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Personal information

Surnames / First names Ferreira Cordeiro, Nuno Miguel Address R. Padre Xavier Coutinho, 58, , Telephone (+351) 93 823 1300 E-mail [email protected]

Nationality Portuguese

Date of birth 9 October 1981

Gender Male

Desired employment / Telecommunications / Contents Occupational field

Education and training

Dates 9/1999 – 12/2005 Title of qualification awarded Licentiate in Electronics and Computers Engineering – Telecommunications Grade Point Average: 14 (from 0 to 20)

Principal subjects / occupational skills Grades on subjects pertaining to programming and telecommunications (in a scale from 0 to 20): covered Graduation Project: 19 Sistemas Digitais (Digital Systems): 17 Microprocessadores (Microprocessors): 16 Automação Industrial (Industrial Automation): 15 Sistemas de Microcomputadores (Microcomputer Systems): 14 Comunicações Digitais e Redes de Computadores (Digital Communications and Computer Networks): 16 Sistemas de Telecomunicações (Telecommunications Systems): 16 Sistemas Gráficos (Graphical Systems): 18 Arquitectura de Sistemas de Processamento Digital (Digital Processing Systems Architecture): 17 Inteligência Artificial (Artificial Intelligence): 15 Televisão Digital (Digital Television): 16 Sistemas de Informação (Information Systems): 17 Sistemas Multimédia (Multimedia Systems): 19

Name and type of organisation Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) – www.fe.up.pt providing education and training (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto – FEUP) Level in national or international Portuguese Licentiate (5 year degree) classification

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Work experience

Dates 07 September 2006 to Present Occupation or position held Junior Engineer, responsible for the corrective, preventive, and evolutive maintenance of a productive software tool written in C, for Infineon Technologies AG. Employer Critical Software – http://www.criticalsoftware.com

Dates 01 March 2006 – 31 May 2006 Occupation or position held Monitor for the subject Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados (Data Structures and Algorithms), responsible for the practical lessons in four classes and providing assistance in the creation and correction of grading material. (http://www.fe.up.pt/~eol/AED/0506) Employer Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto – http://www.fe.up.pt/ (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto)

Dates 01 October 2005 – 31 March 2006 Occupation or position held Research fellowship.

Employer Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciências da Computação – http://www.liacc.up.pt/ (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science)

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue Portuguese

Other language Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user Spanish C1 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C1 Proficient user B2 Independent User B2 Independent User French B1 Independent User B2 Independent User A2 Basic User A2 Basic User A2 Basic User (*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level

Social skills and competences Great capacity for social interaction; Team spirit; High capacity for adaptation to multicultural environments acquired through multiple trips abroad, including a participation, in 1999, in the 40th International Mathematics Olympics in Bucharest, Romania; in 2005, in the Rescue Simulation League of RoboCup 2005 in Osaka, Japan; and in 2006 in two Rescue Simulation League competitions, the first in Eindhoven, Holland, for RoboLudens 2006 and the second in Bremen, Germany, for RoboCup 2006; Good communication skills acquired in several extracurricular activities such as, for example, the participation in the gathering and organization of provisions for the Portuguese Food Bank campaigns, and the “Hora do Conto” (Story Hour), of the Fundação do Gil, with regular visits to hospitals to read tales to children.

Organisational skills and Leadership and organization skills in socially intense environments, acquired during the organization competences and administration of several academic activities included in the “Semana de Engenharia” (Engineering Week) celebrations from 2002 to 2005; Organization skills acquired in several extracurricular activities such as the participation in the organization of “Minho 2k+2”, a computer enthusiast gathering and LAN Party event with over one thousand participants.

Technical skills and Capacity to fully assemble and disassemble a PC, with experience in the identification and competences resolution of problems, acquired during the assembly and maintenance of several dozens of personal computers.

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Computer skills and Experienced debugger and programmer in C/C++; competences Programming skills in PHP, Perl, Verilog and Assembly; Knowledge in HDL; Experience in the area of web page creation: HTML, CSS, XML and DTDs, XSD, XSL, CGI, PHP, Perl, Javascript, Flash, Shockwave; Construction of data base information systems using PHP/SQL. Advanced knowledge in Digital television and associated Technologies, including compression algorithms, transmission and coding standards for audio, video and metadata; Experience in the installation, utilization and administration of average complexity wired and wireless networks; and workstations in Windows and Linux; Knowledge of a large quantity of commercial software, including several applications for computer virtualization, office work, antivirus, firewalls, malware removal tools, system administration tools (both local and remote), image editors, sound editors, and many others.

Artistic skills and Acting part in the 2007 theatre play “A um dia do paraíso”, written and staged by José Carretas, with competences ten exhibitions in the Teatro Carlos Alberto (TeCA) national theatre and highly favourable reviews; Member of the university’s drama club in FEUP, in 2000/2001 and 2005/2006, culminating with a leading part in the play “Perdi a minha pen-drive”, staged by José Carretas, with an attendance of more than one thousand people in two sold-out exhibitions. Ballroom dance lessons in Clube Finianos between November 2000 and May 2001 and in Academia Pedro Sousa from October to December 2001.

Other skills and competences Natural talent for languages and communication in foreign environments. Practiced several sports: horseback riding, snow skiing, water skiing, paint-ball, swimming, and full-contact, amongst others.

Driving licences Portuguese Driver’s Licence for category B vehicles since August 2000; Portuguese Sailor’s Licence, conferring the ability to navigate up to 3 nautical miles from the coast and 6 miles from a harbour, during daytime, in vessels with up to 60hp.

Publications João Certo, Nuno Cordeiro, Francisco Reinaldo, Luís Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau, FCPx: A Tool for Evaluating Teams' Performance in RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, in Gelbukh, A. and Reyes- Garcia, C. eds, Special Issue: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Research in Computing Science, Vol. 26, pp.137-148, November 2006, ISSN: 1870-4069 Luís Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau, Francisco Reinaldo, Nuno Cordeiro and João Certo. FC Portugal: Development and Evaluation of a New RoboCup Rescue Team. 1st IFAC Workshop on Multivehicle Systems (MVS'06), Bahia Convention Center, Salvador, Brazil, October 2 – 3, 2006 Francisco Reinaldo, João Certo, Nuno Cordeiro, Luís Paulo Reis, Rui Camacho, Nuno Lau. Applying Biological Paradigms to Emerge Behaviour in RoboCup Rescue Team. In Carlos Bento, Amílcar Cardoso, Gaël Dias (Eds.): Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Covilhã, Portugal, December 5-8, 2005, Proceedings. Vol. 3808, pp. 422-43487. Springer LCNS, 2005, ISBN 3-540-30737-0

Additional information European champions title in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, obtained in the RoboLudens 2006 event, in Eindhoven, Holland, for the “FC Portugal” team; Participation certificate for the “RoboCup 2006” event in Bremen, Germany, for the “FC Portugal” team, in the “Rescue Simulation” competition; Participation certificate for the “RoboCup 2005” event in Osaka, Japan, for the “FC Portugal” team, in the “Rescue Simulation” competition; Founding member of the FC Portugal Rescue team; Attendance of the “Robótica 2005” conference, in Coimbra, as a spectator and in “Robótica 2006”, in Guimarães, presenting a poster; Creation, for the “Sistemas de Informação” (Information Systems) subject, of a database enabled website for a (fictitious) computer store, using PHP and SQL, obtaining a classification of 17 (in a scale from 1 to 20); Production of a virtual robot, in OpenGL, for the Sistemas Gráficos (Graphical Systems) subject, obtaining a classification of 18 (in a scale from 1 to 20); Elaboration of an opinion article for the Televisão Digital (Digital Television) subject, obtaining a classification of 18 (in a scale from 1 to 20); Participation certificate for the 40th International Mathematics Olympics, in Bucharest, Romania, in 1999. Participation certificate for the XIV and XVII “Olimpíadas Nacionais de Matemática” Portuguese Mathematics Olympics, in 1996 (Castelo Branco) and 1999 (Santarém), obtaining two medals, Bronze and Gold, respectively. References available upon request.

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Areas of professional interest Mobile communications (especially on subjects relating to contents and cell phone OSs and applications); Programming; Artificial Intelligence; Nanotechnology; Robotics; Automation and computerization of processes; Web interfaces.

Areas of personal interest Consumer electronics; New technologies and new technological applications; Computer science and networking; Maths; Quantum physics; Astronomy; Economy and stock markets; Biology and bioengineering; Epidemiology; Chess; Literature; Board games, logical puzzles and charades; Music; Movies; Theatre; Tourism.

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