CLÁUDIA SOARES [email protected]

Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica

Rua António Albino Machado, 47,

Instituto Superior Técnico,

4o Frente

North tower, office 7.10

1600-011 Lisboa, Portugal

Rua Rovisco Pais, 1

Phone: +351 916 20 41 20

1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

RESE AR CH TOPIC S Network localization algorithms. Distributed optimization applications in synchronous and asynchronous time models. Robust algorithms for noisy environments.

EDUCATI ON P H D I N E LE CTR I CAL A ND CO MP U TE R E NG I NE ER I NG — 2016

Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico. Thesis title: “Distributed and robust network localization algorithms” Passed with distinction and honor. Advisor: Prof. João Pedro Castilho Pereira Santos Gomes Courses: Estimation and classification — 19/20, Inverse problems in signal and image processing— 19/20, Statistical learning — 19/20, Practice of teaching assistance — 19/20, Advanced topics in probability and stochastic processes — 14/20.

IN TE G R AT E D M A ST ER I N E L E CTRI CAL AN D CO MPU TE R E N GI N E E RI N G — 2 0 0 7

Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico. Major: Systems, decision and control. Minor: Computer engineering. Thesis title: “Automatic Word Recognition with Anthropomorphic Models for Speech Synthesis: Applications to Humanoid Robotics” Advisors: Profs. Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor

F R E Q U E NCY O F T HE M ASTE R PRO GR AM I N L I N GUI STI CS — 2 0 0 2

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas.

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L IC EN C I AT U R A IN M O DE RN L AN GUAGE S A ND L I TE RATU RE S — 2000

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas.

PUBLICATI ONS B. Quintino, J. Gomes, C. Soares, J. P. Costeira, “Collaborative Localization of Vehicle Formations Based on Ranges and Bearings,” Underwater Communications and Networking (UCOMMS), 2016 (Accepted) Soares, C.; Xavier, J.; Gomes, J., "Simple and Fast Convex Relaxation Method for Cooperative Localization in Sensor Networks Using Range Measurements," in Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol.63, no.17, pp.4532-4543, Sept.1, 2015 Soares, C.; Xavier, J.; Gomes, J., "Distributed, simple and stable network localization," in Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2014 IEEE Global Conference on, vol., no., pp.764-768, 3-5 Dec. 2014 Soares, C.; Xavier, J.; Gomes, J., "DCOOL-NET: Distributed cooperative localization for sensor networks,” Manuscript in preparation, available online. Soares, C.; Gomes, J., "Robust dissimilarity measure for Network Localization,” Manuscript in preparation, available online. Hörnstein, J.; Soares, C.; Santos-Victor, J.; Bernardino, A., “Early Speech Development of a Humanoid Robot using Babbling and Lip Tracking,” in Proc. of LANGRO 2007 Symposium on Language and Robots, Aveiro, Portugal, 2007 Soares, C.; Bernardino, A., “Mapping the vocal tract with a 2d vocalic articulatory space: applications to developmental robotics.” in Proc. of LANGRO 2007 - Symposium on Language and Robots, Aveiro, Portugal, 2007

GRA NTS AND FE LLOWSHIPS

The Contact Project (EU-FP6-NEST-5010)

at Vislab ISR/IST

2006 — 2007

FCT PhD Grant

at Sipg ISR/IST

2011 — 2015

CADDY Project (EU-FP7-ICT-2013)

at Sipg ISR/IST

2015 —

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CAMP US OR DEPARTAM ENTAL TALKS IST Mathematics department, “Distributed network localization: two intuitive, fast, and provably convergent algorithms under synchronous and randomized asynchronous time models,” Seminars in probability and statistics, October 14, 2015. IST PhD Open Days, “Distributed localization in sensor networks,” November 12, 2015.

RE SEAR CH EXP ERI ENCE PHD, 2 0 1 1 — 2016

• Design of convex approximations to the maximum likelihood estimator of the spacial positions of nodes in a network; • Design of algorithms with optimal convergence rate; • Development of strategies to address concerns of scalability, distributed computation, and robustness to outliers.

T H E CON TACT P ROJ E CT ( E U PROJ ECT) , 2006-2007

• Development of an architecture for incremental learning of speech sounds of any given language, inspired in the human language acquisition process; • Involvement in meetings of the project with the international partners and result reporting.

TEACHING E XP ERI ENCE D I G ITAL S I G NA L PRO CESSI N G - 2011/ 2012

Teaching Assistant, IST Production of teaching materials, some of which were adopted by professors of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

SERVI CE TO PR OF ESSION Journal manuscript review work for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

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NONACADEMIC WORK S O FT WARE E N GIN E E R

SISCOG, Sistemas Cognitivos, SA (2008 — 2010) • Contribution to the LISP development of the software platform for personnel scheduling, the core product of the company; • Member of the automatic planner team; • Development of a software module to incorporate personnel preferences and legal restrictions in the planning process; • Work in a team context and contact with clients. CAD E N GI NE ER

Chipidea (MIPS Analog Business Group) (2007 — 2008) Member of the company’s workflow reengineering team.

TECHNICAL SK ILLS Professional programming in MATLAB, C/C++, Python, LISP, Java, Mathematica, Perl and shell scripting. Knowledge of Oracle Database, MySQL, Ruby, among others.

PR OFESSIONAL ME MBERSHI PS OR AFFILI ATI ONS IEEE student member.

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