César Alexandre Domingues Teixeira

Personal Data

Place and date of Birth: Faro, Portugal, March 28, 1980
Nationality: Portuguese
Professional Address: Centre for Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Campus de Gambelas, University of Algarve
8005-139, Faro, Portugal
Phone: +351 289 800950
Fax: +351 289 819403
Email: cateixeira@ualg.pt

Academic Degrees

9/98 to 9/03 - "Licenciatura" (a five-years first degree course) in Computation and Systems Engineering by University of Algarve, Portugal, with the mark of 17 (out of 20)

Actual and previous scientific activities

9/01 to 10/03 - Undergraduate research grant, with financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia at Centre for Intelligent Systems, University of Algarve, Portugal

Since 1/04 - PhD student with financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (scholarship SFRH/BD/14061/2003) at Centre for Intelligent Systems, University of Algarve, Portugal

Current research interests

At the moment is interested in Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, and Fuzzy Systems. PhD thesis on development of Soft-Computing techniques for accurate non-invasive tissue temperature estimation in time and space, applied to therapeutic ultrasound instrumentation control.

Publication in international journals with referees

  1. Ruano, A. E.; Fleming, P. J.; Lopes, J. C.; Teixeira, C. A.; Rodríguez-Vásquez K.; Fonseca, C. M.
    Nonlinear Identification of Aircraft Gas-Turbine Dynamics
    Neurocomputing; 2002

Publication in conference proceedings

  1. Teixeira, C., Ruano, M. G., Ruano, A. E.
    Emboli Classification using RBF Neural Networks In proc. Sixth Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (Controlo 2004), University of Algarve, pp. 630-635, June 2004
  2. Teixeira, C., Ruano, A. E.
    Temperature, pH, and Conductivity Control of the Nutrient Solution of an Hydroponic Greenhouse In proc. Sixth Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (Controlo 2004), University of Algarve, pp. 518, June 2004
  3. C. A. Teixeira, G. Cortela, H. Gomez, M. G. Ruano, A. E. Ruano, C. Negreira, W. C. A. Pereira
    Modelos de Temperatura de um Meio Homog'eneo sob Ultrassom de Terapia
    In proc. III Latin-American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, João Pessoa, Brazil, September 22-25, 2004 (in CD-ROM)
  4. C. A. Teixeira, W. C. A. Pereira, A. E. Ruano, M. Graça Ruano
    Multiobjective genetic algorithm applied to the structure selection of RBFNN temperature estimators 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA.05), University of Coimbra, March 21 - 23, 2005 (Submitted)
  5. C. A. Teixeira, M. Graça Ruano, W. C. A. Pereira, A. E. Ruano
    Temperature modelling of an homogeneous medium using genetically selected RBF(LIC)
    16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 4 - 8, 2005 (Submitted)

Awards

  1. Winner of the merit scholarship at University of Algarve for the year 2002/2003.
  2. Third prize in the IFMBE Student Paper Competition in conjunction with III Latin American congress on Biomedical engineering (III CLAEB), João Pessoa, Brazil, September 22-25, 2004