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        Sofia Pais Cerqueira
        Sofia Pais Cerqueira
        Sofia Pais Cerqueira
        Sofia Pais Cerqueira
        Curriculum Vitae
        Sofia Pais Cerqueira

        Curriculum Vitae

        Sofia Pais Cerqueira

        FCT Research Grant with LNEC Increase

        scerqueira@lnec.pt

        218 443 813

        Ciência ID - 271A-06A9-78A0

        ORCID ID - 0000-0002-5477-3661


        Professional Situation

        Research Fellow at FCT with LNEC Enhancement

        Academic and Scientific Degrees

        • Ph.D. (ongoing) in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico.
        • Master's  Degree (2021) in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior  Técnico, with dissertation theme: "Integrative traffic flow analysis of  public transport data in the city of Lisbon". Bachelor's Degree (2018)  in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico.

        Functions and Relevant Public Offices

        • Research fellowship in the  project "Integrative learning from urban data" - Fundação para a  Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (2020-2022)
        • Ph.D. Research Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia with LNEC Enhancement (2023 – ongoing)

        Areas of Research / Interest

        • Spatio-temporal Data Mining
        • Machine Learning
        • Data Visualization
        • Data integration

        Research and Professional Activity

        • "Integrative learning from  urban data" ILU project, contribution to tasks 3 (Data preparation and  integration) and 4 (Exploratory multi-source urban data analysis) (site:  http://web.ist.utl.pt/rmch/ilu/tasks/)
        • Advanced multimodal  marketplace for low-emission and energy transportation (ADMIRAL) - EU  project, contribution to workpackage 2 and 5 (site:  https://www.admiral-project.eu/)
        • Teaching in Higher Education
        • Teaching  Assistant at Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico,  Portugal in the curricular units Database and Information Processing and  Retrieval (2021/10/01 - 2022/07/31)

        Relevant Publications

        Conference Papers

        • Cerqueira,  S., Arsenio, E., & Henriques, R. (2023). Is there any best practice  principles to estimate bus alighting passengers from incomplete smart  card transactions?. Transportation Research Procedia, 72, 3395-3402.
        • Cerqueira,  S., Arsénio, E., & Henriques, R. (2022). Inference of differential  Origin-Destination Matrices to access the spatio-temporal attractiveness  of Publictransport in relation to car travel: A case study in the city  of Lisbon. European Transport Conference.
        • Cerqueira, S.,  Arsenio, E., & Henriques, R. (2024). Freight Demand Modeling for  Green and Digital Logistics. Transport Research Arena.

        Journal Articles

        • Cerqueira,  S., Arsenio, E., & Henriques, R. (2021). On how to incorporate  public sources of situational context in descriptive and predictive  models of traffic data. European transport research review, 13, 1-22.
        • Cerqueira,  S., Arsenio, E., & Henriques, R. (2022). Inference of dynamic  origin–destination matrices with trip and transfer status from  individual smart card data. European Transport Research Review, 14(1),  42.
        • Cerqueira, S., Arsenio, E., Barateiro, J., & Henriques,  R. (2024). Moving from classical towards machine learning stances for  bus passengers’ alighting estimation: A comparison of state-of-the-art  approaches in the city of Lisbon. Transportation Engineering, 16,  100239.