Summary
Electrical engineer with experience in embedded systems and power converter control.
Education
Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften 08/2020 - current RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Research on model predictive grid forming control of dc-dc converters
- Prototyped experimental setups of power converters and dc grids
- Implemented real-time control algorithms with the Zynq-7000 SoC
- Supervised 7 master theses and 5 bachelor theses
- Published 7 research papers and attended 5 international conferences
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering 09/2018 - 08/2020 Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Pato Branco, PR, Brazil
- Thesis: Implementation of frequency-domain algorithms for ultrasonic imaging based on interpolation-free Stolt migration
- Implemented and optimized algorithms for ultrasonic imaging with Python
Undegraduate Exchange Student in Electrical Engineering 08/2015 - 05/2016 The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
- Designed and prototyped a device for monitoring ICU patients as final project
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering 11/2012 - 09/2018 Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Pato Branco, PR, Brazil
- Thesis: A comparative study and analysis between the compressed sensing and undersampling techniques
- Physics teaching assistant (10/2014 - 05/2015)
- Physics research assistant (10/2013 - 04/2015)
- Simulation of tapered fiber optics to detect water quality
- Tutored workshops
- Introduction to Matlab (4h, 09/2017)
- Introduciton to Python (4h, 09/2018)
Electronics technician 02/2009 - 12/2011 Technical School of Electronics (ETEL), Ipaussu, SP, Brazil
Work experience
Developer at Xpert Automation Technology 11/2017 - 09/2018 Pato Branco, PR, Brazil
- Analyzed and prototyped analog circuits for magnetostrictive sensors for fuel gauging
- Wrote firmware in C for NXP microcontrollers
- Used LTSpice to simulate amplifier and filter circuits
- Designed and prototyped PCBs
Research assistant at the University of Vermont 05/2016 - 07/2016 Burlington, VT, USA
- 10-week summer internship at the Dunlop Lab
- Prototyped a platform for optogenetics research
- Cultured bacteria and conducted optogenetics experiments
Teaching assistant at National Service of Industrial Training 07/2013 - 12/2013 02/2015 - 06/2015 Pato Branco, PR, Brazil
- Lectures on digital electronics and microcontrollers with C programming
- Supervised students’ final projects
Developer at Chiptronic Automotive Technology 02/2012 - 11/2012 Piraju, SP, Brazil
- Interfaced RFID key fobs with microcontrollers, including seed-key codification
- Designed and implemented assembly libraries for PIC microcontrollers
Projects
OPiL — an Open Processor-in-the-Loop framework
- A modular C-based framework enabling closed-loop testing of embedded controllers
OCP — the Open Controller Project
- A framework combining Python and C for automating tests of embedded controllers
pyctl — A Python package for predictive control
- Simulation of model predictive control and code generation for embedded controllers
List of selected publications
M. Guerreiro, S. Kharade, P. Santos and S. Liu, “Power Electronics Control with System-on-a-Chip-Based Platforms,” 2022 IEEE 20th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (PEMC), Brasov, Romania, 2022, pp. 353-359, doi: 10.1109/PEMC51159.2022.9962949.
M. Guerreiro, W. Becker, P. Santos and S. Liu, “An Open Processor-in-the-Loop Framework for Power Converter Control,” IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312423.
M. Guerreiro, P. Santos and S. Liu, “Voltage Control of the Ćuk Converter for Grid-Forming in DC Grids: An Energy-Based Approach,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1388-1395, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2024.3425518.