Francisco Pereira
Francisco Pereira
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Future Urban Mobility project
Francisco C. Pereira is Senior Research Scientist at ITSLab under Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Future Urban Mobility project (SMART/FM), where he works on advanced data collection technologies, real-time traffic prediction and behavior modeling. He is based in Singapore and locally leads the ITSLab team, being actively involved in FMS, DynaMIT2.0 and SimMobility. His main research focus is on applying machine learning and pattern recognition to the context of transportation systems with the purpose of understanding and predicting mobility behavior, and modeling and optimizing the transportation system as a whole.
He worked at the Senseable City Lab, as a postdoctoral research fellow, during 2009/10 and has been collaborating with the MIT ITSLab since 2008. He holds an assistant professor position since 2005 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal from where he also has a PhD degree (January 2005). The thesis relates Artificial Intelligence with Creativity and originated a book.
He was recently awarded the prestigious Singapore Challenge 2013 prize for a collaborative paper with researchers from A*Star, SUTD and MIT, and he has authored/co-authored a long list of journal and conference papers in areas such as pattern recognition, transportation, knowledge based systems or cognitive science.
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