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Dr. Lucas Pereira earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Madeira, Portugal, in 2016. Since then, he has been at ITI/LARSyS, leading the Future Energy research line. Since 2019, Lucas has been an Assistant Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. His research endeavors encompass the realms of data science, machine learning, and human-computer interaction, strategically aimed at bridging the divide between laboratory-based innovations and their real-world applications for sustainable development goals (SDGs). With a particular focus on future energy systems and sustainable built environments, his work often involves the practical deployment and assessment of monitoring technologies and software systems. Dr. Pereira has authored over 35 articles in reputable journals and presented numerous papers at conferences. Currently, he oversees the research efforts of six PhD theses while also serving as a co-supervisor for two others. Moreover, he has guided 18 MSc Dissertations. In 2022, Dr. Pereira was recognized as one of the top 2% most cited researchers according to the Stanford University Ranking. Dr. Pereira is the Principal Investigator of the ALAMO (Accurate Federated Learning with Uncertainty Quantification for DER Forecasting Applied to Smart Grids Planning and Operation) project, funded under the MIT-Portugal program. He is also the Principal Investigator of the SHIFT2DC (Shift to Direct Current) project, funded under the Horizon Europe framework program.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Amâncio Lucas de Sousa Pereira
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Pereira, Lucas
  • Lucas Pereira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
421F-7B0E-8647
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9110-8775
Google Scholar ID
ZBvNgMsAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • lucas.pereira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
  • lucas.pereira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/10/01 - 2016/12/31
Concluded
 Informatics Engineering (Doutoramento)
Major in Software Engineering
Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
"Hardware and Software Platforms for Deploying and Evaluation Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Systems¿" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/10/01 - 2011/11/30
Concluded
 Informatics Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
"Low Cost Non-Intrusive Home Energy Monitoring¿" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2001/10/01 - 2007/07/31
Concluded
 Informatics Engineering (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
"Fox - Visual Business Intelligence for the Web 2.0" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2019/03/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
2015/10/22 - 2016/04/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Carnegie Mellon University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United States
2011/09/01 - 2012/03/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2007/12/01 - 2010/01/31 Especialista Informática Grau 1 Nível 1 (Especialista de informática) Câmara Municipal de Câmara de Lobos, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/06/01 - 2019/03/31 Data Science Lead Prsma.com (BrightCuriosity Lda.), Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/12/01 - Current SHIFT2DC - Shift to Direct Current
101136131
Principal investigator
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
2024/01/01 - Current ALAMO - Accurate Federated Learning with Uncertainty Quantification for DER Forecasting Applied to Power Grids Planning and Operation
2022.15771.MIT
Principal investigator
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - Current InnoCyPES - Innovative Tools for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
956433
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 European Commission
2022/01/01 - 2023/12/31 nexIK: Exploring the Human-Water-Energy Nexus in Industrial Kitchens
EXPL/CCI-COM/1234/2021
10.54499/EXPL/CCI-COM/1234/2021
Principal investigator
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/05 - 2021/04 SMart IsLand Energy systems
grant.731249
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018/10/15 - 2019/03/31 Future Industrial Kitchen
M1420-01-0247-FEDER-000018
Post-doc
Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 LARSyS - Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia
LA/P/0083/2020
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/04/01 - 2025/03/31 Assessing Performance of NILM Technology and the Value Proposition of Disaggregated Data through Controlled Deployments in Real-World Domestic Environments
CEECIND/01179/2017/CP1461/CT0020
10.54499/CEECIND/01179/2017/CP1461/CT0020
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems
UIDP/50009/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50009/2020
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia
UID/EEA/50009/2019
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Filipe Quintal; Mary Barreto; Nuno Nunes; Valentina Nisi; Lucas Pereira (421F-7B0E-8647). "WattsBurning on my mailbox: A tangible art inspired eco-feedback visualization for sharing energy consumption". In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_10
  2. Filipe Quintal; Lucas Pereira (421F-7B0E-8647); Nuno Nunes; Valentina Nisi; Mary Barreto. "WATTSBurning: Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Eco-Feedback System". In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-40483-2_32
  3. Filipe Quintal; Valentina Nisi; Nuno Nunes; Mary Barreto; Lucas Pereira. "HomeTree – An Art Inspired Mobile Eco-feedback Visualization". In Advances in Computer Entertainment, 545-548. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-34292-9_55
Conference paper
  1. Andrés Isaza-Giraldo; Paulo Bala; Pedro F. Campos; Lucas Pereira. "Prompt-Gaming: A Pilot Study on LLM-Evaluating Agent in a Meaningful Energy Game". 2024.
    10.1145/3613905.3650774
  2. Francisco Santos Fialho; Sabrina Scuri; Lucas Pereira; Nuno Jardim Nunes. "Virtual Assistants for Energy Efficiency: Real World Tryouts". 2023.
    10.1145/3582515.3609548
  3. Lucas Pereira; Jonathan Cavaleiro; Hugo Morais. "Understanding the Role of Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage in a Snack Bar: A Case Study in Madeira Island". 2023.
    10.1109/indin51400.2023.10218295
  4. Ana Oliveira; Miriam Ribeiro; Ricardo Martins; Gonçalo de Morais; Morais, Hugo Gabriel Valente; Lucas Pereira. Corresponding author: Lucas Pereira. "On The Role Of Industrial Kitchens In Sustainable Energy Systems: The nexIK Vision". Paper presented in International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, Rome, 2023.
    Accepted
  5. Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira. "Applying Symmetrical Component Transform for Industrial Appliance Classification in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring". 2023.
    10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10096324
  6. Andrés Isaza; Pereira, Manuel; Rafael Candeias; Lucas Pereira. Corresponding author: Andrés Isaza. "Satellite Dataset Visual Analysis for Remote Soil Nutrient Estimation". Paper presented in International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability 2023, Leiria, 2023.
    Published
  7. Marco Manolo Manca; Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira. "Appliance recognition with combined single- and multi-label approaches". 2022.
    10.1145/3563357.3566153
  8. Velosa, Nuno; Pereira, Lucas. "Towards Pro-Social Load Balancing in Energy Communities". Coimbra, 2021.
    Published • 10.1145/3486611.3492235
  9. Faustine, Anthony; Pereira, Lucas; Bousbiat, Hafsa; Kulkarni, Shridhar. "UNet-NILM: A Deep Neural Network for Multi-tasks Appliances State Detection and Power Estimation in NILM". Paper presented in 5th International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, Online, 2020.
    Published • 10.1145/3427771.3427859
  10. Gois, João; Klemenjak, Christoph; Pereira, Lucas. "On the Relationship between Seasons of the Year and Disaggregation Performance". Paper presented in 5th International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, Online, 2020.
    10.1145/3427771.3427856
  11. Lucas Pereira. "Energy Storage Optimization for Grid Reliability". 2020.
    10.1145/3396851.3402123
  12. Luísa Barros; Mary Barreto; Lucas Pereira. "Understanding the challenges behind Electric Vehicle adoption by drivers - a case study in the Madeira Autonomous Region". Paper presented in ICT4S 2020, Bristol, 2020.
    Accepted • 10.31219/osf.io/z6h23
  13. Hashmi, Md Umar; Cavaleiro, Jonathan; Pereira, Lucas; Busic, Ana. "Sizing and Profitability of Energy Storage for Prosumers in Madeira, Portugal". Paper presented in 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington, DC, 2020.
    Published • 10.1109/isgt45199.2020.9087772
  14. Md Umar Hashmi; Deepjyoti Deka; Ana Bušic; Lucas Pereira; Scott Backhaus. "Co-optimizing Energy Storage for Prosumers using Convex Relaxations". Paper presented in ISAP 2019, New Delhi, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/isap48318.2019.9065984
  15. Klemenjak, Christoph; Reinhardt, Andreas; Pereira, Lucas; Makonin, Stephen; Bergés, Mario; Elmenreich, Wilfried. "Electricity Consumption Data Sets". Paper presented in BuildSys 2019, New York, NY, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3360322.3360867
  16. Fábio Vasconcelos; Vitor Aguiar; Lucas Pereira. "Ultrasonic waste monitoring in the future industrial kitchen". Paper presented in Sensys 2019, New York, NY, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3356250.3361960
  17. Pereira, Lucas; Aguiar, Vitor; Vasconcelos, Fábio. "Future Industrial Kitchen: Challenges and Opportunities". Paper presented in BuildSys 2019, New York, NY, 2019.
  18. Lucas Pereira; Jonathan Cavaleiro. "On the Value Proposition of Battery Energy Storage in Self-Consumption Only Scenarios: A Case-Study in Madeira Island". Paper presented in IECON 2019, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/iecon.2019.8926657
  19. Md Umar Hashmi; Lucas Pereira; Ana Bušic. "Energy storage in Madeira, Portugal: co-optimizing for arbitrage, self-sufficiency, peak shaving and energy backup". Paper presented in PowerTech 2019, Milan, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/ptc.2019.8810531
  20. Mary Barreto; Lucas Pereira; Filipe Quintal. "The Acceptance of energy monitoring technologies: the case of local prosumers". Paper presented in ICT4S 2019, Lappeenranta, 2019.
    Published
  21. Pereira, Lucas. "A Mouse (H)Over a Hotspot Survey: An Exploration of Patterns of Hesitation through Cursor Movement Metrics". Paper presented in CHI 2019, Glasgow, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3290607.3312956
  22. Filipe Quintal; Sabrina Scuri; Mary Barreto; Lucas Pereira; Dino Vasconcelos; Daniel Pestana. "MyTukxi: Low Cost Smart Charging for Small Scale EVs". Paper presented in CHI 2019, Glasgow, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3290607.3312874
  23. Luísa Barros; Lucas Pereira; Parakram Pyakurel. "On the Challenges of Charging Electric Vehicles in Domestic Environments". Paper presented in e-Energy 2018, Karlsruhe, 2018.
    Published • 10.1145/3208903.3212045
  24. Lucas Pereira; Rodolfo Gonçalves; Filipe Quintal; Nuno Nunes. "Data Storage and Maintenance Challenges: The Case of Advanced Metering Infrastructure Systems". Paper presented in ICT4S 2018, Toronto, 2018.
    Published • 10.29007/x6sn
  25. Lucas Pereira; Miguel Ribeiro; Nuno Nunes. "Engineering and deploying a hardware and software platform to collect and label non-intrusive load monitoring datasets". Paper presented in SustainIT 2017, Funchal, 2017.
    Published • 10.23919/sustainit.2017.8379796
  26. Pereira, Lucas. "Developing and evaluating a probabilistic event detector for non-intrusive load monitoring". Paper presented in SustainIT 2017, Funchal, 2017.
    10.23919/SustainIT.2017.8379796
  27. Pereira, Lucas; Chisik, Yoram. "A mouse over a hotspot survey: An exploration of perceptions of electricity consumption and patterns of indecision". Paper presented in SustainIT 2017, 2017.
    10.23919/SustainIT.2017.8379808
  28. Lucas Pereira. "EMD-DF: a data model and file format for energy disaggregation datasets". Paper presented in BuildSys 2017, Delft, 2017.
    Published • 10.1145/3137133.3141474
  29. Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes. "A comparison of performance metrics for event classification in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring". Paper presented in SmartGridComm, Dresden, 2017.
    Published • 10.1109/smartgridcomm.2017.8340682
  30. Lucas Pereira; Miguel Ribeiro; Filipe Quintal; Nuno Nunes. "SustDataED: A Public Dataset for Electric Energy Disaggregation Research". Paper presented in ICT4S 2016, Amsterdam, 2016.
    Published • 10.2991/ict4s-16.2016.36
  31. Nuno Nunes; Lucas Pereira; Valentina Nisi. "Towards using Low-Cost Opportunistic Energy Sensing for Promoting Energy Conservation". Paper presented in INTERACT 2015, Bamberg, 2015.
    Published
  32. Pereira, L.; Nunes, N.J.. "Towards systematic performance evaluation of non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms and systems". Paper presented in SustainIT 2015, Madrid, 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101373
  33. Filipe Quintal; Lucas Pereira; Clinton Jorge; Nuno Nunes. "EnerSpectrum: Exposing the source of energy through plug-level eco-feedack". Paper presented in SustainIT 2015, Madrid, 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101379
  34. Pereira, L.; Nunes, N.J.. "Semi-automatic labeling for public non-intrusive load monitoring datasets". Paper presented in SustainIT 2015, Madrid, 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101378
  35. Quintal, F.; Pereira, L.; Nunes, N.J.; Nisi, V.. "What-a-Watt: Exploring electricity production literacy through a long term eco-feedback study". Paper presented in SustainIT 2015, Madrid, 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/SustainIT.2015.7101365
  36. Pereira, L.; Quintal, F.; Gonçalves, R.; Nunes, N.J.. "SustData: A public dataset for ICT4S electric energy research". Paper presented in ICT4S 2014, Stockholm, 2014.
    Published • 10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.44
  37. Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes; Mario Bergés. "SURF and SURF-PI: A file format and API for non-intrusive load monitoring public datasets". Paper presented in e-Energy 2014, Cambridge, 2014.
    Published • 10.1145/2602044.2602078
  38. Lucas Pereira. "Towards Automating the Performance Evaluation of Non- Intrusive Load Monitoring Systems". Paper presented in ICT4S 2013, Zurich, 2013.
    Published
  39. Lucas Pereira; Filipe Quintal; Nuno Nunes; Mario Bergés. "The design of a hardware-software platform for long-term energy eco-feedback research". Paper presented in EICS 2012, Copenhagen, 2012.
    Published • 10.1145/2305484.2305521
  40. Filipe Quintal; Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes. "A long-term study of energy eco-feedback using non-intrusive load monitoring". Paper presented in Persuasive 2012, Linköping, 2012.
    Published
  41. Leandro Gouveia; Lucas Pereira; Michelle Scott; Ian Oakley. "Eco-Avatars: Visualizing Disaggregated Home Energy Use". Paper presented in DIS 2012, Newcastle, 2012.
    Accepted
  42. Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes. "Low cost framework for non-intrusive home energy monitoring and research". Paper presented in SMARTGREENS 2012, Porto, 2012.
    Published • 10.5220/0003950701910196
  43. Nuno Nunes; Lucas Pereira; Filipe Quintal; Mario Bergés. "Deploying and evaluating the effectiveness of energy eco-feedback through a low-cost NILM solution". Paper presented in Persuasive 2011, Columbus, OH, 2011.
    Published
  44. Pedro Campos; Filipe Sousa; Lucas Pereira; Carlos Perestrelo; Duarte Freitas. "Cross-media user interfaces for controlling the enterprise : The eagle integrated system". Paper presented in ICEIS 2017, Funchal, 2007.
    Published • 10.5220/0002370101290135
Journal article
  1. Eduardo Gomes; Lucas Pereira; Augusto Esteves; H. Morais. "Metaheuristic Optimization Methods in Energy Community Scheduling: A Benchmark Study". Energies (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/12/2968.
    10.3390/en17122968
  2. Vasco Andrade; Hugo Morais; Lucas Pereira. "Industrial kitchen appliance consumption forecasting: Hour-ahead and day-ahead perspectives with post-processing improvements". Computers and Electrical Engineering (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.109145.
    10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.109145
  3. Eduardo Gomes; Lucas Pereira; Augusto Esteves; Hugo Morais. "PyECOM: A Python tool for analyzing and simulating Energy Communities". SoftwareX (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101580.
    10.1016/j.softx.2023.101580
  4. Lucas Pereira; Vitor Aguiar; Fábio Vasconcelos; Ricardo Martins; Toni Garcês; Hugo Morais. "FIKElectricity: A Electricity Consumption Dataset from Three Restaurant Kitchens in Portugal". Scientific Data (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02698-8.
    10.1038/s41597-023-02698-8
  5. Joaquim Perez; Filipe Quintal; Lucas Pereira. "Distributed Platform for Offline and Online EV Charging Simulation". Electronics (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12214401.
    10.3390/electronics12214401
  6. Nuno Velosa; Eduardo Gomes; Hugo Morais; Lucas Pereira. "PROCSIM: An Open-Source Simulator to Generate Energy Community Power Demand and Generation Scenarios". Energies (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041611.
    10.3390/en16041611
  7. Andressa Pedro; Mikolaj Krutnik; Van Malcolm Yadack; Lucas Pereira; H. Morais. "Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets". Utilities Policy 80 (2023): 101477-101477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2022.101477.
    10.1016/j.jup.2022.101477
  8. Mikolaj Krutnik; Andressa Pedro; Van Malcolm Yadack; Hugo Morais; Lucas Pereira. "On the Potential of Tertiary Espresso Machines to Provide Frequency Containment Reserves Services". IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2023.3323823.
    10.1109/TCE.2023.3323823
  9. João Góis; Lucas Pereira. "ANR: A New Metric to Quantify the Appliance to Noise Ratio in Load Disaggregation Datasets". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2023): https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2023.3311066.
    10.1109/TIM.2023.3311066
  10. Jorge Amantegui; Hugo Morais; Lucas Pereira. "Benchmark of Electricity Consumption Forecasting Methodologies Applied to Industrial Kitchens". Buildings (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122231.
    10.3390/buildings12122231
  11. Lucas Pereira; Donovan Costa; Miguel Ribeiro. "A residential labeled dataset for smart meter data analytics". Scientific Data 9 1 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01252-2.
    10.1038/s41597-022-01252-2
  12. João Góis; Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes. "A Data-Centric Analysis of the Impact of Non-Electric Data on the Performance of Load Disaggregation Algorithms". Sensors (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186914.
    10.3390/s22186914
  13. Zita Abreu; Lucas Pereira. "Privacy protection in smart meters using homomorphic encryption: An overview". WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1469.
    10.1002/widm.1469
  14. Pereira, Lucas; Velosa, Nuno; Pereira, Manuel. Corresponding author: Pereira, Lucas. "A data model and file format to represent and store high frequency energy monitoring and disaggregation datasets". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14517-y.
    10.1038/s41598-022-14517-y
  15. Luis Gomes; Hugo Morais; Calvin Gonçalves; Eduardo Gomes; Lucas Pereira; Zita Vale. "Impact of Forecasting Models Errors in a Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing Market". Energies 15 10 (2022): 3543-3543. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15103543.
    10.3390/en15103543
  16. Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira. "FPSeq2Q: Fully Parameterized Sequence to Quantile Regression for Net-Load Forecasting With Uncertainty Estimates". IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 13 3 (2022): 2440-2451. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2022.3148699.
    10.1109/TSG.2022.3148699
  17. João Góis; Lucas Pereira. "A novel methodology for identifying appliance usage patterns in buildings based on auto-correlation and probability distribution analysis". Energy and Buildings 256 (2022): 111618-111618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111618.
    10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111618
  18. Hafsa Bousbiat; Anthony Faustine; Christoph Klemenjak; Lucas Pereira; Wilfried Elmenreich. "Unlocking the Full Potential of Neural NILM: On Automation, Hyperparameters & Modular Pipelines". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3206322.
    10.1109/TII.2022.3206322
  19. Filipe Quintal; Daniel Garigali; Dino Vasconcelos; Jonathan Cavaleiro; Wilson Santos; Lucas Pereira. "Energy Monitoring in the Wild: Platform Development and Lessons Learned from a Real-World Demonstrator". Energies (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/18/5786.
    10.3390/en14185786
  20. Andreas Reinhardt; Lucas Pereira. "Special Issue: “Energy Data Analytics for Smart Meter Data”". Energies (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175376.
    10.3390/en14175376
  21. Lucas Pereira; Vitor Aguiar; Fábio Vasconcelos. "FIKWater: A Water Consumption Dataset from Three Restaurant Kitchens in Portugal". Data (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/6/3/26.
    10.3390/data6030026
  22. Lucas Pereira; Vitor Aguiar; Fábio Vasconcelos. "FIKWaste: A Waste Generation Dataset from Three Restaurant Kitchens in Portugal". Data (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/6/3/25.
    10.3390/data6030025
  23. Benjamin Völker; Andreas Reinhardt; Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira. "Watt's up at Home? Smart Meter Data Analytics from a Consumer-Centric Perspective". Energies 14 3 (2021): 719-719. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030719.
    Open access • 10.3390/en14030719
  24. Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira; Christoph Klemenjak. "Adaptive Weighted Recurrence Graphs for Appliance Recognition in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring". IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 12 1 (2021): 398-406. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2020.3010621.
    10.1109/TSG.2020.3010621
  25. Morgado-Dias, Fernando; Pereira, Lucas; Mata-Lima, Herlander. "Editorial - Energy and Sustainability in Small Developing Economies 19 - Selected papers". Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology 10 6 (2020): 1117-1117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2040.
    10.1002/ghg.2040
  26. Lucas Pereira. "An empirical exploration of performance metrics for event detection algorithms in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring". Sustainable Cities and Society (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102399.
    10.1016/j.scs.2020.102399
  27. Lucas Pereira; Jonathan Cavaleiro; Luísa Barros. "Economic Assessment of Solar-Powered Residential Battery Energy Storage Systems: The Case of Madeira Island, Portugal". Applied Sciences 10 20 (2020): 7366-7366. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10207366.
    10.3390/app10207366
  28. Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira. "Multi-Label Learning for Appliance Recognition in NILM Using Fryze-Current Decomposition and Convolutional Neural Network". Energies (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13164154.
    10.3390/en13164154
  29. Anthony Faustine; Lucas Pereira. "Improved Appliance Classification in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Weighted Recurrence Graph and Convolutional Neural Networks". Energies 13 13 (2020): 3374-3374. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13133374.
    10.3390/en13133374
  30. Eduardo Gomes; Lucas Pereira. "PB-NILM: Pinball Guided Deep Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring". IEEE Access 8 (2020): 48386-48398. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2978513.
    Open access • Published • 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2978513
  31. Md Umar Hashmi; Deepjyoti Deka; Ana Busic; Lucas Pereira; Scott Backhaus. "Arbitrage with Power Factor Correction using Energy Storage". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2020): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2020.2969978.
    Published • 10.1109/tpwrs.2020.2969978
  32. Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes. "Understanding the practical issues of deploying energy monitoring and eco-feedback technology in the wild: Lesson learned from three long-term deployments". Energy Reports (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2019.11.025.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.egyr.2019.11.025
  33. Lucas Pereira. "NILMPEds: A Performance Evaluation Dataset for Event Detection Algorithms in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring". Data 4 3 (2019): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/data4030127.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/data4030127
  34. Manuel Pereira; Nuno Velosa; Lucas Pereira. "dsCleaner: A Python Library to Clean, Preprocess and Convert Non-Instrusive Load Monitoring Datasets". Data 4 3 (2019): 123-123. https://doi.org/10.3390/data4030123.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/data4030123
  35. Roham Torabi; Sandy Rodrigues; Nuno Cafôfo; Lucas Pereira; Filipe Quintal; Nuno Nunes; Fernando Morgado-Dias. "A global monitoring system for electricity consumption and production of household roof-top PV systems in Madeira". Neural Computing and Applications (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3832-3.
    Published • 10.1007/s00521-018-3832-3
  36. Lucas Pereira; Nuno Nunes. "Performance evaluation in non-intrusive load monitoring: Datasets, metrics, and tools—A review". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/widm.1265.
    Open access • Published • 10.1002/widm.1265
  37. Dario Baptista; Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa; Lucas Pereira; Leonel Sousa; Fernando Morgado Dias. "Implementation Strategy of Convolution Neural Networks on Field Programmable Gate Arrays for Appliance Classification Using the Voltage and Current (V-I) Trajectory". Energies (2018): http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/9/2460.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/en11092460
  38. Mary Barreto; Agnieszka Szostek; Evangelos Karapanos; Nuno Nunes; Lucas Pereira; Filipe Quintal. "Understanding families' motivations for sustainable behaviors". Computers in Human Behavior 40 (2014): 6-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.042.
    Published • 10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.042
  39. Michelle Scott; Lucas Pereira; Ian Oakley. "Show Me or Tell Me: Designing Avatars for Feedback". Interacting with Computers 27 4 (2014): 458-469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwu008.
    Published • 10.1093/iwc/iwu008
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pereira, Lucas. "Hardware and software platforms to deploy and evaluate non-intrusive load monitoring systems". PhD, Universidade da Madeira, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1501.
  2. Pereira, Lucas. "Low cost non-intrusive home energy monitoring". Master, Universidade da Madeira, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/581.

Other

Spin-off company
  1. 2015. BrightCuriosity Lda (prsma.com). Smart Energy Systems, Data Science. prsma.com.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Federated Learning Forecasting Algorithms Applied to Distributed Energy Resources
Supervisor
 Data Science and Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current Human-Computer Interaction aspects in Pro-social Engineering for Game Design for Renewable Energy Communities
Supervisor
 Informatics Engineering (PhD)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current ORCHESTRA - Optimized Routing and CHarging of Electric vehicles using Satellite and TRAffic Information.
Supervisor
 Computer Science and Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current SHINING - Modeling of SHared electric mobility IN smart cities using multi-agent reinforcement learnING
Supervisor
 Computer Science and Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09/01 - Current Large Scale Data Management and Integration in Energy Systems
Co-supervisor
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - Current Scenarios generation tool for Social Energy Communities
Co-supervisor
 Energy Engineering and Management (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - Current Semi-Supervised Learning Applied to Soil Nutrient Estimation Using Earth Observation Data
Supervisor
 Computer Science and Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/10/01 - Current MARLEC: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Applications in Energy Communities
Supervisor
 Computer Science and Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/02/01 - Current Robust Machine Learning Algorithms for Future Energy Systems
Supervisor
 Computer Science and Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/02 - Current On the Relationship Between Similarity Measures and Complexity in Energy Disaggregation
Supervisor of João Góis
 Computer Science and Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Forecast of Electrical Consumption in Industrial Kitchens
Co-supervisor
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Data-Driven Approach to Predict the Consumption of Electrical Energy in Residencies Using Multiple Scopes of Non-Electric Data
Supervisor
 Computer Science and Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Industrial Kitchens - Load Modelling of Industrial Kitchen Devices
Co-supervisor
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Industrial Kitchens: Energy efficiency and management
Co-supervisor
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Machine Learning Applications in Industrial Kitchens: Data Acquisition and Data-Driven Water-Energy-Food Nexus Modelling
Supervisor
 Data Science and Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Battery Energy Storage System to Provide Grid Services
Co-supervisor
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2022 On the Potential of RES and Storage Devices in the Context of Restaurant Kitchens
Supervisor
 Energy Engineering and Management (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/10 - 2022 PROCSIM: An energy community simulator to develop and evaluate load balancing schemes
Supervisor
 Computer Science (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2020/10 - 2022 TerraSenseTK: A toolkit for remote soil nutrient estimation
Supervisor
 Computer Science (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Participation of prosumers in peer-to-peer negotiation in Energy Communities
Co-supervisor
 Energy Engineering and Management (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/10 - 2020/09 Energy Services for the Food Industry.
Supervisor
 Energy Management and Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2020 Electric Vehicle Smart Charging
Co-supervisor
 Electronics Engineering (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Assessing the Value Proposition of Disaggregated Electricity Consumption Data through Real-World Deployments
Supervisor
 Energy Engineering and Management (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2013 - 2015 OpenDataHub: An Open Dataset Management System
Co-supervisor
 Informatics Engineering (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/02/16 Sensors and Wearable-based activity recognition and behaviour analysis for Users' quality of life improvement
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francesca Marcello (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
2023 DEEPDFML-NILM: A Deep Learning-Based Model for Detection, Feature Extraction and Classification in NILM Signals
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Lucas Nolasco (Master)
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
2023 Energy Communities: Military Academy Use Case
(Thesis) Main arguer
 José Saramago (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 Microgrids – Impact on the development of rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rafael Sardinha (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 PowerShare - AI Energy Sensor Interface for Google Home/Assistant
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisco Fialho (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 Management of Autonomous Electric Vehicles in Parking Lots
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Guillermo Lopez (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/01 Improving Machine Learning Prediction and Forecasting Models Used in Photovoltaic Monitoring Systems
(Thesis) Arguer
 Sandry Abreu (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/01 Signal Processing Approaches for Sleep Quality Analysis in Suspected Sleep Disorder Patients
(Thesis) Arguer
 Fábio Rúben Silva Mendonça (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 Hierarchical Energy Management System in Car Parks
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Duarte Silva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 User Emotional Interaction Processor: A tool to support the development of GUIs through physiological user monitoring
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Duarte Pinto (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 Development and Analysis of an Open-source Platform to Simulate Electric Vehicle Charging Needs
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joaquim Perez (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2021 User Chat Clustering Using Deep Learning Representations and Unsupervised Methods for Dialog System Applications
(Thesis) Main arguer
 André Moura (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2020/12 Small Flexibility-based Frequency Containment Reserves - Opportunities in the European Union and Case Study
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Andressa Bade (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/11 User Interfaces and Methods for Visual Search in Images
(Thesis) Arguer
 Diogo Cruz (Master)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2018 Best Oral Presentation - International NILM Workshop ($250)
Pecan Street Inc, United States

Other distinction

2023 World Top 2% Most Cited Researcher 2022
2021 Wires Data Mining And Knowledge Discovery Top Cited Articles 2020
John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States
2018 Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEECIND/01179/2017)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 SME Instrument Phase 2 with BrightCuriosity LDA. (seal of excellence)
2015 SME Instrument Phase 1 with BrightCuriosity LDA. (~75k Euros)
2014 Travel Grant for ACM E-Energy 2018 (500 $US)
IBM Research, United States
2011 Individual Doctoral Grant (SFRH/DB/77856/2011)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal