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Electrical engineer with experience in embedded systems and power converter control.

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RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Proposed a grid-forming control strategy for the boost, Ćuk, and SEPIC converters. The strategy uses feedback linearization and model predictive control to regulate the energy of these converters and provide the grid-forming behavior, while accounting for duty cycle and input current constraints.
Designed and implemented a real-time controller based on the Zynq-7000 SoC, using one core of the processor to serve a TCP-based command-line interface, the second core to run real-time control algorithms, and the FPGA to interface with power converters by generating PWM signals and reading ADCs
Created Python-based tools to parametrize and fetch data from networked real-time controllers for debugging, operation and automation purposes
Built several prototypes for research and teaching, including a minimal 700 V dc grid for experiments with supercapacitors, a four-switch buck-boost converter, and an isolated Ćuk converter
Supervised 7 master theses and 5 bachelor theses
Published 7 research papers and attended 5 international conferences

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 time-domain and frequency-domain algorithms for ultrasonic imaging with Python

The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

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)

Technical School of Electronics (ETEL), Ipaussu, SP, Brazil

Pato Branco, PR, Brazil

Project hosted by the business incubator at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná to develop a smart irrigation automation system based on soil moisture measurements
Co-authored two successful grant proposals, obtaining funding for the research and development of the smart irrigation system
Wrote the firmware for an irrigation controller with sectoring capabilities and moisture parametrization using C and FreeRTOS
Designed and prototyped a wired capacitive soil moisture sensor
Supervised the development of a wireless capacitive soil moisture sensor using LoRa for data transmission

Pato Branco, PR, Brazil

Analyzed, simulated and prototyped analog circuits for magnetostrictive sensors for fuel gauging
Wrote firmware in C to interface NXP microcontrollers to time-of-flight ICs

Burlington, VT, USA

10-week summer internship at the Dunlop Lab
Prototyped a platform for holding test tubes and exposing them to controlled LED illumination for optogenetics experiments
Cultured bacteria and conducted optogenetics experiments

Pato Branco, PR, Brazil

Piraju, SP, Brazil

Wrote firmware in Assembly to interface PIC microcontrollers to RFID key fobs and flash memories, including seed-key codification

OPiL is a framework that enables Processor-in-the-Loop testing independent of the simulation platform and the real-time target
Its main use is to allow the development and validation of complex controllers (e.g., model predictive controllers) in a closed-loop environment

OCP is a framework for automating tests of embedded controllers
It contains a C library for the real-time target that manages the selection and parametrization of controllers, a scope functionality to store measurements and internal signals during transients, and runs a TCP server to provide an external interface
It contains a Python module to interface with the real-time target in order to write and read parameters, making it possible to automate testing

A python package to simulate linear model predictive control of discrete-time systems
Capable of C code generation with the option to use a custom QP solver or OSQP
Contains control design functions for some dc-dc converter topologies

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.