Education
2015 PhD, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal. Thesis Title: "Hybrid Hypervisor Partially Deployed on FPGA". Doctoral work included research periods at the University of Wurzburg, Germany, and the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
2011 MSc in Real Time Embedded Systems, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal. Thesis Title: "M2uP – Multithreading Microprocessor: Front-End implementation". Graduate work included research periods at the University of Maribor, Germany, and the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
2008 BSc in Industrial Electronics and Computers, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal.
Grants Awarded
Thailand :
2023 PMU-C: "A Holographic Health Information Platform for Patient Education Delivering Personalized Genetic Counselling to Users", with Bumrungrand Hospital, 9.9M THB (Co-PI)
Publications
Journal articles :
2023 Fryer, J. and Garcia, P.: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Practices and Perspectives on Hardware Acceleration for Embedded Image Processing", Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer (accepted pending minor revisions: revisions submitted)
2022 Cook, Sebastien, and Paulo Garcia. "Arbitrarily Parallelizable Code: A Model of Computation Evaluated on a Message-Passing Many-Core System." Computers 11, no. 11 (2022): 164.
2020 Garcia, P.; Darroch, F.; West, L.; BrooksCleator, L., "Ethical Applications of Big Data-Driven AI on Social Systems: Literature Analysis and Example Deployment Use Case", Information 2020, 11, 235.
2019 Robert Stewart, Bernard Berthomieu, Paulo Garcia, Idris Ibrahim, Greg Michaelson, Andrew Wallace, "Verifying parallel dataflow transformations with model checking and its application to FPGAs", Journal of Systems Architecture
2019 Garcia, P.; Bhowmik, D.; Stewart, R.; Michaelson, G.; Wallace, A. Optimized Memory Allocation and Power Minimization for FPGA-Based Image Processing. J. Imaging 2019, 5, 7.
2018 Robert Stewart, Kirsty Duncan, Greg Michaelson, Paulo Garcia, Deepayan Bhowmik, and Andrew Wallace. 2018. RIPL: A Parallel Image Processing Language for FPGAs. ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst. 11, 1, Article 7 (March 2018)
2016 T. Gomes, P. Garcia, S. Pinto, J. Monteiro and A. Tavares, "Bringing Hardware Multithreading to the Real-
Time Domain," in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 2-5, March 2016.
2016 P. Garcia, T. Gomes, J. Monteiro, A. Tavares and M. Ekpanyapong, "On-Chip Message Passing Sub-System for Embedded Inter-Domain Communication," in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 15, no.1, pp. 33-36, Jan.-June 1, 2016.
2016 Gomes, T.; Pereira, P.; Garcia, P.; Salgado, F.; Silva, V.; Pinto, S.; Tavares, A., “Hybrid Real-Time Operating Systems: Deployment of Critical FreeRTOS Features on FPGA,” International Journal of Embedded Systems 2016 8:5-6, 483-492, Inderscience
2015 Gomes, T.; Garcia, P.; Salgado, F.; Monteiro, J.; Ekpanyapong, M.; Tavares, A., "Task-Aware Interrupt Controller: Priority Space Unification in Real-Time Systems," Embedded Systems Let- ters, IEEE, vol.7, no.1, pp.27,30, March 2015
2014 Garcia, P., Tiago Gomes, Filipe Salgado, Joao Monteiro, and Adriano Tavares, "Towards Hardware Embedded Virtualization Technology: Architectural Enhancements to an ARM SoC", ACM SIGBED REVIEW, Volume 11, Number 2, June 2014
2012 Nuno Cardoso, Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Vale, Paulo Garcia, Paulo Cardoso, Joao Monteiro, Jorge Cabral, Jose Mendes, Mongkol Ekpanyapong and Adriano Tavares: "A generative-oriented model-driven design environment for customizable video surveillance systems", EURASIP Jour- nal on Embedded Systems, 2012