Carlos Manta Oliveira

Current

• Mathematics Monitor at FEUP - Universidade do Porto

Past

• UniJunior - Summer School Lecturer at Universidade do Porto
• Mathematics Monitor at Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto
• Research Engineer at Hilti AG

• Research trainee at INEB - Biomedical Engineering Institute
• Technical Support at Millenium BCP (Banco Comercial Português)

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Education

• FEUP - Universidade do Porto
• The University of Manchester
• Universidade do Porto

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Connections

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Industry

Industrial Automation

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Summary

Research Engineer in the field of automation and Control. Focus on communication and Wireless Technologies, besides Instrumentation and Signal Processing.
Currently doing a PhD on Digital Image Processing, with the goal to bring innovative solutions that can deliver added value to industries and their products.

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Specialties:

Machine Vision, Image Processing, Image acquisition, Automation, Robotics.

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Experience

• Mathematics Monitor

  FEUP - Universidade do Porto

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Part-time position, while I am working on my PhD. Tasks are as usual for a monitor, to contribute to the goal of making students understand and embrace the wonderful field of Mathematics.

• UniJunior - Summer School Lecturer

  Universidade do Porto

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Summer School Lecturer, target groups were teenagers with prospects of applying to the University, goal was to motivate them and give them basics on Image Processing and Applications.

• Mathematics Monitor

  Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — November 2005 (3 months)

  Monitor tasks are to assist and develop first year students skills, in order to prepare them to be successful in the transition to the University. More than theorical know-how, also study methods and behaviours.

• Research Engineer

  Hilti AG

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Industrial Automation industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years )

  Main tasks involving Signal Processing and Sensor interfacing. Focus on wireless technologies.

• Research trainee

  INEB - Biomedical Engineering Institute

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  September 1998 — June 1999 (10 months)

  Assist on Research Projects dealing with Signal and Image Processing applied to Biomedical applications. Storage of results on SQL databases, and display them using Web Interfaces.

• Technical Support

  Millenium BCP (Banco Comercial Português)

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  September 1997 — June 1998 (10 months)

  Part-time job as technical support for a Homebanking software. Tasks were helping customers setting up and configuring secure connections to the Bank.

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Education

• FEUP - Universidade do Porto

  PhD , Digital Image Processing , 2005 — 2007

  Research topics include Image Processing, Image Analysis, Texture Analysis, Defect Detection.
  Other topics of interest include quantitative image analysis for medical or chemical applications (example - cell count)

  Activities and Societies:

  NAAM - Aeronautical interest group

• The University of Manchester

  MSc , Electronic Instrumentation Systems , 1999 — 2000

  Dissertation title: "Electronic nose", sensor interfacing, signal processing, chemical sensors, pattern matching, for the detection of rotten wood by non intrusive means (Analysing emanating gases)
  
  - graduated with Distinction – top 10% of class

• Universidade do Porto

  Electrical Engineering and Electronics 1995 — 2000

Additional Information

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Interests:

Image Processing, Quality Control, Quality assessment, Automation, Defect Detection. Ultimate Frisbee, Trekking, Hiking, Mountaineering. Photography, soft skill development.

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Groups:

IEEE, BEST

•    Board of European Students of Technology
•    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
•    World Wildlife Fund
•    Portuguese Entrepreneurship Network
•    Hilti Corporation
•    XING.com
•    Entrepreneurship Club of the University of Porto
•    ELECTRO FEUP ALUMNI
•    Comunicação Empresarial
•    FEUP Alumni
•    Disc (o) Tech
•    Wonderful World of Ultimate
•    The Star Tracker
•    Great Free Apps
•    Green
•    FEUP Electro 95-2000

Carlos Manta Oliveira’s Honors:

- Patent awarded -"Control of a Power Tool" - EP 1 466 702 A1
- Eng. Cristiano P. Spratley Award (best graduate in Elect. and Comp. Eng.)
- Eng. António de Almeida Award (final grade exceeding 16/20)
- Attained Academic Merit Scholarship in the academic year 1996/1997

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