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Susana Brás is a researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has a background in Applied Mathematics, with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, and she completed a postdoctoral research in Computer Sciences mainly focused on the data science field. Her main research goal is the development of environments adapted to the person, to accomplish such goal she studied models able to quantitatively describe patterns, mainly focused on parameter free data mining, information theory models and machine learning. Until now, she was dedicated in study the person and his/her reactions to society and specific situations (affective computing). Notwithstanding, she is now also interested in study the environment where the person is inserted to adjust the context to the person's needs to achieve a better life quality. The description of such context will lead to constraints associated to class imbalance, noise, artifacts and missing values, topics already in study by her research team. She supervised several master and Ph.D. students. She has 49 scientific publications (indexed in Scopus) in renowned peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and 224 citations (Scopus). She gave several invited talks in diverse contexts and interviews in general media.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Susana Manuela Martinho dos Santos Baía Brás

Citation names

  • Brás, Susana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AF11-D232-B5B7
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8650-9219
Scopus Author Id
23974223300

Email addresses

  • susana.bras@ua.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 234370500 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Informática de Aveiro (IEETA). IEETA, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Other Engineering and Technologies
Education
Degree Classification
2007/01/01 - 2010/12/21
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Automation in Veterinary Anesthesia: Modeling and Control" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimously approved with distinction
2001 - 2005
Concluded
 Matemática Aplicada à Tecnologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Processamento e Modelação de Sinais Biomédicos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15.4
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10 - Current Treasurer Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Portugal
2022/11 - 2023/10 Relator of the fiscal council at APRP Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/10 Secretary of the Fiscal Council Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Portugal
2014/12/03 - 2019/05/22 Advisory council member Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Electrónica Telecomunicações e Informática, Portugal
2014/12/01 - 2018/12/31 PostDoc Researcher in Electronic Engineering, FCT individual grant ref. SFRH/BPD/92342/2013 Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2013/02/01 - 2014/11/29 PostDoc Researcher (Cloud Thinking, a Mais Centro QREN project) Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2012/10/01 - 2013/01/31 PostDoc Researcher Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2011/02/15 - 2012/09/30 PostDoc Researcher (CMU – Portugal program project: “Vital Responder - Monitoring Stress among First Responder Professionals”) Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2008/01/23 - 2010/12/21 PhD student (PhD Bursary, SFRH/BD/29864/2006, from FCT, MCTES) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2009/01/12 - 2009/03/14 Visiting research associate King’s College London, United Kingdom
2007/01/01 - 2008/01/23 PhD student (PhD Bursary, SFRH/BD/29864/2006, from FCT, MCTES) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2005/08/01 - 2006/12/20 Actuary BPI, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ana Almeida; Susana Brás; Susana Sargento; Ilídio Oliveira. "Using Bus Tracking Data to Detect Potential Hazard Driving Zones". 667-679. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-04881-4_53
  2. Miguel Carvalho; Susana Brás. "Heartbeat Selection Based on Outlier Removal". 218-229. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-04881-4_18
  3. Lara Pereira; Susana Brás; Raquel Sebastião. "Characterization of Emotions Through Facial Electromyogram Signals". 230-241. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-04881-4_19
  4. Daniela Pais; Susana Brás; Raquel Sebastião. "Exploring Alterations in Electrocardiogram During the Postoperative Pain". 171-181. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-04881-4_14
Conference paper
  1. Marques, Bernardo; Brás, Susana; Soares, Sandra; Fernandes, José M.. "Psychophysiological assessment tool using Virtual Reality". Paper presented in APPE 2017, Aveiro, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Carvalho, Miguel; Brás, Susana. "Addressing intra-subject variability in electrocardiogram-based biometric systems through a hybrid architecture". Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 87 (2024): 105465. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2023.105465.
    10.1016/j.bspc.2023.105465
  2. Ana Almeida; Susana Brás; Susana Sargento; Ilídio Oliveira. "Exploring bus tracking data to characterize urban traffic congestion". Journal of Urban Mobility (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2023.100065.
    10.1016/j.urbmob.2023.100065
  3. Almeida, Ana; Brás, Susana; Sargento, Susana; Pinto, Filipe Cabral. "Time series big data: a survey on data stream frameworks, analysis and algorithms". Journal of Big Data 10 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00760-1.
    10.1186/s40537-023-00760-1
  4. Pereira, Lara; Grave, Joana; Noll, Janina; Derntl, Birgit; Soares, Sandra C.; Brás, Susana; Sebastião, Raquel. "Characterisation of Physiological Responses to Odours in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Study". Applied Sciences 13 3 (2023): 1970. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13031970.
    10.3390/app13031970
  5. Raquel Sebastião; Ana Bento; Susana Brás. "Analysis of Physiological Responses during Pain Induction". Sensors (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239276.
    10.3390/s22239276
  6. Barros, Filipa; Figueiredo, Cláudia; Brás, Susana; Carvalho, João M.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Multidimensional assessment of anxiety through the State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA): From dimensionality to response prediction across emotional contexts". PLOS ONE 17 1 (2022): e0262960. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262960.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0262960
  7. Ana Almeida; Susana Brás; Ilídio Oliveira; Susana Sargento. "Vehicular traffic flow prediction using deployed traffic counters in a city". Future Generation Computer Systems (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.10.022.
    10.1016/j.future.2021.10.022
  8. Ramos, Mariana S.; Carvalho, João M.; Pinho, Armando J.; Brás, Susana. "On the Impact of the Data Acquisition Protocol on ECG Biometric Identification". Sensors 21 14 (2021): 4645. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21144645.
    Open access • 10.3390/s21144645
  9. Chunyu Tan; Liming Zhang; Tao Qian; Susana Bras; Armando J. Pinho. "Statistical n-Best AFD-Based Sparse Representation for ECG Biometric Identification". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2021): 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2021.3119138.
    10.1109/TIM.2021.3119138
  10. Gisela Pinto; João M. Carvalho; Filipa Barros; Sandra C. Soares; Armando J. Pinho; Susana Brás. "Multimodal Emotion Evaluation: A Physiological Model for Cost-Effective Emotion Classification". Sensors 20 12 (2020): 3510-3510. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20123510.
    Open access • 10.3390/s20123510
  11. João M. Carvalho; Susana Brás; Diogo Pratas; Jacqueline Ferreira; Sandra C. Soares; Armando J. Pinho. "Extended-alphabet finite-context models". Pattern Recognition Letters 112 (2018): 49-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2018.05.026.
    10.1016/j.patrec.2018.05.026
  12. Brás, Susana; Soares, Sandra C.; Cruz, Telmo; Magalhães, Tiago; Marques, Bernardo; Dantas, Cláudia; Fernandes, Nuno; Fernandes, José Maria. "The feasibility of an augment reality system to study the psychophysiological correlates of fear-related responses". Brain and Behavior 8 9 (2018): e01084. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1084.
    Open access • Published • 10.1002/brb3.1084
  13. Brás, Susana; Ferreira, Jacqueline H. T.; Soares, Sandra C.; Pinho, Armando J.. "Biometric and Emotion Identification: An ECG Compression Based Method". Frontiers in Psychology 9 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00467.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00467
  14. Ferreira, J.; Brás, S.; Silva, C.F.; Soares, S.C.. "An automatic classifier of emotions built from entropy of noise". Psychophysiology 54 4 (2017): 620-627. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85007427864&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/psyp.12808
  15. Susana Brás; Sandra C. Soares; Ricardo Moreira; José M. Fernandes. "BeMonitored: Monitoring psychophysiology and behavior using Android in phobias". Behavior Research Methods (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0633-9.
    10.3758/s13428-015-0633-9
  16. Brás, Susana. "Electroencephalogram-based indices applied to dogs' depth of anaesthesia monitoring". Research in Veterinary Science (2014):
    10.1016/j.rvsc.2014.09.017
  17. Campos, L.A.; Pereira, V.L.; Muralikrishna, A.; Albarwani, S.; Brás, S.; Gouveia, S.. "Mathematical biomarkers for the autonomic regulation of cardiovascular system". Frontiers in Physiology 4 OCT (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84885358428&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fphys.2013.00279
  18. Brás, S.; Gouveia, S.; Ribeiro, L.; Ferreira, D.A.; Antunes, L.; Nunes, C.S.. "Fuzzy logic model to describe anesthetic effect and muscular influence on EEG Cerebral State Index". Research in Veterinary Science 94 3 (2013): 735-742. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876135869&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.rvsc.2012.12.008
  19. Ribeiro, L.M.; Ferreira, D.A.; Brás, S.; Gonzalo-Orden, J.M.; Antunes, L.M.. "Correlation between clinical signs of depth of anaesthesia and cerebral state index responses in dogs with different target-controlled infusions of propofol". Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia 39 1 (2012): 21-28. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-83455223539&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1467-2995.2011.00657.x
  20. Brás, S.; Bressan, N.; Ribeiro, L.; Ferreira, D.A.; Antunes, L.; Nunes, C.S.. "A step towards effect-site target-controlled infusion with propofol in dogs: A ke0 for propofol". Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 32 2 (2009): 182-188. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-61849137366&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1365-2885.2008.01019.x
  21. Ribeiro, L.M.; Ferreira, D.A.; Brás, S.; Castro, A.; Nunes, C.A.; Amorim, P.; Antunes, L.M.. "Correlation between clinical signs of depth of anaesthesia and cerebral state index responses in dogs during induction of anaesthesia with propofol". Research in Veterinary Science 87 2 (2009): 287-291. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67650418151&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.rvsc.2009.02.010
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Brás, Susana. "Automation in veterinary anaesthesia: modelling and control". PhD, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 2010.