Research
My research explores how distributed systems, data, and thoughtful interfaces can make complex infrastructure easier to understand and operate.
Scientific Papers
First author · 26th Brazilian Congress of Automation (CBA) · 2026
Scalable and Interoperable Web SCADA System for Electric Bicycle Sharing Based on the IEC 61850 Standard
A distributed monitoring architecture for shared electric bicycles, combining IEC 61850/MMS interoperability, real-time Web SCADA supervision, Kubernetes autoscaling, and a virtualized testbed validated with up to 1,000 simulated bicycles.
Scholarship: PIBITI/CNPq, advised by Prof. Yona Lopes
Project funding: MoveUFF is part of HUBMOB, funded by Finep (economic subsidy) in partnership with Bike Fácil
Authors: João L. Marinho*, Giovanna Siqueira**, Nájila Martins**, and Yona Lopes**
Read the paperOngoing Research
2026 · Combinatorial optimization · Python · CVRPLIB
CVRP Route Optimization
A reproduction and extension of a genetic algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, enhanced with Clarke-Wright Savings and 2-opt. The implementation reduced the average gap from 15.45% to 8.25% and outperformed the paper's baseline in 9 of 10 benchmark instances.
Advisor: Prof. Luiz Satoru Ochi (Institute of Computing, UFF)
Status: experiments completed; paper in preparation
View source code2026 · Undergraduate thesis · Human-Computer Interaction
From Monitoring to Decision-Making: User-Centered Redesign of the MoveUFF Supervisory System
Advisors: Prof. Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado and Prof. Yona Lopes (co-advisor)
Status: in progress, expected December 2026
Events
- 2026 · 26th Brazilian Congress of Automation (CBA), São Paulo: oral presentation of the paper above
- 2025 · 10th Southeast Regional School of High Performance Computing (ERAD-SE), SBC, Niterói: attendee
- 2024 · 9th Rio de Janeiro Regional School of High Performance Computing (ERAD-RJ), SBC, Rio de Janeiro: attendee