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Henrique Diogo Silva
Designing systems for users,
and, on my good days, for people.
I’m the Area Manager for Data & Information Management and AI at INESC TEC’s Industrial & Systems Engineering and Management centre, and a Digital Media Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
Research Interests
My research and ongoing Ph.D. work sit at the intersection of Digital Platforms and Digital Twin technologies, exploring new approaches to digital transformation and how these systems can be designed to generate added value within the industrial fabric.
In the past years, I’ve been a part of several international R&D industrial projects funded by H2020 and Horizon Europe programs, leading the development of innovative information systems for sectors like machinery and textiles.
I’m fascinated with technology but can’t seem to let go of the fact that intelligent, flawed, and opinionated humans have to use it.
Publications & Other Writing
In esrever chronological order:
Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics · Springer Nature Switzerland
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer Nature Switzerland
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer Nature Switzerland
2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management · IEEE
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer Nature Switzerland
Conference poster on a digital-twin-based industrial platform concept.
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Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering · Springer International Publishing
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer International Publishing
IFAC-PapersOnLine · Elsevier
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer International Publishing
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · Springer International Publishing
2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS) · IEEE
Grants & Projects
"Develop innovative solutions in the areas of digital architectures and data management and governance models for operational technologies (OT) (...)"
Developed a concept for capturing tacit construction knowledge, structuring it into reusable knowledge, and delivering an AI-powered service to support decisions on site, with expert validation.
Maturity assessment and strategic roadmap to implement the management of operational technologies (OT).
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Defined data protocols for communication between IT and OT layers, establishing how operational data is structured and exchanged across the digital architecture.
4 month exchange at MIT's Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) to develope the sociotechnical aspects of digital industrial platform development.
"Introduce the digital transformation in power transformers where a DT, as virtual counterpart of the physical system will enable disruptive approaches for design and manufacturing"
"Design and prototype a digital platform for a multi-sided market placing the Digital-Twin as the core architectural element for managing the data and information"
"Create from scratch a distributed Teaching and Learning Factory (...)" with FEUP, INEGI, Arts et Métiers, Aalto and SUPSI, then "deliver innovative courses enabling the financial exploitation of educational assets" such as learning nuggets and Teaching and Learning Factories.
"Creates a European platform-enabled ecosystem acting as a virtual marketplace, bringing available manufacturing capacity closer to production demand (...)"
"(...) development of a highly innovative global energy efficiency management platform, targeting medium and large facilities in both the industry and service sectors."
Activities & Conferences
- Hackathon Participation: AI Fixathon 2026 - Knowledge-as-a-Service for Industrial Operations
- AI Fixathon 2026
- Final solution: OpSensus
- MIT Portugal 2023 Annual Conference Panel speaker: Transformer 4.0: Digital Revolution of Power Transformers
- Guest Lecture @ MIT: Digital Industrial Platforms as Infrastructure for Interorganizational Ecosystems
- 2023 class of System Design and Management
- Hackathon Mentor: U.Porto 2022 Hackathon in “Digital Media and Health Communication and Literacy
- Final solution: Começa Agora
- Hackathon Mentor: EMERGENCE @ U.Porto 2022 Hackathon - Digital Media Science Communication Hackathon
- EMERGENCE @ U.Porto 2022
- Final solution: TripaAdvisor
- Panel chair: PRO-VE 2021 - 22nd IFIP / SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
- Socio-technical Perspectives on Smart Product-Service Systems Session Description
- Hackathon Mentor: EMERGENCE@Açores 2021 Hackathon - Digital Media Science Communication Hackathon
- EMERGENCE @ Açores 2021
- Final solution: Aguenta-te Aí
- Organization Committee: DMDS 2021/22 - Digital Media Doctoral Symposium & Reboot Fest 2021 - New Media and Digital Art Festival
- Hackathon Researcher Lead: Hackathon Douro & Porto 2021
- Hackathon Douro & Porto 2021
- Final solution: SOS Vitis (Portuguese Only)
- Organization Committee: DMDS 2021 - Digital Media Doctoral Symposium
- Hackathon Participation: [email protected] 2021 Hackathon - Digital Media Science Communication Hackathon
- [email protected] 2021
- Final solution: SnapChem
- Doctoral Program in Digital Media Accompanying Committee