Paulo Leitao

PhD students

On-going

• Júlio Costa, “Developing an Agentic AI Architecture for Industrial Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing Assets”, PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (start: september 2025)
• João Simões, “Study of the limitations of LMMs regarding formal reasoning and possible solutions to overcome the problems”, PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (start: september 2025)
• Romina Eliana Giugge, “SSIO-IoT-Digital Twin framework supporting predictive maintenance in Offshore Renewable Energy Platforms”, PhD in Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (start: september 2025)
• Zied Ben Cheikh, “Artificial Intelligence based Roadmap Models to Drive Industry 4.0 Adoption”, PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (start: september 2025)
• Lucas Santos Pinow, “Enhancing Industrial and IoT Integration through Intelligent Data Acquisition and Smart Sensor Technology”, PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (start: september 2024)
• Leonardo de Oliveira Souza Mendonça, “Advanced Predictive Maintenance for Fault Detection and Health Condition in Industrial Machinery”, PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (start: september 2024)
• Miguel Afonso Beckers, “Técnicas Automáticas de Supervisão Sensorial para a Indústria de Moldes”, PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (start: september 2024)
• Alexandre Oliveira Junior, “Enabling Innovative Digital Twins Solutions with AI-based Simulation Models aiming Zero Defects Manufacturing”, Programa de Doctorado em Ingeniería Industrial, Informática e Medioambiental na Universidade de La Laguna, Spain (start: November 2023)
• Gustavo Funchal, “AI na implementação de mecanismos de Cyber-segurança em Aplicações IIoT”, Programa de Doctorado "Ingeniería Informática" at Universidade de Salamanca, Spain (start: September 2021)
• Victória Melo, “Digital Twin in Manufacturing Systems”, Programa de Doctorado "Ingeniería Informática" at Universidade de Salamanca, Spain (start: September 2021)

Finished

1. Arthur Rossi, “Metodologia Integrada para Diagnósticode Desperdicio na Transformação Digital: Uma Abordagem das Dimensões Digital, Energetica e Humana”, Programa de Doutoramento em Engenharia de Produção at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – Campus de Ponta Grossa (publlic defense: 5th May 2026)
2. Lucas Sakurada, “An Industrial Agent-Based Approach to Designing Asset Administration Shells Type 3”, Programa de Doctorado "Ingeniería Informática" at Universidade de Salamanca, Spain (publlic defense: 25 September 2025)
3. Luís Piardi, "Scalability and prediction of failures in multi-agent systems applied in industrial environments", PhD in Engenharia Elétrica e Informática Industrial at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil (public defense: 26th June 2025).
4. Flávia Pires, "Trustable Intelligent Decision Support for Enhancing Industrial Digital Twins", in Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores at University of Porto, Portugal (public defense: 6th June 2024).
5. Filipe Marcelo Alves, "Distributed scheduling based on multi-agent system swarm approach for collaborative optimization", in Engenharia Industrial e de Sistemas at University of Minho, Portugal (public defense: 28th July 2023).
6. Jonas Queiroz, "An Agent-based Approach to Design Decentralized Cloud-Edge Data Analysis in Cyber-Physical System", in Informatics Engineering at University of Porto, Portugal (public defense: 14th June 2022).
7. Nelson Rodrigues, "Framework for Dynamic Service Reconfiguration in Service-oriented Multi-agent Systems", in Informatics Engineering at University of Porto, Portugal (public defense: 16th December 2019).
8. Ricardo Peres, "A Predictive Manufacturing Framework for Smart Factory Environments", in Electrical and Computer Engineering at New University of Lisbon, Portugal (public defense: 5th December 2019).
9. José Fernando Jimenez, "Dynamic and hybrid architecture for the optimal reconfiguration of control systems: application to manufacturing control”, PhD in Automatique – Génie Informatique at the University of Valenciennes, France (public defense: 7th November 2017).
10. José Barbosa, "Specification of a Multi-agent Architecture for Production Control Exhibiting Self-organization and Self-adaptation Properties”, PhD in Automatique – Génie Informatique at the University of Valenciennes, France (public defense: 18th February 2015).
11. João Marco Mendes, “Engineering Framework for Service-oriented Automation Systems”, PhD in Informatics Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal (public defense: 21st February 2011).

Colaboration in the supervision

• Lorenzo Stroppa, "Self-adapting robot vision system: design and development of a quality control agente for inteligente manufacturing systems”, PhD in Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale da Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy (public defense: 22nd February 2013) (Formal supervisor: Prof. Doutor Nicola Paone).