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Ana Paula de Frias Viegas Proença Rocha. Concluded Doutoramento in PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1993/04/19 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências and Degree in Mathematics - scientific branch Applied Mathematics in 1980 by Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências. Assistant Professor with tenure at Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Mathematics Department. Researcher in Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto (CMUP), member of the Associate Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LASI), leading the Cardiovascular Variability Research and Modelling at CMUP, where she was principal investigator of the area Signal Processing and Data Analysis in 2005-2014. Published 90+ scientific articles (36 in journals ) and has 4 chapters in books . Organized 5 event(s). Supervisor of 6 PhD(s) Thesis (3 European PhDs, 3 ongoing). Supervised 16 MSc Thesis (at national and European level) and 30+ internships in R&D Institutions in Statistics, Signal Processing & Time Series Analysis. Has received 3 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Principal investigator in 7 project(s) and Researcher in 6 project(s). Activity in the Area(s) of Exact Sciences with emphasis in Applied Mathematics , within Engineering Sciences and Technologies with focus in Biomedical Statistical Signal Processing and Data Analysis. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: HRV; Transfer Entropy; Plateau Waves; Multimodal Monitoring .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Paula de Frias Viegas Proença Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, Ana
  • Rocha, Ana Paula
  • Rocha A P

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C51B-0AA2-4D4C
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3218-7001
AuthenticusID
R-000-1AE
Google Scholar ID
lhkZ2nMAAAAJ
Researcher Id
D-2813-2012
Scopus Author Id
7102196553

Email addresses

  • aprocha@fc.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Faculdade Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Dep. Matemática e CMUP. Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability
  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
  • Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
1993/04/19
Concluded
 PhD in Applied Mathematics (Doutoramento)
Major in Systems Theory and Signal Processing
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Modelização autoregressiva de processos estocásticos pontuais: métodos, algoritmos e aplicações Autoregressive modeling of stochastic Point Processes: methods, algorithms and applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approv Distinction & Laude
1980
Concluded
 Degree Mathematics - scientific branch Applied Mathematics (Licenciatura)
Major in Applied Mathematics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 17.4
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2005 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1993 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013 - 2016 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1984/12/13 - 1993/04/19 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1980/10/02 - 1984/12/13 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1978/10/31 - 1980/10/02 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1998/04/19 - Current Tenure__Nomeação definitiva Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2002/01/01 - 2003/12/31 Estudo da influência do treino físico intenso e prolongado no perfil de variação circadiana dos ritmos respiratório e cardíaco em atletas e sedentários
Estudo da influência do treino físico intenso e prolongado no perfil de variação circadiana dos ritmos respiratório e cardíaco em atletas e sedentário
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Direcção de Serviços em Medicina desportiva
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/07/01 - 2020/06/30 STRIDE-Smart Cyberphysical, Mathematical, Computational and Power Engineering Research for Disruptive Innovation in Production, Mobility, Health, and Ocean Systems and Technologies
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000033
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Ongoing
2015/01/02 - 2017/12/31 EVALUACION NO INVASIVA DEL SISTEMA NERVIOSO AUTONOMO MEDIANTE ANALISIS DE LA VARIABILIDAD DE BIOSEÑALES. APLICACION A SITUACIONES CLINICAS RELACIONADAS CON EL ESTRES.
TIN2014-53567-R (Spain)
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2014/12/31 Multimodal biomedical signal processing for analysis and physiological characterization of cardiovascular, respiratory and autonomic disorders (BIOSPAC).
CYCT/FEDER - TEC2010-21703-C03-02 (Spain
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Concluded
2007/12/01 - 2010/11/30 Analisis multimodal-multicanal e interpretacion fisiológico diagnostica de señales biomedicas del sistema cardiovascular, respiratorio autonomico y del sueño: variabilidad dynamica e interacciones
CYCT/FEDER - TEC2007-68076-C02-02 (Spain)
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Concluded
2007/07/01 - 2008/06/30 Arterial Blood Pressure responses and Heart Rate variability: role in the diagnosis and prognosis of Sleep Disordered Breathing
IPG07_IPG03
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Caixa Geral de Depositos
Concluded
2007/07/01 - 2008/06/30 Multimodal analysis in pediatric coma
IPG07_IPG02
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Caixa Geral de Depositos
2004/11/11 - 2007/11/10 Tratamiento de señal en el análisis del ECG y polisomnografía: Procesado orientado por el modelado fisiológico
TEC2004-05263-C02-02, Spain
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Concluded
2005/10/01 - 2006/09/30 Análise da variabilidade cardiovascular em doença crítica: seguimento e prognóstico
Projetos Pluridisciplinares - Investigação Científica na Pré-Graduação 2005
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Caixa Geral de Depositos
Concluded
2002/03/01 - 2006/02/28 Tachografic, Spectral and Fractal analysis of heart rate variability in pre and pos natal life. Application in medical diagnostics and educational systems
POSI/CPS/40153/2001
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded
2004/01/02 - 2004/12/31 Diabetes Mellitus: Early signs in the pré-sintomatic phase of the autonomic disfunction.
Investigação Científica na Pré-Graduação 2003
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Universidade do Porto
Concluded
2002/01/02 - 2004/06/30 Automatización de parámetros de interés clínico sobre señales de Holter en entornos ruidosos - Análise Automática em registos ambulatórios de ECG de longa duração
CRUP Nº E26/02
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 CRUP - Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas
Concluded
2000/01/01 - 2000/12/31 RR and QT variability of long time series - Estudo da variabilidade do RR e QT em séries longas
BC LIS/882/12(99/2000) / Ref ICCTI Protoc ICCTI/BC, Processo 423/BC
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica Internacional
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Helder Pinto; Celeste Dias; Chiara Barà; Yuri Antonacci; Luca Faes; Ana Paula Rocha. "Exploring the Mutual Information Rate Decomposition in Situations of Pathological Stress". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-68949-9_18
  2. Almeida, R; Dias, C; Silva, ME; Rocha, AP. "ARFIMA-GARCH modeling of HRV: Clinical application in acute brain injury". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-58709-7_17
  3. Leite, A; Silva, ME; Rocha, AP. "Scaling exponents in heart rate variability". 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-642-34904-1_27
  4. Lago, P. J. A.; Rocha, Ana Paula; Jones, N.B.. "Autoregressive spectral analysis of point processes". In Mathematics in Signal Processing II. Clarendon Press, 1990.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Beloka, S; Gouveia, S; Gujic, M; Rocha, AP; Van de Borne, P. "DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ORAL BETA BLOCKADE ON CARDIOVASCULAR AND SYMPATHETIC REGULATION IN NORMAL SUBJECTS". 2009.
  2. Beloka, SP; Gouveia, S; Gujic, M; Rocha, AP; Van de Borne, P. "DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ORAL BETA BLOCKADE ON CARDIOVASCULAR AND SYMPATHETIC REGULATION.". 2009.
  3. Beloka, SP; Gujic, M; Gouveia, S; Rocha, AP; Van de Borne, P. "Differential effects of oral beta blockade on cardiovascular and sympathetic regulation during normoxia and hypoxia". 2008.
  4. Beloka, S; Gujic, M; Gouveia, S; Rocha, AP; van de Borne, P. "Effects of beta blockade on hemodynamics and muscle sympathetic activity". 2008.
  5. FREITAS, J; PUIG, J; TEIXEIRA, J; ROCHA, AP; LAGO, P; CARVALHO, M; COSTA, O; FREITAS, AF. "HEART-RATE-VARIABILITY AS AN ASSESSMENT OF BRAIN-DEATH". 1994.
  6. Lago, P.; Jones, N.B.; Rocha, A.P.. "CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ACTION POTENTIAL THROUGH SPECTRAL ANALYSIS.". 1984.
Conference paper
  1. Pinto, Helder; Sparacino, Laura; Antonacci, Yuri; Dias, Celeste; Pernice, Riccardo; Rocha, Ana Paula. Corresponding author: Pinto, Helder. "Autonomic Stress in Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure: Spectral Mutual Information Rate Analysis". Porto, 2024.
    Published • 10.1109/melecon56669.2024.10608719
  2. Pinto, Hélder; Antonacci, Yuri; Javorka, Michal; Faes, Luca; Rocha, Ana Paula. Corresponding author: Pinto, Hélder. "Disantangling High-Order Cardiorespiratory Interaction in Postural Stress". Paper presented in ICMASC2024, International Conference Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Science and Engineering, Porto, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Pinto, H; Antonacci, Y; Vergara, R; Faes, L; Rocha, AP. "Assessing Redundancy and Synergy in Brain-Heart Interactions: A Conditioning Approach". 2024.
    10.1109/esgco63003.2024.10766979
  4. Pinto, Hélder; Dias, Celeste; Rocha, Ana Paula. "Exploring the Mutual Information Rate Decomposition in Situations of Pathological Stress". Paper presented in SPE 2023 - XXVI Congress, 2023.
    Accepted
  5. Pinto, H; Dias, C; Rocha, AP; Rocha, Ana Paula; Pinto, Hélder; Dias, Celeste. Corresponding author: Rocha, Ana Paula. "Assessing Information Transfer and Modification in Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure". Paper presented in 7th IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG 2023), Porto, 2023.
    Accepted • 10.1109/enbeng58165.2023.10175369
  6. Pinto, SH; Antonacci, Y; Pernice, R; Barà, C; Javorka, M; Faes, L; Rocha, AP. "Decomposing the Mutual Information Rate of Heart Period and Respiration Variability Series to Assess Cardiorespiratory Interactions". 2023.
    10.1109/embc40787.2023.10341174
  7. Pinto, H; Dias, C; Rocha, AP; Pinto, Hélder; Dias, Celeste; Rocha, Ana Paula. Corresponding author: Rocha, Ana Paula. "Multiscale Information Decomposition of Long Memory Processes: Application to Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure". Paper presented in 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Glasgow, 2022, Glasgow, 2022.
    Accepted • 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9870925
  8. Pinto, H; Dias, C; Antonacci, Y; Faes, L; Rocha, AP. "Frequency Domain Information Decomposition: Application to Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure". 2022.
    10.1109/esgco55423.2022.9931364
  9. Pinto, Helder; Pernice, Riccardo; Amado, Celestino; Silva, Maria Eduarda; Javorka, Michal; Faes, Luca; Rocha, Ana Paula. "Assessing Transfer Entropy in cardiovascular and respiratory time series under long-range correlations". Paper presented in 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Guadalajara, 2021., passed to online, 2021.
    10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630004
  10. Cavaliere L.; Catrambone V.; Bianchi M.; Rocha A.P.; Valenza G.; Cavaliere, Laura; Catrambone, Vincenzo; et al. "Characterization of upper limb movement-related EEG dynamics through fractional integrated autoregressive modeling". Paper presented in 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Guadalajara, 2021., passad to online, 2021.
    10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630051
  11. Rocha, AP; Pinto, H; Amado, C; Silva, ME; Pernice, R; Javorka, M; Faes, L. "Assessing Transfer Entropy in cardiovascular and respiratory time series: A VARFI approach". 2021.
    10.3390/entropy2021-09774
  12. Leite, A; Silva, ME; Rocha, AP. "Classification of HRV using Long Short-Term Memory Networks". 2020.
    10.1109/esgco49734.2020.9158150
  13. Amado, C; Dias, C; Almeida, R; Rocha, AP. "Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure and Autonomic Stress Analysis". 2020.
    10.1109/esgco49734.2020.9158169
  14. Martins, A; Amado, C; Rocha, AP; Silva, ME; Pernice, R; Javorka, M; Faes, L. "Vector Autoregressive Fractionally Integrated Models to Assess Multiscale Complexity in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Time Series". 2020.
    10.1109/esgco49734.2020.9158136
  15. Leite, Argentina; Silva, MariaEduarda; Rocha, AnaPaula. "Model-Based Classification of Heart Rate Variability.". 2018.
    10.1109/embc.2018.8512310
  16. Leite, A; Silva, ME; Rocha, AP. "Modeling volatility in Heat Rate Variability". 2016.
    10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591502
  17. Rocha, AP; Leite, A; Silva, ME. "Volatility Leveraging in Heart Rate: health vs disease". 2016.
  18. Luis, A; Santos, AS; Dias, C; Almeida, R; Rocha, AP. "Heart Rate Variability during Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure: a pilot descriptive study". 2015.
    10.1109/embc.2015.7319794
  19. Sousa, P; Almeida, R; Silva, MJ; Rocha, AP. "Reliability Loss with Sampling Rate Reduction". 2015.
    10.1109/cic.2015.7411004
  20. Rocha, AP; Almeida, R; Leite, A; Silva, MJ; Silva, ME. "Long-term HRV in critically ill pediatric patients: coma versus brain death". 2014.
  21. Leite, A.; Rocha, A.P.; Silva, M.E.. "Enhancing scaling exponents in heart rate by means of fractional integration". 2013.
  22. Almeida, R.; Silva, M.J.; Rocha, A.P.. "Exploring QT variability dependence from heart rate in coma and brain death on pediatric patients". 2013.
  23. Almeida, R.; Goncalves, H.; Rocha, A.P.; Bernardes, J.. "A wavelet-based method for assessing fetal cardiac rhythms from abdominal ECGs". 2013.
  24. Marques, N.; Almeida, R.; Rocha, A.P.; Coimbra, M.. "Exploring the Stationary Wavelet Transform detail coefficients for detection and identification of the S1 and S2 heart sounds". 2013.
  25. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Van De Borne, P.; Laguna, P.; Rocha, A. P.; Ieee,; Gouveia, S; et al. "Factors influencing differences between invasive and spontaneous baroreflex estimates: Distinct methods or different data?". 2011.
    10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090706
  26. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.; Van De Borne, P.. "Correlation between time domain baroreflex sensitivity and Sympathetic Nerve Activity". 2010.
  27. Almeida, R.; Martínez, J.P.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.. "P wave delineation using spatially projected leads from wavelet transform loops". 2010.
  28. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, C.; Rocha, A.P.; Silva, M.E.. "Time domain BRS estimation: Least squares versus quantile regression". 2010.
  29. Leite, A.; Rocha, A.P.; Silva, M.E.. "Long memory and volatility in HRV: An ARFIMA-GARCH approach". 2009.
  30. Almeida, R.; Martínez, J.P.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.. "Are 2 electrocardiographic leads enough for multilead wave boundary location and QT measuring?". 2009.
  31. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.; Gujic, M.; Beloka, S.P.; Van De Borne, P.; Lago, P.. "BRS analysis from baroreflex sequences and baroreflex events compared using spontaneous and drug induced data". 2008.
    10.1109/cic.2008.4749147
  32. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.; Lago, P.. "Improved time domain BRS assessment with the use of baroreflex events". 2007.
    10.1109/CIC.2007.4745610
  33. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.; Lago, P.. "Threshold sensitivity in time domain BRS estimation: Minimum beat-to-beat changes and minimum correlation". 2007.
    10.1109/cic.2007.4745546
  34. Leite, A.; Rocha, A.P.; Silva, M.E.; Gouveia, S.; Carvalho, J.; Costa, O.; Leite, A; et al. "Long-range dependence in heart rate variability data: ARFIMA modelling vs detrended fluctuation analysis". 2007.
    10.1109/CIC.2007.4745411
  35. Almeida, R.; Martínez, J.P.; Rocha, A.P.; Olmos, S.; Laguna, P.. "Automatic multilead VCG based approach for QT interval measurement". 2006.
  36. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.; Van De Borne, P.; Lago, P.. "Improved BRS assessment using the global approach in the sequences technique". 2006.
  37. Martínez Cortés, J.P.; Almeida, R.; Olmos, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.. "Stability of QT measurements in the PTB database depending on the selected lead". 2006.
  38. Almeida, R; Martinez, JP; Rocha, AP; Olmos, S; Laguna, P; Almeida, R.; Martínez, J.P.; et al. "Improved QT variability quantification by multilead automatic delineation". 2005.
    10.1109/cic.2005.1588148
  39. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A.P.; Van De Borne, P.; Lago, P.. "Assessing baroreflex sensitivity in the sequences technique: Local versus global approach". 2005.
    10.1109/cic.2005.1588091
  40. Almeida, R.; Pueyo, E.; Martínez, J.P.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.. "Quantification of the QT variability related to HRV: Robustness study facing automatic delineation and noise on the ECG". 2004.
    10.1109/cic.2004.1443053
  41. Tomé, A.M.; Teixeira, A.R.; Lang, E.W.; Stadlthanner, K.; Rocha, A.P.; Almeida, R.. "Blind source separation using time-delayed signals". 2004.
    10.1109/ijcnn.2004.1380958
  42. Teixeira, A.R.; Rocha, A.P.; Almeida, R.; Tome, A.M.; Teixeira, A. R.; Rocha, A. P.. "The analysis of heart rate variability using independent component signals". 2004.
  43. Gonçalves, Hernâni; Rocha, Ana Paula; Bernardes, João; Gouveia, Sónia. "Tacographic and spectral heart rate analysis during pre and post-natal life". Paper presented in BioEng¿2003, Lisboa, 2003.
    Published
  44. Almeida, R.; Pueyo, E.; Martinez, J.P.; Rocha, A.P.; Olmos, S.; Laguna, P.. "A parametric model approach for quantification of short term QT variability uncorrelated with heart rate variability". 2003.
    10.1109/cic.2003.1291116
Conference poster
  1. Pinto, Hélder; Dias, Celeste; Rocha, Ana Paula. "Understanding Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure: A Multiscale Decomposition of Information Approach". Paper presented in International Symposium on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring, 2022.
  2. Rocha, Ana Paula. ""Assessing Transfer Entropy in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Time Series: A VARFI Approach".". Paper presented in Entropy 2021, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Silva, MJ; Gonçalves, H; Almeida, R; Dias, CC; Almeida, AI; Rocha, AP; Granja, C; Baptista, MJ; Azevedo, I. "Cardiovascular responses as predictors of mortality in children with acute brain injury". (2024): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-017-F39.
    Published • 10.1038/s41390-024-03679-2
  2. Pinto, Helder; Lazic, Ivan; Antonacci, Yuri; Pernice, Riccardo; Gu, Danlei; Barà, Chiara; Faes, Luca; Rocha, Ana Paula. Corresponding author: Pinto, Helder. "Testing dynamic correlations and nonlinearity in bivariate time series through information measures and surrogate data analysis". Frontiers in Network Physiology 4 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnetp.2024.1385421.
    Published • 10.3389/fnetp.2024.1385421
  3. Diogo Ribeiro; Rui Borges; Ana Paula Rocha; Agostinho Antunes. "Testing phylogenetic signal with categorical traits and tree uncertainty". Bioinformatics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btad433.
    10.1093/bioinformatics/btad433
  4. Hélder Pinto; Riccardo Pernice; Maria Eduarda Silva; Michal Javorka; Luca Faes; Ana Paula Rocha. "Multiscale partial information decomposition of dynamic processes with short and long-range correlations: theory and application to cardiovascular control". Physiological Measurement (2022): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6579/ac826c.
    10.1088/1361-6579/ac826c
  5. Martins, Aurora; Pernice, Riccardo; Amado, Celestino; Rocha, Ana Paula; Silva, Maria Eduarda; Javorka, Michal; Faes, Luca. "Multivariate and Multiscale Complexity of Long-Range Correlated Cardiovascular and Respiratory Variability Series". Entropy 22 3 (2020): 315. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e22030315.
    10.3390/e22030315
  6. Faes, L; Pereira, MA; Silva, ME; Pernice, R; Busacca, A; Javorka, M; Rocha, AP; et al. "Multiscale information storage of linear long-range correlated stochastic processes". PHYSICAL REVIEW E (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10773/26129.
    10.1103/physreve.99.032115
  7. Borges, Rui; Machado, João Paulo; Gomes, Cidália; Rocha, Ana Paula; Antunes, Agostinho. "Measuring phylogenetic signal between categorical traits and phylogenies". Bioinformatics 35 11 (2018): 1862-1869. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty800.
    10.1093/bioinformatics/bty800
  8. Silva, MJ; Pinheiro, R; Almeida, R; Cunha, F; Ribeiro, A; Rocha, AP; Guimaraes, H. "Heart Rate Variability in Children Submitted to Surgery". Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research (2016):
    10.4172/2155-6148.1000688
  9. Almeida, R; Goncalves, H; Bernardes, J; Rocha, AP. "Fetal QRS detection and heart rate estimation: a wavelet-based approach". PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT (2014):
    10.1088/0967-3334/35/8/1723
  10. Dias, C; Silva, MJ; Pereira, E; Silva, S; Cerejo, A; Smielewski, P; Rocha, AP; et al. "Post-Traumatic Multimodal Brain Monitoring: Response to Hypertonic Saline". JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA (2014):
    10.1089/neu.2014.3376
  11. Goncalves, H.; Costa, A.; Ayres-de-Campos, D.; Costa-Santos, C.; Rocha, A. P.; Bernardes, J.. "Comparison of real beat-to-beat signals with commercially available 4 Hz sampling on the evaluation of foetal heart rate variability". Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing 51 6 (2013): 665-676.
    10.1007/s11517-013-1036-7
  12. Leite, Argentina; Rocha, Ana Paula; Silva, Maria Eduarda. "Beyond long memory in heart rate variability: An approach based on fractionally integrated autoregressive moving average time series models with conditional heteroscedasticity". Chaos 23 2 (2013):
    10.1063/1.4802035
  13. Goncalves, H.; Henriques-Coelho, T.; Rocha, A. P.; Lourenco, A. P.; Leite-Moreira, A.; Bernardes, J.. "Comparison of different methods of heart rate entropy analysis during acute anoxia superimposed on a chronic rat model of pulmonary hypertension". Medical Engineering & Physics 35 5 (2013): 559-568.
    10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.06.020
  14. Leite, A.; Silva, M.E.; Rocha, A.P.. "Heart rate variability analysis in healthy subjects, patients suffering from congestive heart failure and heart transplanted patients | Análise da variabilidade da frequência cardíaca em indivíduos saudáveis, doentes com insuficiência cardíaca e doentes transplantados". Motricidade 9 4 (2013): 54-63. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890900204&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.6063/motricidade.9(4).1139
  15. Goncalves, H.; Henriques-Coelho, T.; Bernardes, J.; Rocha, A. P.; Brandao-Nogueira, A.; Leite-Moreira, A.. "Analysis of heart rate variability in a rat model of induced pulmonary hypertension". Medical Engineering & Physics 32 7 (2010): 746-752.
    10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.018
  16. Beloka, S. P.; Gouveia, S.; Gujic, M.; Naeije, R.; Rocha, A. P.; van de Borne, P.. "Differential Effects of Oral beta Blockade on Cardiovascular and Sympathetic Regulation". Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 14 4 (2009): 323-331.
    10.1177/1074248409350137
  17. Gouveia, S.; Rocha, A. P.; Laguna, P.; Lago, P.. "Time domain baroreflex sensitivity assessment by joint analysis of spontaneous SBP and RR series". Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 4 3 (2009): 254-261.
    10.1016/j.bspc.2009.03.003
  18. Almeida, Rute; Pablo Martinez, Juan; Rocha, Ana Paula; Laguna, Pablo; Almeida, R.; Martínez, J.P.; Rocha, A.P.; Laguna, P.. "Multilead ECG Delineation Using Spatially Projected Leads From Wavelet Transform Loops". Ieee Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 56 8 (2009): 1996-2005. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70349568699&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TBME.2009.2021658
  19. Bernardes, J.; Goncalves, H.; Ayres-De-Campos, D.; Rocha, A. P.. "Sex differences in linear and complex fetal heart rate dynamics of normal and acidemic fetuses in the minutes preceding delivery". Journal of Perinatal Medicine 37 2 (2009): 168-176.
    10.1515/JPM.2009.024
  20. Bernardes, J.; Goncalves, H.; Ayres-De-Campos, D.; Rocha, A. P.. "Linear and complex heart rate dynamics vary with sex in relation to fetal behavioural states". Early Human Development 84 7 (2008): 433-439.
    10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.12.001
  21. Goncalves, H.; Henriques-Coelho, T.; Bernardes, J.; Rocha, A. P.; Nogueira, A.; Leite-Moreira, A.. "Linear and nonlinear heart-rate analysis in a rat model of acute anoxia". Physiological Measurement 29 9 (2008): 1133-1143.
    10.1088/0967-3334/29/9/010
  22. Gonçalves, H.; Rocha, A.P.; Ayres-de-Campos, D.; Bemardes, J.. "Frequency domain and entropy analysis of fetal heart rate: Appealing tools for fetal surveillance and pharmacodynamic assessment of drugs". Cardiovascular and Hematological Disorders - Drug Targets 8 2 (2008): 91-98. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-48249117520&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2174/187152908784533720
  23. Goncalves, H.; Bernardes, J.; Rocha, A. P.; Ayres-De-Carnpos, D.. "Linear and nonlinear analysis of heart rate patterns associated with fetal behavioral states in the antepartum period". Early Human Development 83 9 (2007): 585-591.
    10.1016/j.earthumdev.2006.12.006
  24. Leite, Argentina S.; Rocha, Ana Paula; Silva, M. Eduarda; Costa, Ovidio; Leite, AS; Rocha, AP; Silva, ME; Costa, O. "Modelling long-term heart rate variability: an ARFIMA approach". Biomedizinische Technik 51 4 (2006): 215-219.
    10.1515/BMT.2006.040
  25. Almeida, R; Gouveia, S; Rocha, AP; Pueyo, E; Martinez, JP; Laguna, P. "QT variability and HRV interactions in ECG: Quantification and reliability". Ieee Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53 7 (2006): 1317-1329.
    10.1109/TBME.2006.873682
  26. Goncalves, H.; Rocha, A. P.; Ayres-de-Campos, D.; Bernardes, J.. "Internal versus external intrapartum foetal heart rate monitoring: the effect on linear and nonlinear parameters". Physiological Measurement 27 3 (2006): 307-319.
    10.1088/0967-3334/27/3/008
  27. Goncalves, H.; Rocha, A. P.; Ayres-de-Campos, D.; Bernardes, J.. "Linear and nonlinear fetal heart rate analysis of normal and acidemic fetuses in the minutes preceding delivery". Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing 44 10 (2006): 847-855.
    10.1007/s11517-006-0105-6
  28. Tomé, AM; Teixeira, AR; Lang, EW; Stadlthanner, K; Rocha, AP; Almeida, R; Tome, AM. "dAMUSE - A new tool for denoising and blind source separation". Digital Signal Processing 15 4 (2005): 400-421.
    10.1016/j.dsp.2005.01.004
  29. Martínez, JP; Almeida, R; Olmos, S; Rocha, AP; Laguna, P; Martinez, JP. "A wavelet-based ECG delineator: evaluation on standard databases". IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering 51 4 (2004): 570-581. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-000-AZ4.
    10.1109/TBME.2003.821031
  30. Boardman, A.; Schlindwein, F. S.; Rocha, A. P.; Leite, A.. "A study on the optimum order of autoregressive models for heart rate variability". Physiological Measurement 23 2 (2002): 325-336.
    10.1088/0967-3334/23/2/308
  31. Rebelo, A.N.; Costa, O.; Rocha, A.P.; Soares, J.M.; Lago, P.. "Is autonomic control of the heart rate at rest altered by detraining? A study of heart rate variability in professional soccer players after the pretraining period and after the preparatory period for competitions | O controlo autonómico da frequência cardíaca em repouso e alterado pelo destreino? Estudo da variabilidade da frequência cardíaca em futebolistas profissionais após o defeso e após o p". Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgão oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology 16 6 (1997): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0031157957&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  32. Freitas, J; Puig, J; Rocha, AP; Lago, P; Teixeira, J; Carvalho, MJ; Costa, O; deFreitas, AF. "Heart rate variability in brain death". Clinical Autonomic Research 6 3 (1996): 141-146.
    10.1007/bf02281900
  33. Costa, O.; Lago, P.; Rocha, A.P.; Freitas, J.; Puig, J.; Carvalho, M.J.; de Freitas, A.F.. "The spectral analysis of heart rate variability. A comparative study between nonparametric and parametric spectral analysis in short series | Análise espectral da variabilidade da frequência cardíaca. Estudo comparativo entre a análise espectral não paramétrica e paramétrica em séries curtas.". Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology 14 9 (1995): 621-626. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0029372865&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  34. Costa, O.; Lago, P.; Rocha, A.P.; Carvalho, M.J.; Freitas, A.; Freitas, J.; Puig, J.; Brandão, A.; de Freitas, F.. "Heart rate variability in 24-hour holter recordings. Comparative study between short- and long-term time- and frequency-domain analyses". Journal of Electrocardiology 27 3 (1994): 251-254. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0027983614&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/s0022-0736(94)80009-x
  35. COSTA, O; LAGO, P; ROCHA, AP; CARVALHO, MJ; FREITAS, A; FREITAS, J; PUIG, J; BRANDAO, A; DEFREITAS, F. "HEART-RATE-VARIABILITY IN 24-HOUR HOLTER RECORDINGS - COMPARATIVE-STUDY BETWEEN SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM TIME-DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ANALYSES". Journal of Electrocardiology 27 3 (1994): 251-254.
    10.1016/S0022-0736(94)80009-X
  36. Lago, P. J. A.; Rocha, A. P.; Jones, N. B.. "COVARIANCE DENSITY-ESTIMATION FOR AUTOREGRESSIVE SPECTRAL MODELING OF POINT-PROCESSES". Biological Cybernetics 61 3 (1989): 195-203.
    10.1007/bf00198766
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rocha, Ana Paula. "Rocha, A.P., "Modelização espectral de processos estocásticos pontuais: métodos, algoritmos e aplicações". Phd Thesis". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 1993.
  2. Rocha, Ana Paula. "Rocha, A.P., "Caracterização do miograma por análise espectral". Equivalent yo "Msc Thesis", presented for "Provas de Aptidão Pedagógica e Capacidade Científica"". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 1984.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12/18 Insights into Traumatic Brain Injury Dynamics: An Information Theoretic Approach 2nd Annual Meeting Annual do CIBIT
Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Univ Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/06/07 Variabilidade cardiovascular em Stress Fisiológico e Doença Crítica Mestrado em Evidência e Decisão em Saúde
CINTESIS e MEDCIDS – Departamento de Medicina da Comunidade, Informação e Decisão em Saúde – da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/01/04 Multivariate and multiscale complexity of linear long-range correlated signals: application in cardiovascular variability DaSSWeb, Data Science and Statistics Webinar
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/10/26 Análise da variabilidade da frequência cardíaca em doença crítica e cuidados intensivos Jornadas de Matemática, Estatística e Aplicações da Universidade Aberta
Universidade Aberta , Delegação do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06/07 Challenges of heart rate variability analysis in critical illness and critical care Challenges in Healthcare | The Role of Mathematics
Portuguese Network for Mathematics in Industry and Innovation (PT-MATHS-IN) (Coimbra)
2018/07/04 Heart rate variability analysis in critical illness and critical care CIENCIA2018 Encontro com a Ciencia e Tecnologia em Portugal
FCT (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/26 - Current Remote extraction of vital signs
Co-supervisor of Daniela Maria da Silva Tavares
 Applied Mathematics (PhD) (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2024/09/06 - Current Radiomics and PET: Investigating the Need for Surgery After Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer
Co-supervisor of Adriana Azevedo Couto
 Engineering Mathematics (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/12/01 - Current PhD Grant ref 2022.11423.BD on " High-order Dynamical Interactions in Complex Network Systems: Information-Theoretic and Parametric Modeling Approaches , in collaboration with Luca Faes.
Supervisor of Hélder Armando Gonçalves Pinto
 Applied Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2022/12/12 Assessing traits and phylogenetic signal to unravel the tempo and mode of phenotypic evolution
Co-supervisor of Diogo da Silva Ribeiro
 Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/12/01 - 2022/11/30 Phd GRANT - UIDP/MAT/00144/2020 - CMUP-DP2021 - Análise Variabilidade Cardiovascular
Supervisor of Hélder Armando Gonçalves Pinto
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/12/13 Análise da Complexidade da Variabilidade Cardiovascular: Aplicação em Stress Autonómico e Doença Crítica
Supervisor of Hélder Armando Gonçalves Pinto
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/11/30 Research Grant BII undergraduate, Ref: Project UIDB/MAT/00144/2020 , Análise da Variabilidade Cardiovascular
Supervisor of Hélder Armando Gonçalves Pinto
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/04/24 Characterization of upper limb movement-related cortical dynamics through fractional integrated autoregressive modeling of electroencephalographic signals
Co-supervisor of Laura Cavaliere
 corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria biomedica (Master)
Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
2019/02/01 - 2019/08/31 Reseach Grant MSc, Ref: BDP ¿ Análise Variabilidade Cardiovascular, Project STRIDE, NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000033 .
Supervisor of Aurora Losa Ramalho Martins
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Stress autonómico durante as Ondas Plateau em doentes com Traumatismo Crâneo-Encefálico
Supervisor of Celestino Manuel Lopes Barbosa Amado
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 - 2019 ECG Compression and QRS Detection: an IoT Approach
Supervisor of Hugo Miguel Oliveira Sousa
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/05/15 - 2018/06/30 Bolsa de investigação BII Licenciado, Ref: Projeto UID/MAT/00144/2013 - HRV, Análise da Variabilidade Cardiovascular em doença crítica.
Supervisor of Margarida Almeida Pereira
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Análise da variabilidade cardiovascular em alteração postural
Supervisor of Margarida Almeida Pereira
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Desenvolvimento e Análise de Modelos de Mercado de Cloud
Supervisor of Ana Catarina Dias da Silva Alves
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Modelação da variabilidade da frequência cardíaca: Aplicação clínica em lesão cerebral aguda
Supervisor of Maria de Jesus Martins Pinto
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/02 - 2016/02 Structural Breaks in Heart Rate Variability Time Series Co-Orientation, with Alessandra Micheletti, UNIMI.
Co-supervisor of Monica Introini
Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Matematica (Master)
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Italy
2015/06/01 - 2015/08/31 Development and implementation of a strategy for noninvasive Fetal Electrocardiograms quality assessment . Bolsa de Investigação - Mestre- Incentivo/MAT/UI0144/2014
Co-supervisor of Carla Marisa Martins Oliveira
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2015 - 2015 A Bayesian hierarchical robust model to detect and identify exonic CNVs
Supervisor of Rui Carlos Pinto Borges
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Clustering de instalações, com (re)definição de segmentos em função do comportamento energético
Co-supervisor of Joana Raquel Freitas Martins
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Efeito da osmoterapia sobre a pressão intracraniana, fluxo sanguíneo cerebral e oxigenação: estudo por modelos lineares mistos
Co-supervisor of Maria João Cruz Marques da Silva
 Engenharia Matemática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2005 - 2009 Contributions to the Analysis of Short-term Cardiovascular Coupling
Supervisor of Sónia Cristina Alexandre Gouveia
 Matemática Aplicada (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Contribuições para a Modelação de Variabilidade da Frequência Cardíaca
Supervisor of Argentina Maria Soeima Leite
 Matemática Aplicada (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2008 - 2008 As oscilações tálamo-corticais: algoritmos para padrões neuronais.
Co-supervisor of Helder Rui Cardoso da Cruz
 mestrado em bioinformática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Automatic Ecg Characterization: Application to Qt Interval Variability
Supervisor of Rute Alexandra Borges de Almeida
 Matemática Aplicada (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2005 - 2005 Characterization and Study of Cardiorespiratory Signals Relations and Coupling
Supervisor of Sónia Cristina Alexandre Gouveia
 Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, FCUP - FEUP (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2002/03 - 2004/02 Cardiorespiratory Acoplation. Grant from Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, under the scope of the research and development protocol between CHSJ/Centro de Estudos da Função Autonómica (CEFA) and FCUP/DMA
Supervisor of Sónia Cristina Alexandre Gouveia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2003 - 2004 Caracterização da variabilidade da Frequência cardíaca através de métodos lineares e não-lineares
Supervisor of Hernâni Lobo da Silva Maia Gonçalves
 Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, FCUP - FEUP (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/01 - 2024/06 IEEE Melecon 2024_Organization and Chair (with Luca Faes) of the Special Session: Empowering Healthcare: Patient-Centric Innovation and Technology Integration (2024/06/25 - 2024/06/27)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 IEEE, United States
2018/12/06 - 2018/12/07 4th CMUP WORKSHOP on Signal Processing and Data Analysis: “Continuous estimation methods for cardiovascular dynamics”, by Gaitano Valenza and Riccardo Barbieri. https://www.cmup.pt/sites/default/files/2018-11/Workshop_CMUP_SPDA_2018_December_6_7_0.pdf (2018/12/06 - 2018/12/07) (2018/12/06 - 2018/12/07)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2017/10/13 - 2017/10/13 3rd CMUP WORKSHOP on Signal Processing and Data Analysis: “Information Theory for the Analysis of Physiological Time Series ”, by Luca Faes, PhD, Research Fellow BIOtech, University of Trento, Italy. https://cmup.fc.up.pt/main/content/workshop-signal-processing-and-data-analysis (2017/10/13) (2017/10/13 - 2017/10/13)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2015/11/20 - 2015/11/20 2nd CMUP WORKSHOP on Signal Processing and Data Analysis: “Multivariate time frequency analysis: from theory to labwork", by Michele Orini, Research Fellow Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, UK & Barts Heart Centre, London, UK. https://sigarra.up.pt/fcup/en/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=13272 (2015/11/20) (2015/11/20 - 2015/11/20)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
2014/12/12 - 2014/12/12 1st CMUP WORKSHOP on Signal Processing and Data Analysis: “Point Process Models of Heartbeat Dynamics”, by Riccardo Barbieri . https://www.cmup.pt/events/workshop-point-process-models-heartbeat-dynamics (2014/12/12) (2014/12/12 - 2014/12/12)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/07/22 - 2022/07/29 ISINP 2022 - Third International Summer Institute on Network Physiology. Lake Como International Summer Institute, https://isinp-3.lakecomoschool.org/ The Boston University Laboratory for Network Physiology Third International Summer Institute on Network Physiology
Boston University, United States
2019/07/28 - 2019/08/02 ISINP 2019 - Second international Summer School on Network Physiology, focusing on the coordination and network interactions among diverse organ systems and sub-systems as a hallmark of physiologic state and function. Lake Como International Summer Institute, https://isinp-2.lakecomoschool.org/ and The Boston University Laboratory for Network Physiology ISINP2019 Second International Summer School on Network Physiology
Boston University, United States

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/07 ON NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF BRAIN DYNAMICS FOR REVEALING COGNITIVE PROCESSES , Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria della Informazione, PhD , External Evaluation Report
Thesis Member
 Ameer Ghouse (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
2020/02 Advances in signal processing methods to investigate functional brain-heart interplay, Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria della Informazione, PhD , External Evaluation Report
Thesis Member
 Vincenzo Catramboni (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
2018/12/13 Statistical models in cancer survival - Application to study of prognostic factors in the presence of incomplete data
Thesis Member
 Luís Jorge Lopes Botelho Antunes (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/12 Biostatistics of Cardiac Signals: Theory & Applications, PhD Course of Information Engineering, European PhD Report Agnese Sbrollini (PhD)
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
2016/07/26 Contributions to the analysis of multivariate count data
Thesis Member
 Cristina Maria Dias Pereira Torres (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/06/17 Development of novel methods of saturation transfer MRI for clinical application
(Thesis) Arguer
 Paula Trujillo (PhD)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2016/06/17 Advanced EEG/ERP signal analysis for the investigation of early sensory processing and cognitive development
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Piazza Caterina (PhD)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2014/05/12 Statistical Models in the Evaluation of Chronic Dialysis Programs. A Critical appraisal
Thesis Member
 Laetitia da Costa Teixeira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/01/28 Data Assimilation: Contribuições para a Modelação, Previsão e Controlo em Anestesia
Thesis Member
 Maria da Conceição de Oliveira Nunes Rocha (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2006/12 Detección de heterogeneidades en la despolarizatión y replorarización cardiacas a partir delelectrocardiograma como mejora de la predicción del riesgo dace a arritmias, Inginieria Biomedica, European PhD report Esther Puyeo Paules (PhD)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
2001/01 Controlo cardiovascular em atletas. Influência do destreino e do stress ortoestático de treino.
Thesis Member
 Armando de Castro Oliveira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Desporto, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - Current EMS, European Mathematics Society
2010 - Current ASA, American Statistics Association
2004 - Current IEEE, SPS Signal Processing Society
2004 - Current IEEE, EMB Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
2000 - Current SPE, Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
1990 - Current SPM, Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática Atividade regular retomada 2016

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2025/01 - Current IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing IEEE, United States
2023/08 - Current Senior Member of The IEEE
2021/03/01 - Current Associate Editor, Board of Information Theory (specialty section of Frontiers in Network Physiology). www.frontiersin.org
Other
 Frontiers in Network Physiology | Publishing Development Team, Switzerland

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2014 - Current >+ 5 MSc students Internships in Companies and institutions .
2015/02 - 2015/07 PEEC- Extracurricular internships (DM-FCUP/CMUP) Ana Luísa Rodrigues Lopes
2015/02 - 2015/07 PEEC- ExtraCurricular Internship FCUP (DM-FCUP/CMUP) André Gustavo Pereira Moutinho
2000 - 2010 >+ 30 Internships final undergraduate degree students in companies and institutions .

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/11 - 2024/11 Evaluation Panel of the IEEE Outstanding MSc Thesis Award 2024
2011/11 - 2012/01 Ciência 2007 - Ref: C2007-CMUP/FCUP_BIOM-SAA. Organization of the substitution process and monitoring of one pos-doc. Was part of the jury of this call regarding one Pos-Doc position of 4 years in Biomathematics/Bioinformatics, Area of Signal Processing and Data Analysis. Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2008/07 - 2008/12 Ciência 2008 - Ref C2008-CMUP/FCUP-SAA. Organization of the process, monitoring and integration of hired. Was part of the jury of this call from CMUP / FCUP, regarding two Pos-Doc positions of 5 years in Statistical Analysis and Applications (Statistical computation, Signal and Data Analysis) Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2007/06 - 2007/12 Ciência 2007 - Ref: C2007-CMUP/FCUP_BIOM-SAA. Organization of the process, monitoring and integration of hired. Was part of the jury of this call from CMUP / FCUP, regarding two Pos-Doc positions of 5 years in Bioinformatics/Biomathematics, Area of Signal Processing and Data Analysis. Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2005 Melhor projeto de Investigação Científica na Pré-Graduação - Best Undergraduate Scientic Research Project
Fundação Ilídio Pinho, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal
1980 Prémio Eng. António de Almeida, Top classifications inundergraduated courses at FCUP
Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal
1980 Prémio Prof. Abílio Aires ,Top classifications in Probability and Statistics undergraduated courses at FCUP
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal