DrTiago Tamagusko

Tiago Tamagusko is a transport engineer building the tools that let cities count and assess walking and cycling the way they already count cars. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin and Principal Investigator of CAMINA (co-PI Prof. Francesco Pilla), an open-source edge-AI sensor that counts pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooters, and vehicles on the device, with no images transmitted. CAMINA is currently in laboratory validation. He also leads data analytics and spatial analysis for the Horizon Europe project REALLOCATE, which spans more than ten cities and 16 living labs, and oversees vision-language-model development for COLOURWAYS.

From 2013 to 2018, he worked as a road infrastructure engineer in Brazil, where he co-developed the national high-speed weigh-in-motion standard with the federal transport agency (DNIT) and contributed to the deployment of 35 stations on the federal highway network. His PhD in Transport Systems (University of Coimbra, 2024, highest distinction) applied machine learning to pavement and infrastructure management.

He is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Brazil, where he designed and teaches two doctoral courses on AI and deep learning for transportation. He has 17 peer-reviewed publications, has supervised three student research internships, and evaluates proposals for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).