Vaibhav Shah Email & Phone Number

Guimarães, Braga, Portugal

Guimarães Area, Portugal

Teaching in two Masters Degree Engineering courses: • Information Systems Engineering and Management• Telecommunications and Information EngineeringGiving lectures on following two curricular units: Computational Systems • Computer Architecture • Numerical Systems Conversions • Memory Management • Assembly Language ProgrammingDatabase Management Systems • Understanding Data • Defining Requirements • Defining Data Model • Designing and Implementation of Database • SQL Queries Other duties include: • Preparation of Course Materials • Preparation of Exams and Solutions • Conducting Exams and Papers Corrections • Giving additional consultation

Guimarães Area, Portugal

As a consultant at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance, reporting to the head of UNU-EGOV, main duties include:• Collecting, organising, and analysing information on smart cities to elaborate and update case studies for various projects and platforms;• Supporting multi-disciplinary desk and field research as required;• Developing and reviewing project deliverables;• Maintaining databases of contacts and useful information sources in the smart cities field;• Editing, proofread, and guarantee quality of all documents related to the research line;• Assisting in project-related communications and relationship management of events organised by UNU-EGOV (training sessions, expert group meetings, workshops, etc);• Perform other duties as required.

Guimarães Area, Portugal

At the ALGORITMI Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Minho.Project: “INNOVCAR: Innovation for Intelligent Vehicles”.BOSCH Car Multimedia-University of Minho Industry-Academia collaboration project.Main tasks included:• Review of state-of-the-art literature on Road Pavement Quality monitoring Applications and Services.• Characterization of the main issues and challenges related to the acquisition of data in mobile devices in the context of road pavement quality analysis.• Service definition and various Road Condition service components.• Development of Cloud Architecture based Systems for Smart Cars;• Development of theoretical concepts for “Driver Style” and “Pavement Quality”;• Define and develop use cases and prototype applications framework;• Development of Machine Learning Application for Road Anomalies Detection;• Develop the SW/HW infrastructure to acquire, collect and compute data for concept validation;• Machine Learning Model Training, to create / train an intelligent anomaly recognition system;• Tests and experiments of Identification and Recognition of Road Pavements Anomalies, and results analysis;• Definition / evaluation planning of Machine Learning Models and the Data Mining approach for the Road Condition service.• Systematization of the main challenges in the field of design and development of Data Analytics frameworks in Urban Computing.• Analysis of Classification Accuracy as well as Machine Learning Algorithms and System Evaluation;• Definition of a new revised approach to the intelligent system based on the System Performance Analysis, and further experiments.• Writing technical reports and publication of results in Peer-reviewed Journals as well as conferences.Project co-financed by FEDER through funding programmes Portugal 2020 and COMPETE.

Guimarães Area, Portugal

Worked at the Perception, Interaction & Usability (PIU) laboratory at the Centre for Computer Graphics (CCG), situated in the Azurém campus.“INNOVCAR: Innovation for Intelligent Vehicles”. Research Project between BOSCH Car Multimedia and University of Minho.Main tasks included: • Virtual Environment Creation in SILAB for Driver Behaviour Analysis;• User-friendly Car Dashboard Environment Creation;• Multi-variate Data Analysis for the following: • Eye-tracking and Motion Capture Analysis; • Human-Machine Interface Analysis;• Writing technical reports.

Guimarães Area, Portugal

“Improvement of Partnership with Enterprises by Enhancement of a Regional Quality Management Potentials in Western Balkan Countries - EQIWBC”.Reference: 543662-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-ME-TEMPUS-JPHES

Guimarães Area, Portugal

“Design and Development of new generation of Crane Cabins as Integrated Visual Systems for Environmental Detection and Interpretation”.Reference: EUREKA PROJECT E!6761 CABIVS

Guimarães Area, Portugal

“Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for Remote Collaborative Control of Manufacturing Systems”• Design and implementation of two Graphical User Interfaces for Remote Collaborative Control of Manufacturing Systems• Total Remote controlling of CNC machines with Live Video Feed • Experiments on the System from a remote location (machines were based in Portugal, while the operators were in Serbia).• Analysis of Users' behaviour as well as User satisfaction• Publication of results in Peer-reviewed Journals as well as at International conferences.This was a Transnational Project between Portugal and Serbia, funded by the respective countries' research funding Government bodies.

Guimarães Area, Portugal

EUREKA (Reference: EUREKA PROJECT E!4177- PRO-FACTORY UES)“Ubiquitous Oriented Embedded Systems for Globally Distributed Factories of Manufacturing Enterprises - UES”.• Implementation of a Prototype of Ubiquitous Oriented Embedded Systems• Experiments and Results Analysis for the Embedded Manufacturing System• Writing technical reports and results presentation

Intelligent/Innovative Production Machines and Systems (I*PROMS) network-of-excellence (NoE) project with the European 6th Framework (FP6) Programme Grant, in partnership with various European Universities and Industry members.Work summary: Design and implementation of networked manufacturing system architecture; and prototype and laboratory pilot installation of a Ubiquitous Manufacturing System as a service supply network (service supply chain), with video interface and remote controlling of manufacturing cells.Tasks in detail:• Analysis and State-of-the-art study of Ubiquitous Manufacturing System and Virtual Enterprises concepts and Development of Prototype Software Demonstrators• Designing the User-friendly Graphical Interfaces for a Networked Manufacturing System• Implementation of Several Key components and Features of Ubiquitous Manufacturing System• Implementation of Remote Controlling System to operate on Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machines Remotely, with Live Video Feed• Remotely Uploading Machining Programs for Remote Manufacturing• System deployment, experimentation and results analysis• Publication of results in Peer-reviewed Journals as well as Paper presentations at International Conferences• Organisation of Researchers Meetings as well as participation in Research Symposiums

Ahmedabad Area, India

"Handwritten Character Recognition of Ancient Indic Manuscripts"at Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra, Koba. Project Managed by Chattary InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. Main tasks included:• Led a highly ambitious and challenging OCR project, as initiated and fully-funded by Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir, Koba, to digitize the world’s biggest collection of ancient Indic manuscripts, written in complex ancient Indian languages, through automatic handwritten character recognition system. (www.kobatirth.org)• Performed evaluation on the previously deployed Machine Learning system and its performance• Based on the analysis, defined a new strategy for better performance• Designed, Developed and deployed a new Artificial Intelligence model, using Fuzzy Logic based algorithm, as the pattern recognition engine and user interfaces (using MatLab and VB.NET).• Designed and Implemented a strategy to counter the challenge of compound letters found in Indian scripts with promising results• Experiments and Results analysis• Designing and development of Image processing modules• As a project leader, guided the team members involved in coding and deployment of other modules• System modelling and Documentation, and project management

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

The Business Engineering Group (BEG-St. Petersburg www.big.spb.ru)Proposed and implemented innovative techniques for portal management for better management of company’s knowledge assets.• Designed and implemented an Intelligent Knowledge Management System• Automatic Text Categorization through Domain Taxonomy• Multi-agent System Based Approach• Developed System to Process Russian language text• Developed Strategy to Counter the Challenge of Case based noun changes in Russian language

Ahmedabad Area, India

Software Engineer and Customer Support for:• Point of sale systems for Restaurants and Supermarkets• Developed Projects using Visual Basic and ASP• Updation of old modules as well as Development & Maintenance of new modules

Ahmedabad Area, India

Work summary:• Worked on Banking Software Solution Development and Maintenance • Software Development using Clipper programming language• Editing/updating Pre-existing software modules• Software testing

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence For Industrial Engineering, Highest Grade Awarded By The University

Activities and Societies: Participation in International and European (bilateral as well as multilateral) Projects; Organizer.

Master'S Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Excellent / Red Diplom (Красный Диплом)

Course topics included various areas of Artificial Intelligence, such as: • Artificial Neural Networks, • Fuzzy Logic, Systems Modelling.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Statistics - Mathematics, First

St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad

Bachelor Of Science, Statistics

Higher Secondary School (10+2), Maths-Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)