Conceição Amado
Institutional Address
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Av. Rovisco Pais 1
1049-001 LISBOA
Phone: +351 218417045 |
Email: conceicao.amado@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Position
Assistant Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
Area
Statistics and Stochastic Processes
Principal Area
Multivariate analysis, robust methods
Other Area
Applied statistics, data mining
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Papers or Chapters in Edited Books- Sousa, R; Amado, Conceição; Henriques, R (2021)
AutoMTS: Fully Autonomous Processing of Multivariate Time Series Data from Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
. In: Wu X., Wu K., Wang C. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems. QShine 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering: vol 381, Springer, Cham.
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- Pereira, Susana; Heitor, Teresa; Costa, Nuno; Amado, Conceição (2017)
Caminhabilidade: uma questão de escala.
. In PLURIS 2018 - 8º Congresso Luso-Brasileiro para o Planeamento Urbano, Regional, Integrado e Sustentável, Coimbra, Portugal, October 24--26, 2018.
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- Almeida, S.; Correia, T.; Casimiro, R.; Amado, Conceição; Lança, R. ; Caetano, J.; Covas, D.; Silvestre, I. (2016)
Avaliação da condição estrutural do sistema de drenagem de águas residuais com base em análise de risco e inspeção CCTV
. 17º Encontro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (ENASB), 14-16 September 2016, Guimarães, Portugal.
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- Almeida, S.; Amado, Conceição; Caetano, J.; Casimiro, R.; Correia, T.; Covas, D.; Silvestre, I. (2016)
Condition assessment of wastewater drainage systems: Cluster analysis and random Forest
. Proceedings 14th International CCWI Conference (Computing and Control for the Water Industry), 7-9 November 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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- Vitorino, D.; Coelho, S.; Sheets, S.; Jurkovac, B.; Santos, P.; Amado, Conceição (2014)
A Random Forest algorithm applied to condition based wastewater deterioration modeling and forecasting
. Procedia Engineering (Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA 2014), 14 - 17 July, Bari, Italy): 89, 401–410.
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- Loureiro, D.; Borba, R; Rebelo, M.; Alegre, H.; Coelho, S.; Covas, D.; Amado, Conceição; Pacheco, António; Pina, A. (2009)
Analysis of household night consumption
. Proceedings of the CCWI 2009 conference, Integrating Water Systems, CRC Press, Londres, Reino Unido: ISBN 978-0-415-54851-9, 557-56.
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PhD Thesis Supervision
- Kenny Santos. Machine Learning and Computational Models for Vulnerable Road Users Safety (provisional title). PhD in Mechanical Engineering. IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervised by J. Dias (IST/DEM/IDMEC) and C. Amado. July 2019...
- Maria José Silva. Probability and Statistics Methods for Water Supply System Management (provisional title). PhD in Statistics and Stochastic Processes. IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervised by C. Amado, D. Loureiro (LNEC) and A. Pacheco (IST/UL). September 2017 - ...
- Teresa Risso. Confidence Intervals by the Minimum Distance Method. Ph.D Program in Statistics and Stochastic Processes. IST/UL, Lisbon. Co-supervised by A. Pires (IST/UL), September, 2017.
- Eunice Carrasquinha. Principal Component Analysis and Circulant matrices. Ph.D Program in Statistics and Stochastic Processes. IST/UL, Lisbon. Co-supervised by A. Pires (IST/UL), July, 2015.
MSc Thesis Supervision (completed):
- Inês Sofia Nunes Duarte. Surgical Annotated 3D Model Fusion Automatic Alignment Calibration using Computer Vision. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and M. Silva (Microsoft). December 2021.
- Miguel Lourenço Figueira Francisco Farinha. Brain Functional Connectivity in Schizophrenia - Disrupted Network Dynamics revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and J. Cabral (ICVS/UMinho). December 2021.
- Bruno Miguel Dos Reis Melgão. Point and Model-based Estimation of Volatility for S&P 500 and Bitcoin. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and I.M. Rodrigues (DM/IST). December 2021.
- Miguel Consiglieri Pedroso Mendes Dias. Test Scenario Generation for Validation of a Black-Box Automated Aircraft Trajectory Generator. MSc in Aerospace Engineering, IST/UL. Supervisors: C. Amado and C. Soares (FCT-UNL). November 2021.
- Rodrigo Mendes Ribeiro. Water Quality Analysis in Water Distributions Systems using Multivariate Statistics and Water Quality Indexes. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and L. Monteiro (CERIS). November 2021.
- Olavo Gonçalves Bacelar. Deep Energy Networks for Data Completion. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: A. Martins (Unbabel), B. Martins (DEI/IST/INESC) and C. Amado. July 2021.
- Pedro Miguel de Aguiar Coelho. Addressing the Texture-Bias and Domain Generalization Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks for Simulation-Based Learning. MSc in Aerospace Engineering, IST/UL. Supervisors: C. Amado and F. Lau (DEM/IST). January 2021.
- Gilberto Daniel Ferreira Pires da Silva. Water Distribution Networks Design with Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: J. Figueira (DEG/IST) and C. Amado. January 2021.
- Ricardo Filipe Lourenço Nunes de Sousa. Autonomous Time Series Data Processing on Historical and Real-Time Settings. MSc in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (MEIC-T). Supervisors: C. Amado and R. Henriques (DEI/IST/INESC). January 2021.
- Mariana Esteves Oliva. Text Analytics to Improve Telecommunication Customers Service Management from Unstructured Data. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and P. Soares. January 2021.
- Tiago André Anciães dos Santos. Unevenly Time Series Modelling of Water Flow Data: a First Approach. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and R. Barreira (IPS). January 2021.
- Leonor Martins da Silva. Churn Prediction within a Competitive Game. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and J. Vila Boa (Chilltime Lda). January 2021.
- Ana Sofia Mendes Agostinho. Clustering Methods and Finite Sampling Approaches to Estimate the Billed Water Consumption in a District Metered Area (DMA). MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. January 2021.
- Ana Teresa Goucha Neves. Modeling and Prediction of a Stride Score. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and A. Wichert (DEI/IST). October 2020.
- Maria Beatriz de Bivar Weinholtz Roseiro. A Financial Health Classification of Companies using Multivariate Ordering. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and C. Palha (Tekever). October 2020.
- Inês Margarida Ribeiro de Oliveira. STE - A Survival Tree Ensemble: Application to the Prediction of Pipe Failures in Water Supply Systems. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and M. Azeitona (Baseform). December 2019.
- Bruna Alexandra Gregório Mason. Generalized Additive Model and Artificial Neural Networks for Water Demand. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and D. Loureiro (LNEC). December, 2019.
- Emanuel Seixas de Almeida e Sousa. Evaluating the Market for Electric Vehicles (EV) Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: M. Mira da Silva (DEI/IST) and C. Amado. November 2019.
- Sara Filipa Carvalho Fernandes Alves. On the Optimization of Neural Networks for Sensorimotor Coordination. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: A. Bernardino (DEEC/IST/ISR) and C. Amado. July, 2019.
- Marília Rodrigues dos Santos. Mathematical Modelling of Water Demand: Time Series Clustering and GAM models. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Supervisors: C. Amado and D. Loureiro (LNEC). July 2019.
- João Brazuna. Anomaly Detection and Classification for Streaming Data. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Dec, 2018. Supervisors: C. Amado and P. Soares.
- Ana Teresa Fernandes. Symbolic clustering and anomaly detection for business analytics. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. Dec, 2018. Supervisors: M. R. Oliveira and C. Amado.
- Ana Marques. Mathematical modeling of garden watering demand. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. July, 2018. Co-supervised by D. Loureiro (LNEC).
- Catarina Vaz. Clustering of Load Curves to Support Demand and Generation Forecast. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. November, 2017. Supervisors: C. Amado and M. Pedro (EDP).
- Joana Sousa. Analysis of pedestrian injury severity using Data Mining techniques. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. July, 2017. Supervisors: C. Amado and J. Dias (DM/IST/IDMEC).
- Manuel Goulão. Kinematic Data Filtering with Unscented Kalman Filter - Application to Senior Fitness Tests Using the Kinect Sensor. MSc in Biomedical Engineering, IST-UL, Lisbon. November, 2017. Supervisors: A. Bernardino (DEEC/IST/ISR) and C. Amado.
- Nuno Lima. Development of an Aircraft Health Monitoring Program for Predictive Maintenance. MSc in Aerospace Engineering, IST/UL. November, 2017. Supervised by P. Serrão (DM/IST), A. Leite and C. Amado.
- Kenny Santos. Powered Two Wheelers Road Accidents: Identification of Risk Factors and Development of Computational Models for Scientific Reconstruction. MSc in Mechanical Engineering, IST/UL. Supervisors: J. Dias (DM/IST/IDMEC) and C. Amado.
- Patrícia Neves. Comparação estatística de medidas de qualidade de imagem: da visualização à quantificação. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. December, 2016. Co-supervised by E. Carrasquinha (IDMEC).
- Maria Silva. Modelação da Incerteza e Deteção de Outliers para Melhoria do Diagnóstico de Perdas em Sistemas de Abastecimento de Água. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. December, 2016. Co-supervised by D. Loureiro (LNEC).
- Xavier Henriques. Implementation of data mining techniques for attitude and orbit control systems. MSc in Aerospace Engineering. IST/UL. November, 2016. Co-supervised by F. Lau (IST/UL).
- Ana Pereira. Analysis of the Claims Data of a Life Insurance Portfolio. MSc in Actuarial Science. ISEG/UL. July 2016. Co-supervised by O. Simões (ISEG-UL).
- Irís Ferreira. Modelação de Taxas de Resgate em Seguros de Vida. MSc in Actuarial Science. ISEG/UL. May 2016. Co-orientadora: Ana Maria Martins Pereira (BPI).
- Guilherme Carvalho. Data mining techniques to predict sewer condition. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon. June 2015. Co-supervised by R. Brito (LNEC).
- Rui Barrela. Data reconstruction of flow time series in water distribution networks. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon, June 2015. Co-supervised by D. Loureiro (LNEC)
- Catarina Diniz. Bootstrap Confidence Intervals on Symbolic Data Domain: A preliminary Study. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon, June 2015.
- Pedro Santos. Decision support tools for urban drainage system management . MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon, November, 2013.
- Tiago Matos. Statistical Methods for Classification of Musical Genres. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UL, Lisbon, July, 2013.
- Marta Pinto. Credit rating. A multivariate ordering question? MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UTL, Lisbon, June, 2013. Co-supervised by A. M. Pires.
- Marco Henriques. Planning and Control of Robotic Anthropomorphic Hands using Synergies. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UTL, Lisbon, June 2013. Co-supervised by A. Bernardino (DEEC/IST/ISR).
- Fábio Ivan Maia Roque dos Reis. Pedestrian detection in images: a new approach based on dimensionality reduction and outliers detection rules. (Detecção de pedestres em imagens: Uma nova abordagem baseada na redução de dimensionalidade e regras de detecção de outliers.). In Portuguese. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UTL, Lisbon, December 2011. Co-supervised by A. Bernardino (DEEC/IST/ISR).
- André Damião da Costa Martins. Stochastic models for prediction of pipe failures in water supply systems. MSc in Mathematics and Applications, IST/UTL, Lisbon, November 2011. Co-supervised by J. P. Leitão (LNEC).
- Rodrigo Borba. Statistical modelling of household night water consumption. (Modelação Estatística do Consumo Nocturno Doméstico de Água.)In Portuguese. MSc in Applied Mathematics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. November 2009.
- Raquel Escola. Obesity and childhood PHDA. (Obesidade e PHDA infantil: Modelo de Regressão Logística.) In Portuguese. MSc in Applied Mathematics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. November 2009.
- Daniela Pontes. T and F tests: robust or not is the question! In Portuguese. ( Testes t e F: Robustos ou não, eis a questão!.) MSc in Applied Mathematics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. Co-supervised by João Branco, Mathematics Department, IST.
- Sofia Raquel Cascais Ferreira Pinto. Robust Multivariate Regression. In Portuguese. (Regressão multivariada robusta.) MSc in Statistics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. Fevereiro 2009.
- Helena Maria Aleixo Pereira. Robust Methods for Linear and Non-linear Regression. In Portuguese. (Métodos Robustos para Regressão Linear e Não Linear.) MSc in Statistics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. Janeiro 2008.
- Carla Patrícia Fernandes dos Santos. Logistic Regression Model in the Study of Obesity in Portugal) Modelo de Regressão Logística no estudo da obesidade em Portugal. MSc in Mathematics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. October 2007.
- Catarina Maria Miranda de Sousa Rego. Robust Methods for finite population sampling. In Portuguese. (Métodos Robustos em Amostragem em Populações Finitas.) MSc in Mathematics IST/UTL, Lisbon. October 2007.
- Delfina Rosa Moura Barbosa, Methods for finite population sampling. In Portuguese. (Metodologias de amostragem em populações finitas.) MSc in Statistics, IST/UTL, Lisbon. July 2006.
Seminars and Communications in Scientific Meetings with no associated publication (since 2016)
- Clustering and symbolic aggregation for outlier detection in many time series - application to water consumption. DSSV2018 – Data Science Statistics & Visualisation, Wien, Austria, July 9-11 (joint work with M. Silva and D. Loureiro)
- Robust confidence intervals - a minimum distance approach. International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS 2018) Leuven, Belgium, July 2-6, 2018. Poster. (joint work with T. Risso and A.M. Pires)
- Robustness in neural networks. XXV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2018, Almada, Portugal, 5-7 April, 2018 (joint work with J. A. Branco, A. M. Pires)
- The Randomness in Space. Seminar. Department of Mathematics. University of Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires · Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Argentina, October 27, 2017 (joint work with J. Brazuna).
- Outlier detection for improved diagnosis of losses in water supply systems. XXIV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2017, Porto, Portugal, 31 March-2 April, 2017 (joint work with M. Silva and D. Loureiro)
- Statistical evaluation of image quality measures: from visualization to quantification. XXIV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2017, Porto, Portugal, 31 March-2 April, 2017 (joint work with P. Neves and E. Trigueirão)
- Propagation of Uncertainty in the Water Balance. National Meeting of the Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE), Lisboa, Portugal, 18-21 October, 2017 (join work with M. Silva and D. Loureiro)
- Robust confidence intervals using the minimum distance method. XXIII Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD 2016, Évora, 31 March-2 April, 2016, Évora, Portugal (join work with Risso, T. and Pires, A. M.)
- ANOVA - a robust approach using the Influence Function. Statistical Week 2016, 13-16 September, Augsburg, Germany, Invited Speaker. (joint work with J. A. Branco, A. M. Pires).
Organization of conferences (desde 2016)
- XXVI Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2019, Viseu, Portugal, 11-13 April, 2019. (Chair of the Scientific Committee). http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2019/pt/joclad2019/organizacao
- XXV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2018, Almada, Portugal, 5-7 April, 2018. (Member of the Scientific Committee). http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2018/pt/joclad2018/organizacao
- DSSV2017-Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation, Lisbon, 12-14 July 2017. (Member of the Organizing Committee). http://iasc-isi.org/dssv2017/committees/local-organizing-committee/
- XXIII Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística, Lisboa, Portugal, 18-21 October, 2017. (Member of the Scientific Committee). http://spe2017.iscte-iul.pt/
- XXIV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2017, Porto, Portugal, 20-22 April, 2017. (Member of the Scientific Committee). http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2017/pt/joclad2017/organizacao
- XXIII Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2016, Évora, Portugal, 31 March-2 April, 2016. (Member of the Scientific Committee). http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2017/pt/joclad2017/organizacao
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