Researcher

Ph.D. in Civil Systems, August 2017 -- May 2022 (Expected). Dissertation Title: Integrated Semantic Model and Machine Learning Formalisms for Event-Driven Behavior Modeling and Data-Driven Control of Large-Scale Resilient Urban Networks.

MS in Civil Systems, May 2015 -- May 2017. Master Thesis Title: Distributed System Behavior Modeling of Urban Systems with Ontologies, Rules and Message Passing Mechanisms.

BS in Civil Engineering, August 2011 -- May 2015. Cum Laude.

Publications:

• Coelho M., Austin M.A., Mishra S., and Blackburn M.R., Teaching Machines to Understand Urban Networks: A Graph Autoencoder Approach ( pdf ), International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services, Vol. 13, No 3 and 4, December 2020, pp. 70-81.
  
• Coelho M., Austin M.A., and Blackburn M.R., Teaching Machines to Understand Urban Networks, ( pdf ), The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems (ICONS), February 23-27 2020, pp. 37-42. Best Paper Award
• Austin M.A., Delgoshaei P., Coelho M. and Heidarinejad M., Architecting Smart City Digital Twins: A Combined Semantic Model and Machine Learning Approach, Journal of Management in Engineering, ( ASCE libary ), ASCE, Volume 36, Issue 4, July, 2020.
• Coelho M., Austin M.A., and Blackburn M.R., The Data-Ontology-Rule Footing: A Building Block for Knowledge-Based Development and Event-Driven Execution of Multi-Domain Systems, ( pdf ), 2018 Conference on Systems Engineering Research, Charlottsville, VA, May 8-9, 2018.  Also see: (Chapter 21, Systems Engineering in Context ), Springer, 2019.
• Blackburn M.R., Austin M.A., and Coelho M., Modeling and Cross-Domain Dependability Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems ( pdf ), The 12th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2018), Vancouver, Canada, April 23-26, 2018, pp. 23-30.
• Coelho M., Austin M.A. and Blackburn M.R., Semantic Behavior Modeling and Event-Driven Reasoning for Urban System of Systems ( pdf ), International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, Vol. 10, No 3 and 4, December 2017, pp. 365-382.
• Coelho M., Austin M.A., and Blackburn M., Distributed System Behavior Modeling of Urban Systems with Ontologies, Rules and Many-to-Many Association Relationships ( pdf ), The Twelth International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2017), Venice, Italy, April 23-27, 2017, pp. 10-15. Best Paper Award
• Coelho M., Distributed System Behavior Modeling of Urban Systems with Ontologies, Rules and Message Passing Mechanisms ( pdf ), MS Thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, May 2017.