Pedro Alves Guedes

Biography

Pedro Emanuel de Alves Guedes was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1995. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2016 at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto - School of Engineering of Porto. He also earned his Master's degree in Autonomous Systems from the same institution in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering, since he earned a PhD Scholarship from the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) in 2021. Additionally, he serves as a Guest Assistant at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto - School of Engineering of Porto.
Pedro has been actively involved as a Researcher in two projects: MYTAG during his Master's degree and NETTAG+ during his PhD in INESCTEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência. His doctoral research focuses on underwater Multi-frequency multibeam echosounder acoustic image processing for the classification and detection of marine litter with machine learning.