proceedings of 2009 Doctoral Symposium on Informatics
Engineering (DSIE’09), Porto (Portugal), February 2009.
- Hugo Picado, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis, FCPortugal3D: Paper Contributions, Results and Work
for the Simulation Community, Accepted for the qualification of RoboCup 2009, Graz (Austria),
June 2009.
- Hugo Picado, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis, FCPortugal3D: 2009 team description, Accepted for
the qualification of RoboCup 2009, Graz (Austria), June 2009.
- Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis, Hugo Picado, Nuno Almeida, Paper Contributions, Results and Work
for the Simulation Community of FCPortugal, RoboCup 2008 Proceedings CD, Suzhou (China),
July 2008.
- Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis, Hugo Picado, Nuno Almeida, FCPortugal: Simulated Humanoid
Team Description Proposal for RoboCup 2008, RoboCup 2008 Proceedings CD, Suzhou
(China), July 2008.
Paper reviews:
- Review of the paper nr. 461 (Data mining in complex diseases using evolutionary computation)
submitted to IWANN’09, Salamanca (Spain)
- Review of the paper nr. 54 (Parameter optimization for a signal-based omni-directional biped
locomotion by using evolutionary strategies) submitted to RoboCup Symposium 2009, Graz
(Austria)
Additional projects:
- Face detection using PCA, SVM and neural networks
- Personal electronic Health Diary – web information system
- Natural language processing system for robotics
- Coordination of agents in the scope of RoboCup simulation 2D
- Implementation of the graph abstract data type
- Implementation of an interpreter of the Pascal programming language
- Implementation of Forwarding and Stalling in a MIPS architecture with pipelines
- Study and implementation of static and dynamic branch prediction techniques
Participation in Scientific Events:
- 10th International Work Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN’09), June 2009,
Salamanca, Spain
- 4th Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering (DSIE’09), February 2009, Porto, Portugal
- The 12th RoboCup World Championship, Soccer Simulation League, July 2008, Suzhou, China
- RoboCup International Symposium, July 2008, Suzhou, China
- Conference “Interpretação de Sinais Biomédicos”, Dra. Ana Tomé, May 2008, Aveiro, Portugal
- Conference “Bio-Informática: Desafios e Aplicações”, Dr. José Luís Oliveira, May 2008, Aveiro,
Portugal
- Conference “Projecto RT.saude.org”, March 2007, Eng. João Paulo Cunha, Aveiro, Portugal
- Conference “Projecto Médigraf”, March 2007, Eng. Alexandre Seixas, Aveiro, Portugal
- Conference “Sistema de informação único da Universidade de Aveiro”, Eng. Osvaldo Pacheco,
March 2007, Aveiro, Portugal
- Conference “Tecnologia Java para redes móveis”, Eng. Laura Paiva and Eng. Marco Monteiro,
March 2007, Aveiro, Portugal
- Conference “Sistemas de Informação Clínicos”, Eng. Maria Rodrigues, Eng. Nuno Alexandre
Seixas and Eng. João Paulo Cunha, March 2007, Aveiro, Portugal
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