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Pedro Machado received his MSc in Electrical and Computers Engineering from the University of Coimbra (2012) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nottingham Trent University (2022). Dr Machado is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Course Leader for MSc Artificial Intelligence, first secretary for the IEEE Systemic Innovation Special Interest Group (SISIG) and the Events Coordinator for the BCS Nottingham and Derby branch. Dr Machado’s research interests includes neuromorphic engineering, edge computer vision, bio-inspired computing, robotics and intelligent sensors, retinal cell understanding, biological nervous system modelling, spiking neural networks, robotics and autonomous systems, and neuromorphic hardware, aquaculture, endangered/invasive underwater species.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Machado

Citation names

  • Machado, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3D12-0C37-6257
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1760-3871

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+44) 7505841679 (Personal)

Addresses

  • MAE212, Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University, NG11 8NS, Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/02/01 - 2021/07/31
Ongoing
 Computer science (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Computer Science
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
"Computational Models of the Retina on Neuromorphic Hardware" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/09/24
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Computadores
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"InerTouchHand" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/10/01 - 2020/06/30 Research Assistant (Research) Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
2013/08/01 - 2014/09/30 Research Assistant (Research) Ulster University, United Kingdom
Ulster University, United Kingdom
2012/11/01 - 2013/07/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2012/01/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento em Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento em Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009/07/01 - 2009/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/07/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/07/01 - Current Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, United Kingdom
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/11 - 2021/04 Autonomous Robotic InSpEction (ARISE)
105607
 Innovate UK
2018/06 - 2020/12 FieldCompanion
600359
 Innovate UK
2020/05 - 2020/11 ARISE - II - Continuity Grant
73079
 Innovate UK
2016/12 - 2020/11 Intelligent decision from vineyard robots
737669
 European Commission
2013/04 - 2016/09 Emulating the C. elegans nervous system: A blueprint for brain-inspired computational architectures
601215
 European Commission
2009/02 - 2013/01 Developmental pathway towards autonomy and dexterity in robot in-hand manipulation
231640
 European Commission
2009/08 - 2011/11 An Innovative RFID Security SEAL for Aircraft Galley Trolleys
231171
 European Commission
2007/01 - 2009/12 Intelligent Robotic Porter System
045048
 European Commission
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Blau, A.; Callaly, F.; Cawley, S.; Coffey, A.; De Mauro, A.; Epelde, G.; Ferrara, L.; et al. The Si elegans project - The challenges and prospects of emulating Caenorhabditis elegans. 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_54
Book chapter
  1. Pedro Machado; Georgina Cosma; T. Martin McGinnity. "NatCSNN: A Convolutional Spiking Neural Network for Recognition of Objects Extracted from Natural Images". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-30487-4_28
Conference paper
  1. Patrick Kelly; David Ada Adama; Isibor Kennedy Ihianle; Pedro Machado; Richard I. Otuka. "Exploring the Role of Fear in Human Decision Making". 2023.
    10.1145/3594806.3596590
  2. Machado, P.; Appiah, K.; McGinnity, T.M.; Wade, J.. "Si elegans: Hardware architecture and communications protocol". 2015.
    10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280771
  3. Machado, P.; Wade, J.; McGinnity, T.M.. "Si elegans: Computational modelling of C. elegans nematode nervous system using FPGAs". 2014.
  4. Machado, P.; Wade, J.; McGinnity, T.M.. "Si elegans: FPGA hardware emulation of C. elegans nematode nervous system". 2014.
    10.1109/NaBIC.2014.6921855
  5. Blau, A.; Callaly, F.; Cawley, S.; Coffey, A.; De Mauro, A.; Epelde, G.; Ferrara, L.; et al. "Exploring neural principles with si elegans, a neuromimetic representation of the nematode caenorhabditis elegans". 2014.
Journal article
  1. João Filipe Ferreira; David Portugal; Maria Eduarda Andrada; Pedro Machado; Rui P. Rocha; Paulo Peixoto. "Sensing and Artificial Perception for Robots in Precision Forestry: A Survey". Robotics (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12050139.
    10.3390/robotics12050139
  2. Pedro Machado; João Filipe Ferreira; Andreas Oikonomou; T. M. McGinnity. "NeuroHSMD: Neuromorphic Hybrid Spiking Motion Detector". ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (2023): https://doi.org/10.1145/3588318.
    10.1145/3588318
  3. Nicholas Murray-Hill; Laura Fontes; Pedro Machado; Isibor Kennedy Ihianle. "Secure Video Streaming Using Dedicated Hardware". Journal of Signal Processing Systems (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-023-01886-4.
    10.1007/s11265-023-01886-4
  4. Sandro Costa Magalhães; Filipe Neves dos Santos; Pedro Machado; António Paulo Moreira; Jorge Dias. "Benchmarking edge computing devices for grape bunches and trunks detection using accelerated object detection single shot multibox deep learning models". Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105604.
    10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105604
  5. "HSMD: An object motion detection algorithm using a Hybrid Spiking Neural Network Architecture". IEEE Access (2021): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3111005.
    10.1109/access.2021.3111005
  6. Zheqi Yu; Pedro Machado; Adnan Zahid; Amir M. Abdulghani; Kia Dashtipour; Hadi Heidari; Muhammad A. Imran; Qammer H. Abbasi. "Energy and Performance Trade-Off Optimization in Heterogeneous Computing via Reinforcement Learning". Electronics 9 11 (2020): 1812-1812. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9111812.
    10.3390/electronics9111812
  7. Alicia Costalago-Meruelo; Pedro Machado; Kofi Appiah; Andoni Mujika; Peter Leskovsky; Roberto Alvarez; Gorka Epelde; T.M. McGinnity. "Emulation of chemical stimulus triggered head movement in the C. elegans nematode". Neurocomputing 290 (2018): 60-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2018.02.024.
    10.1016/j.neucom.2018.02.024
Preprint
  1. "Object recognition for robotics from tactile time series data utilising different neural network architectures". 2021.

Other

Dataset
  1. Strawberry dataset for Semantic Segmentation.
    10.5281/ZENODO.6656332
Other output
  1. WTS-FT ROS package. 2019. Machado, Pedro. https://zenodo.org/record/3529664.
    10.5281/ZENODO.3529664
  2. BioTac SP ROS stack. 2019. Machado, Pedro. https://zenodo.org/record/3529376.
    10.5281/ZENODO.3529376
  3. Sawyer grasping project. 2019. Machado, Pedro. https://zenodo.org/record/3529784.
    10.5281/ZENODO.3529784
  4. Object Detection. 2019. Machado, Pedro. https://zenodo.org/record/3529770.
    10.5281/ZENODO.3529770
  5. InerTouchHand. 2012. Machado, Pedro; Trindade, Pedro; Lobo, Jorge.