Archive: Projects & Papers
A complete catalog of research publications, academic projects, challenge solutions, and theses.
Research Publications
Refrigerated Containers as Distributed Thermal Energy Storage: Performance and Control Strategies in Port of Sines’ Microgrid
Rui Rodrigues; Adrian Carrillo-Galvez; Tiago Soares; Zenaida Mourão; Pedro Costa; João Almeida • Journal of Energy Storage
Loyalty and Tier-Based Benefit Allocation Frameworks for Renewable Energy Communities
Rui Rodrigues; José Villar; Alexandre Lucas; João Sousa • Utilities Policy
Optimal Membership for Anchor-Centric Renewable Energy Communities
João Sousa; Rui Rodrigues; Alexandre Lucas; José Villar; Alexandre Chaves • EEM
Simulation-Based Assessment of Decarbonization Alternatives in Container Terminals
Adrian Carrillo-Galvez, Rui Rodrigues, et al. • OSMSES
Data-Driven Digitalization of Container Ship Electrical Systems for AI-Ready Onshore Power Supply Demand Estimation
Pedro Costa; Rui Rodrigues; João Almeida; Adrian Carrillo-Galvez; Tiago Soares; Zenaida Mourão • EFEA
Academic Projects & Prototypes
OptEV: Smart Fleet Charging Optimization
Mathematical optimization prototype (using MILP models) designed to find the cost-optimal charging schedule for electric vehicle fleets.
Tecstorm 2026 Finalist
Semantic Segmentation of Maritime Thermal Imagery
Implemented a custom lightweight U-Net architecture utilizing Convolutional Block Attention Modules (CBAM) and Focal Loss for obstacle detection in highly imbalanced LWIR datasets.
FEUP • Grade: 20/20
Grade 20/20
Neural Network Forecast for Sparse Fashion Retail
Developed a PyTorch neural network combining rich daily feature extraction and K-Means clustering embeddings to forecast SKU sales in a highly intermittent and sparse fashion retail environment.
FEUP • Grade: 20/20
Grade 20/20
Dynamic Promotion and Restocking Optimization for Multi-Product Perishable Inventory
Developed an event-driven environment and employed a QR-DQN Reinforcement Learning approach able to beat heuristics, while showing value from combining pricing and restocking.
FEUP • Grade: 20/20
Grade 20/20
Integrated Car Rental Fleet Management: A Matheuristic Approach
Developed a matheuristic approach for pricing and deployment on car rentals, with a strategy scalable to large and realistic size networks (generated to be much larger than benchmarks).
FEUP • Grade: 19.5/20
Grade 19.5/20
Network Optimization - Sonae MC
Sonae MC challenge to design the transportation network, as well as fleet size and mix to minimize total costs and maximize efficiency responding to a growing number of proximity stores.
FEUP / Sonae MC • Winner
Challenge Winner