Curriculum vitae

General information

Name

• Used: Manuel Menezes de Sequeira
• First: Manuel
• Last: Menezes de Sequeira
• Full: Manuel Pinto da Silva Menezes de Sequeira

Address

Praça João do Rio, 11 – 5.º Dto.
1000-180 Lisboa
Portugal
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Contacts

• Mobile phone: +351 962 337 428
• Home phone: +351 218 473 455
• Personal email: mmsequeira@gmail.com
• Gtalk: mmsequeira@gmail.com
• Skype: mmsequeira
• Windows Live: mmsequeira@outlook.com

Web presence

• Professional page: http://www.mmsequeira.pro/
• Personal profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/MMSequeira
• LinkedIn: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/mmsequeira
• Academia.edu: http://independent.academia.edu/MMSequeira
• Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/manuel-menezes-de-sequeira/
• DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=5634445921851618
• ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Menezes_de_Sequeira/
• ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3754-2009

Education

Ph.D.

• Thesis title: Analysis and Coding of Visual Objects: New Concepts and New Tools
• Designation: “Doutoramento” in Electrical and Computers Engineering
• University: UTL (Technical University of Lisbon^[1])
• School: IST (Instituto Superior Técnico)
• Advisor: Professor Carlos Salema
• Co-advisor: Professor Augusto Albuquerque
• Year: 1999

M.Sc.

• Thesis title: Robust Control of Distillation Columns
• Designation: “Mestrado” in Electrical and Computers Engineering (branch of Control and Robotics)
• University: UTL
• School: IST
• Advisor: Professor João Miranda Lemos
• Final grade: 5 out of 5 (very good)
• Year: 1993

B.Sc.

• Thesis title: Modelling and Control of ROVs
• Designation: “Licenciatura” in Electrical and Computers Engineering (branch of Systems and Computers)
• University: UTL
• School: IST
• Advisor: Professor João Sentieiro
• Final grade: 17 out of 20
• Year: 1989

Professional experience

April 2011 – September 2012

Invited Assistant Professor

• University: Piaget Institute^[2]
• School: ISEIT (Instituto Superior de Estudos Interculturais e Transdisciplinares)

• Courses taught:

• Computer Networks I
• Software Engineering II
• Integrative Project

June 2011 – November 2011

Web Developer

• Company: adsoul

April 2011 – July 2011

Invited Assistant Professor

• University: UCP (Catholic University of Portugal^[3])
• School: FE (Faculty of Engineering^[4])

• Courses taught:

• Communications and Computer Networks

June 2009 – January 2011

Assistant Professor

• University: ISCTE-IUL (ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute^[5])
• School: ISTA (ISCTE-IUL School of Technology and Architecture)
• Department: DCTI (Department of Information Science and Technology^[6])

• Courses taught and coordinated:

• Advanced Programming

• Courses taught:

• Software Engineering I
• Introduction to Programming
• Object-Oriented Programming

October 2005 – May 2009

Director

• Department: CI/DSI (Computing Services^[7])
• Organization: ISCTE-IUL.

Invited Assistant Professor

• University: ISCTE-IUL
• Department: DCTI

• Courses taught and coordinated:

• Advanced Programming

March 1999 – September 2005

Assistant Professor

• University: ISCTE-IUL
• Department: DCTI

• Courses taught and coordinated:

• Advanced Programming (2002 – 2005)
• Multimedia Signal Processing (2000 – 2005), see [BC1,BC2]
• Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Programming (1998 – 2004), see [B1]

• Courses taught:

• Software Engineering (2004 – 2005)
• Final B.Sc. Project

Other responsibilities at ISCTE-IUL

• Socrates/Erasmus coordinator and international relations officer at DCTI (2003 – 2006)
• Industry connections officer of DCTI (2003 – 2006)
• Member of the Coordination Commission of the Scientific Council (2005)
• Coordinator of the GCTP (Programming Sciences and Technologies Group^[8]) of DCTI (1998 – 2005)
• Coordinator of the freshman year of the LETI (B.Sc. in Telecommunications and Computer Science Engineering^[9]) program (1998 – 2003, except academic year 2000/2001)
• Creator and coordinator of the student tutoring program (academic year 2001/2002)
• Director of the LETI program (1998 – 2000)

February 1996 – March 1999

Teaching Assistant

• University: ISCTE-IUL
• Department: DCTI
• Courses taught and coordinated:

• Programming I / Introduction to Programming (1997 – 2004, coordinator from 1998)
• Programming II / Object-Oriented Programming (1997 – 2004, coordinator from 1997)

Older teaching experience

• April 1992 – Introduction to C programming, 80 hour course at FUNDETEC^[10]
• April 1991 – Informatics and Industrial Automation: Introduction to C Programming, three week course at FUNDETEC
• September 1990 – Computer Control of Industrial Processes, one week course at FUNDETEC
• March 1990 – Control Using Computers, one week course at ITEC^[11]

Research

IT Service Management and Business Intelligence

Together with her colleague Elsa Cardoso, started in 2008 to research in the areas of IT Service Management [C14, MSC3] and Business Intelligence [C13, MSC2].

Fénix@ISCTE project

Based on a protocol between ISCTE-IUL and IST, the Fénix@ISCTE project started in 2005 and consisted in the conjoint development of the FénixEDU open source project, initially developed by IST alone. FénixEDU is one of the leading academic management systems in Portugal.

Zás project

A project aiming at the study and development of an aspect-oriented authorization system [TR20, C12, MSC1].

SCRUARM project

Based on a protocol between ISCTE-IUL and Brisa, the SCRUARM project took place between 2002 and 2005. One of its aims was to develop license-plate recognition techniques, based on image analysis, for use in paid motorways to detect frauds [TR17,TR18,TR19,C10,C11].

MODEST project

The ACTS/EU MODEST project aimed at developing an agent based highway surveying system. From 1998 until 1999, participation in the development of agent communication techniques, of a domain specific description definition language, as required by MPEG-7, and of techniques for typical vehicle trajectory estimation and detection of the abnormal behavior of vehicles for camera surveyed highway segments [C9].

MAVT (Mobile Audio-Visual Terminal) project

From 1992 until 1995, participated in the RACE/CEC MAVT project and the closely related COST211ter project [TR1-TR14]. The projects aim was to develop a mobile videophone and the corresponding very low bitrate video coding techniques. Directed an ad hoc group dedicated to the study of video segmentation techniques yielding motion and texture coherent partitions [TR12,TR13,TR14].

Advanced video coding

From 1992 until 1999 researched advanced video coding techniques at the Image Group of IT (Telecommunications Institute^[12], IST – UTL). Developed global motion compensation and cancellation techniques for mobile video telephony [C3,TR1,TR2,TR3,TR4,TR6]; studied knowledge-based segmentation techniques for improving the subjective quality of very low bitrate coding of mobile video telephony [TR5,TR7,C4], object-based coding techniques [TR9], and advanced segmentation techniques [C5,J1,C8]; studied contour coding techniques [C6,J2,TR8, TR10,TR11,TR16] and the segmentation and motion estimation interdependency problem [TR13]; and designed object-oriented video codecs [C7].

Computer control of distillation columns

From 1989 until 1992 studied distillation column dynamics [C2], developed a distillation column simulator (in C) [TAP3], and designed a binary distillation column control system using classical and robust techniques [TAP4].

FSVs (Free Swimming Vehicles)

From 1988 until 1989 studied the dynamics of Free Swimming Vehicles (FSV) [TAP2]; developed a visualization engine for the simulation of FSVs (in C) [TAP1]; and studied variable structure control [TAP2] and adaptive control [C1] performance when applied to the control of FSVs.

Reviewing activity

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (including a special issue on MPEG-4)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEE Proceedings – Vision, Image & Signal Processing

Conferences

• Iberian Workshop on Aspect Oriented Software Development (DSOA 2005)
• 5th Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele 2005)
• Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2004)

Advisories

• Ricardo Barroso, as co-advisor, with advisor Elsa Cardoso, M.Sc., September 2011, thesis: Implementação e Monitorização do Processo de Gestão de Alterações do ITIL® V3 nos Serviços de Informática do ISCTE-IUL^[13]
• Paulo Ferreira, with co-advisor Elsa Cardoso, M.Sc., January 2011, thesis: Implementação de Processos da Fase de Operação de Serviço do ITIL® em Ambiente Universitário: O Caso do ISCTE-IUL^[14]
• Ricardo Martins, as co-advisor with Elsa Cardoso as advisor, M.Sc., June 2010, thesis: Melhores Práticas ITIL no Contexto Universitário: Aplicação à Gestão de Activos de Serviço no ISCTE-IUL^[15]
• Paulo Zenida, M.Sc., July 2007, thesis: Zás: An Aspect-Oriented Access Control Framework

Juries

(Except presence in juries of advisees.)

• March 2009, DCTI – ISCTE-IUL, David Rodrigues, M.Sc. thesis: Detecção de Comunidades no Sistema de Correio Electrónico Universitário^[16]
• June 2004, IST – UTL, Pedro Fonseca, M.Sc. thesis: Face Detection and Object Tracking in the Compressed Domain

Event organization

In November 2011, helped to organize the "1st Classical Liberalism Conference", sponsored by Causa Liberal^[17] and Instituto Ludwig von Mises Portugal^[18].

In April 2005, organized the "Agile Software Development Methodologies" seminar, sponsored by ISCTE-IUL and Microsoft Portugal.

Prizes

• 1990 – Totta & Açores Bank prize for the best electrical and computers engineering student of IST – UTL.
• 1990 – OE (Engineers Guild^[19]) prize for the best student of IST – UTL.

Training periods

• July 1994 – Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Technical University of Catalonia – Studied object-oriented video coding techniques with an emphasis on motion segmentation of image sequences.
• July 1991 – Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark – Studied control of distillation columns while integrated in Prof. Sten Bay Jørgensen's research group.

Languages

• Portuguese – Native
• English – Excellent (English as a Foreign Language from the American Language Institute of Lisbon)
• French – Good
• Castilian (Spanish) – Good

Associations

Professional

• ACCU (Association of C & C++ Users)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

• SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
• SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)
• SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering)
• SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services)

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Institute)

• Computer Society
• Education Society

• IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology)
• itSMF Portugal (IT Service Management Forum Portugal)
• OE (Engineers Guild)
• SAGE (The USENIX Special Interest Group for Sysadmins)

Non-professional

• Causa Liberal – Portuguese libertarian Think Tank, see [NA1,NA2,NA3]
• Instituto Ludwig von Mises Portugal – Portuguese libertarian Think Tank
• LPN (League for the Protection of Nature^[20]) – Portuguese environmental NGO

Civic activities/Philanthropy

• From 2002 until 2005, elected member of the Assembleia de Freguesia^[21] de S. João de Deus
• Translator into Portuguese of various open and closed source projects, including:

• BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks)
• Horde
• LibraryThing
• MediaWiki
• Ning
• Nozbe
• OTRS
• Scratch

• IT manager and member of the direction of the Causa Liberal
• IT manager of the Instituto Ludwig von Mises Portugal
• Sporadic editor of the Wikipedia (English and Portuguese versions) and of Wikisource (Portuguese version)

Publications

Book chapters

[BC2] Ferran Marqués, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo, “How are digital TV programs compressed to allow broadcasting?”, in Thierry Dutoit and Ferran Marqués (editors), Applied Signal Processing: A MATLAB™-Based Proof of Concept, pages 311–359, Springer, 2009.

[BC1] Ferran Marqués, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo, “How are digital images compressed in the web?”, in Thierry Dutoit and Ferran Marqués (editors), Applied Signal Processing: A MATLAB™-Based Proof of Concept, pages 265–310, Springer, 2009.

Journal papers

[J2] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira and Diogo Cortez, "Partitions: A Taxonomy of Types and Representations and an Overview of Coding Techniques", Signal Processing: Image Communication, special issue on MPEG-4, 10(1–3): 5–19, July 1997.

[J1] Diogo Cortez, Paulo Nunes, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Fernando Pereira, "Image Segmentation Towards New Image Representation Methods", Signal Processing: Image Communication, 6(6):485–498, February 1995.

Conference papers

[C14] Ricardo Martins, Elsa Cardoso, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Henrique Borges, “ITIL nas universidades: Projecto-Piloto em Gestão de Activos de TI no ISCTE-IUL”, Proceedings of the CAPSI 2010 Conference, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, October 20-22, 2010.

[C13] Raquel Velada, Elsa Cardoso, Ana Antunes, António Caetano, Rui Bento, Francisco Aguiar, Sílvia Silva, and Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, “Achievements of the Bologna Process Reforms: An Integrated Management and IT Approach”, Proceedings of the EUNIS 2009 Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 23-26, 2009.

[C12] Paulo Zenida, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Diogo Henriques, and Carlos Serrão, "Zás – Aspect-Oriented Authorization Services", Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2006), Setúbal, Portugal, 46–53, September 11-14, 2006.

[C11] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Tomás Brandão, and Miguel Albuquerque, "Evaluation of License-Plate Location Algorithms", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2004), Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, April 21-23, 2004.

[C10] Tomás Brandão, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Miguel Albuquerque, "Multistage Morphology-Based License-Plate Location Algorithm", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2004), Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, April 21-23, 2004.

[C9] Luís Miguel Botelho, Rui Lopes, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Paulo Almeida, and Sérgio Martins, "Inter-agent communication in a FIPA compliant intelligent distributed dynamic-information system", in N. Callaos, N. Nada, A. Cherif, and M. Aveledo (editors), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS99), International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), 1999.

[C8] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, "Time Recursive Split & Merge Segmentation of Video Sequences", Actas da Conferência Nacional de Telecomunicações, 333–336, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal, April 1997.

[C7] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, "Motion Analysis for Segmentation-Based Encoding of Video Sequences", Proceedings of the 7th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 8.2.1–8.2.8, Aveiro, Portugal, March 1995.

[C6] Diogo Cortez, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Fernando Pereira, "Classification and Coding of Contour Information", Proceedings of the 7th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1.4.1–1.4.10, Aveiro, Portugal, March 1995.

[C5] Diogo Cortez, Paulo Nunes, and Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, "Image Analysis Towards Very Low Bitrate Video Coding", Proceedings of the 6th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 207–216, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1994.

[C4] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira and Fernando Pereira, "Knowledge-Based Videotelephone Sequence Segmentation", Proceedings of SPIE's Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing '93, 858–869, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 1993.

[C3] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira and Fernando Pereira, "Global Motion Compensation and Motion Vector Smoothing in an Extended H.261 Recommendation", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Fiber Optic Networks and Video Communications, 226–237, Berlin, Germany, April 1993.

[C2] Ana M. Barreiros, G. Bernardo-Gil, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and João Miranda Lemos, "Modeling and Simulation of Structured Packing Column Distillation", Proceedings of the International Chemical Engineering Conference (CHEMPOR'93), Porto, Portugal, 4–6 April, 1993.

[C1] Carlos Silvestre, João Miranda Lemos, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and João S. Sentieiro, "Modelling and Adaptive Control of a Deepwater FSV", Preprints of the 11th IFAC World Congress, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR, 13–17 August, 1990.

Technical reports

[TR20] Paulo Zenida, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Diogo Henriques, and Carlos Serrão, Zás – Aspect-Oriented Authorization Services (first take), Technical report CI-2006-01, CI, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006.

[TR19] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Tomás Brandão, and Miguel Albuquerque, Evaluation of License-Plate Location Algorithms, Technical Report, Image Group, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2003.

[TR18] Tomás Brandão, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, and Miguel Albuquerque, Multistage Morphology-Based License-Plate Location Algorithm, Technical Report, Image Group, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2003.

[TR17] Image Group, Emparelhamento e Reconhecimento de Veículos – Estado da Arte, Technical Report, Image Group, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2003.

[TR16] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Partitions: A Taxonomy of Types and Representations and an Overview of Coding Techniques, Technical Report 001, Image Group, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal, May 1996.

[TR15] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Video Coding Libraries, Internal report, IST-UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, 1995.

[TR14] Ad hoc Group on Motion Analysis and Segmentation for Compression, Mail Reflector Discussions and IST Work Report, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP6.2/NC/R/21.11.94/033, Darmstadt, Germany, November 1994.

[TR13] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Proposal for Future Work within the “Ad hoc Group on Motion Analysis and Segmentation for Compression”, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP6.2/NC/R/21.11.94/031, Fontainebleau, France, November 1994.

[TR12] CCETT, CNET, CSELT, Daimler-Benz, IST, PTT, and Thomson, Activity Report of the “Ad hoc Group on Motion Analysis and Segmentation for Compression”, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP6.2/NC/R/21.11.94/030, Fontainebleau, France, November 1994.

[TR11] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Improved Spline Implementation, Technical report COST211ter: SIM(94)41, Tampere, Finland, June 1994.

[TR10] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Removal of Redundant Vertices, Technical report COST211ter: SIM(94)40, Tampere, Finland, June 1994.

[TR9] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, COST/MAVT RM1 Implementation and Future Improvements, Technical project RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP6.2/NC/R/4.5.94/027, Barcelona, Spain, May 1994.

[TR8] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Quick Cubic Spline Implementation, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP6.2/NC/R/9.2.94/022, Ulm, Germany, March 1994.

[TR7] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira and Fernando Pereira, Knowledge Based Videotelephone Sequence Segmentation II, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP2.1/C/R/27.7.93/019, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1993.

[TR6] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Computational Weight of Global Motion Cancellation, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP2.1/C/R/10.3.93/016, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1993.

[TR5] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira and Fernando Pereira, Knowledge Based Videotelephone Sequence Segmentation, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP2.1/C/R/22.2.93/015, London, United Kingdom, February 1993.

[TR4] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Global Motion Compensation and Cancellation – Contribute to Deliverable 9, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WP2.1/NC/R/4.12.92/013, Hildesheim, Germany, November 1992.

[TR3] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Global Motion Detection for Camera Vibration Cancellation, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WG2.1/NC/R/13.11.92/010, Munich, Germany, November 1992.

[TR2] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Global Motion Compensation and Cancellation, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WG2.1/NC/R/13.11.92/009, Munich, Germany, November 1992.

[TR1] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Global Motion Compensation and Motion Vector Smoothing in an Extended H.261 Recommendation, Technical report RACE MAVT: 72/IST/WG2.1/NC/R/005/92, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1992.

Theses and academic projects

[TAP5] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Analysis and Coding of Visual Objects: New Concepts and New Tools, Ph.D. thesis, IST – UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, 1999.

[TAP4] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Controlo Robusto de Colunas de Destilação, M.Sc. thesis, IST – UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, 1993.

[TAP3] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Simulação de Colunas de Destilação, report for M.Sc. course "Advanced Topics in Control and Robotics", IST – UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, 1991.

[TAP2] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Modelação e Controlo de ROVs, B.Sc. thesis, IST – UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, 1989.

[TAP1] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Anima ROVs, report of B.Sc. course "Projecto e Realização de Sistemas de Controlo", IST – UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, 1989.

Books

[B1] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, Programação Orientada para Objectos, unpublished, incomplete draft, 18th February, 2004.

Non-academic publications

[NA3] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, "O Direito ao Mau Gosto", Domingo Liberal, March 2005.

[NA2] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, "Rawls e a Engenharia Genética", Domingo Liberal, April 2005.

[NA1] Manuel Menezes de Sequeira, "The Market of Ideas in Portugal", Atlas Workshop in Lisbon, June 28, 2004.

Publications by advisees

M.Sc. thesis

[MSC4] Ricardo Barroso, Implementação e Monitorização do Processo de Gestão de Alterações do ITIL® V3 nos Serviços de Informática do ISCTE-IUL, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Information Science and Technology, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, September 2011.

[MSC3] Paulo Ferreira, Implementação de Processos da Fase de Operação de Serviço do ITIL® em Ambiente Universitário: O Caso do ISCTE-IUL, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Information Science and Technology, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, January 2011.

[MSC2] Ricardo Martins, Melhores Práticas ITIL no Contexto Universitário: Aplicação à Gestão de Activos de Serviço no ISCTE-IUL, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Information Science and Technology, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, June 2010.

[MSC1] Paulo Zenida, Zás: An Aspect-Oriented Access Control Framework, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Information Science and Technology, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, July 2007.