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Fábio Ruben Silva Mendonça

Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering

Penteada University Campus , Floor 2, Office 2.90

fabioruben@staff.uma.pt

(+351) 291 705 290 / 5290

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"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks." - Stephen Hawking.

Biographical Notes

Fábio Mendonça received the BS and MSc degrees in electrical and telecommunications engineering from University of Madeira, and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. He works at the University of Madeira and is a researcher with the Interactive Technologies Institute - LARSyS.

Publications

- A deep learning approach for improving spatiotemporal resolution of numerical weather prediction forecasts, Alves, D., Mendonça, F., Mostafa, S., Morgado-Dias, F., Nature - Scientific Reports, 2025, 11

- A Multi-Stage Dataset for Banana Bunch Detection and Harvesting Decision Support, Baglat, P., Mendonça, F., Mostafa, S. e Morgado-Dias, F., Data in Brief, 2025

- A networked station system for high-resolution wind nowcasting in air traffic operations: A data-augmented deep learning approach, D. Alves, F. Mendonça, S. Mostafa, D. Freitas, J. Pestana, D. Vieira, M. Radeta, F. Morgado-Dias, PLOS ONE, 2025, 1

- Comparative Analysis and Evaluation of YOLO Generations for Banana Bunch Detection, Baglat, P., Ahatsham, H., Mostafa, S., Mendonça, F., and Morgado-Dias, F., Smart Agricultural Technology, 2025

- Deep Learning Approaches for Skin Lesion Detection, Vieira, J., Mendonça, F. e Morgado-Dias, F., Electronics, 2025

- Deep Learning Enhanced Wind Speed and Direction Forecasting for Airport Regions, Alves, D., F. Mendonça, S. S. Mostafa, and F. Morgado-Dias, Weather and Forecasting, 2025, 1

- Evaluating LLMs for Automated Scoring in Formative Assessments, P. C. Mendonça, F. Quintal e F. Mendonça, Applied Sciences, 2025

- Intelligent visibility forecasting at airports: a systematic review, Alves, D., Belo-Pereira, M., Mendonça, F., and Morgado-Dias, F., Environmental Research Communications, 2025, 15

- Multithreaded and GPU-Based Implementations of a Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Application to Solving Large-Scale Systems of Nonlinear Equations, B. Silva, L. Lopes, and F. Mendonça, Electronics, 2025, 36

- Optimizing an LSTM Self-Attention Architecture for Portuguese Sentiment Analysis Using a Genetic Algorithm, Parada, D., Branco, A., Silva, M., Mendonça, F., Mostafa, S., and Morgado-Dias, F., Applied Sciences, 2025, 22

Academic Qualifications

- PhD in Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, 2021, Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico (Alameda) (após 2013/14)

- Master Degree in Engenharia Eletrotécnica - Telecomunicações, 2016, Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia

- Undergraduate Degree in Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações, 2013, University of Madeira