Solange Silva Nunes (D91B-31DA-EF76)

Curriculum Vitae

Solange Silva Nunes

Solange Nunes has been a member of iLAPP - CFUMUP (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Astrophysics and Particle Physics - Center of Physics from the University of Minho and the University of Porto) since June 2020. Her research focuses on Gravitational Waves (GW) Astrophysics and the application of ML and DL methods. Her main contributions are the application of DL methods to detect GW from the merger of binary black holes or binary neutron stars and parameter inference from spectrogram data and the development of DL methods to perform classification and parameter inference on Time Series of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae numerically-generated GW.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Solange Silva Nunes

Citation names

Nunes, Solange

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D91B-31DA-EF76
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1506-3368

Email addresses

id11144@alunos.uminho.pt (Professional)
solangesilnunes@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/09 - 2027 Ongoing	Física (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/06 Concluded	Mestrado em Física (Mestrado) Major in Astrofísica Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Deep-Learning Inference of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae with Numerically-Generated Gravitational-Wave Signals" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2018/01/26 Concluded	Licenciatura em Física (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	12

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Alvares, Joao D.; Font, Jose A.; Freitas, Felipe F.; Freitas, Osvaldo G.; Morais, Antonio P.; Nunes, Solange; Onofre, Antonio; Torres-Forne, Alejandro. "Gravitational-wave parameter inference using Deep Learning". 2021. 10.1109/cbmi50038.2021.9461893
Journal article	Gramaxo Freitas, Osvaldo; Calderón Bustillo, Juan; Font, José A; Nunes, Solange; Onofre, Antonio; Torres-Forné, Alejandro. "Comparison of neural network architectures for feature extraction from binary black hole merger waveforms". Machine Learning: Science and Technology 5 1 (2024): 015036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad2972. 10.1088/2632-2153/ad2972 Álvares, João D; Font, José A; Freitas, Felipe F; Freitas, Osvaldo G; Morais, António P; Nunes, Solange; Onofre, Antonio; Torres-Forné, Alejandro. "Exploring gravitational-wave detection and parameter inference using deep learning methods". Classical and Quantum Gravity 38 15 (2021): 155010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ac0455. 10.1088/1361-6382/ac0455
Preprint	Nunes, Solange; Gabriel Escrig; Freitas, Osvaldo G.; José A. Font; Fernandes, Tiago; Onofre, Antonio; Torres-Forne, Alejandro. "Deep-Learning Classification and Parameter Inference of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae". 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04938.
Thesis / Dissertation	"Deep-learning Inference of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae with Numerically-Generated Gravitational-Wave Signals". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/85334.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/09/23	Studying Core-Collapse Supernova Gravitational Waves with Machine Learning	3rd Workshop on Compact Objects, GW and Deep Learning University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/06/22	Deep-Learning Inference of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae with Numerically-Generated Gravitational-Wave Signals	2nd Workshop on Compact Objects, GW and Deep Learning University of Valencia (Valência, Spain)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/02 - 2024/02	The 2024 edition of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitational Physics (SIGRAV) International School is dedicated to a comprehensive exploration of precision measurements in gravitational research. This school aims to provide a thorough overview of recent experiments and cutting-edge detection techniques across various gravitational measurement domains ranging from atoms up to the cosmos. Workshop	MEASURING GRAVITY - SIGRAV 2024 SIGRAV, Italy
2022/09 - 2022/09	The 3rd Workshop on Compact Objects, GW, and Deep Learning intends to bring together experimental and theoretical Astrophysicists, Relativists, and Cosmologists in close collaboration with High Energy Particle Physicists to explore the Universe from its most fundamental particle constituents to the events that happen at a Cosmological scale. The workshop is particularly focused on Deep Learning algorithms for Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Particle Physics, providing young Master and PhD researchers with state-of-the-art knowledge in these fields. Workshop	3rd Workshop on Compact Objects, GW and Deep Learning Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/06 - 2022/06	The 2nd Workshop on Compact Objects, GW, and Deep Learning intends to bring together experimental and theoretical Astrophysicists, Relativists, and Cosmologists in close collaboration with High Energy Particle Physicists to explore the Universe from its most fundamental particle constituents to the events that happen at a Cosmological scale. The workshop is focused on Deep Learning algorithms for Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Particle Physics, providing young Master and PhD researchers with state-of-the-art knowledge in these fields. Workshop	2nd Workshop on Compact Objects, GW and Deep Learning Universitat de València, Spain
2022/06 - 2022/06	The European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting (formerly known as EWASS, and earlier JENAM) has more than 25 years of tradition and it has imposed itself as the largest conference for European astronomy. In addition to plenary sessions and the award of prestigious prizes, the conference hosts many symposia held in parallel, as well as special sessions and meetings. Conference	EAS Annual Meeting 2022 European Astronomical Society, Switzerland
2022/06 - 2022/06	The Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting is an international conference set up yearly since 2011 by different groups around the Iberian Peninsula with interests in Gravitational Waves. The series of meetings have been associated with the Spanish Network on Gravitational Waves (REDONGRA). Meeting	12th Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/06 - 2021/06	The Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting is an international conference set up yearly since 2011 by different groups around the Iberian Peninsula with interests in Gravitational Waves. The series of meetings have been associated with the Spanish Network on Gravitational Waves (REDONGRA). Meeting	11th Iberian Gravitational Waves Meeting Universitat de València, Spain
2021/06 - 2021/06	The ISAPP Summer School on Gravitational Waves 2021 offers a general overview of the different aspects of gravitational-wave science: a theoretical introduction to gravitational waves and their astrophysical sources, a course on detectors, and finally an overview of data analysis techniques and the scientific implications of the first detections. Future perspectives, covering the instruments and associated science, will also be discussed. Workshop	ISAPP Summer School on Gravitational Waves 2021
2021/04 - 2021/06	In Introduction to Computer Vision with PyTorch, we study the main techniques used in computer vision and deep learning using PyTorch. Workshop	Introduction to computer vision with pyTorch Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/09 - 2020/09	The Workshop on Compact Objects, Gravitational Waves and Deep Learning, intends to bring together experimental and theoretical Astrophysicists, Relativists and Cosmologists in a close collaboration with High Energy Particle Physicists to explore the Universe from its most fundamental particle constituents, to the events that happen at a Cosmological scale. Workshop	Workshop on Compact Objects, Gravitational Waves and Deep Learning Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal