Tiago Manuel Ribeiro Gomes

Tiago Manuel Ribeiro Gomes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Electronics within the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is also a Senior Researcher at Centro ALGORITMI and a member of both the IE R&D Group and the ESRG R&D Lab. Holding a Ph.D. in Electronics and Computers Engineering, his research focuses on embedded real-time systems, computer architectures, and hardware/software co-design for IoT devices.

• Academic Degree: Ph.D. in Electronics and Computers Engineering
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, University of Minho

Gomes has led extensive research in IoT systems over 15 years, particularly in hardware acceleration for automotive LiDAR sensors, secure embedded systems, and efficient OS frameworks for low-end devices. His work includes the EU-funded CROSSCON project and spans hardware-assisted security, dynamic binary translation, and wireless sensor networks.

Recent publications highlight his expertise in automotive sensor technology, with articles like FOG-Zip for LiDAR compression, SecureQNN for TinyML security, and Hardware-Assisted Range Image Generation for LiDAR processing. His work bridges IoT, embedded systems, and cybersecurity, focusing on real-time performance and hardware-software co-design.

Projects include the development of reliable/secure automotive sensor solutions and EU project CROSSCON. He contributes to open-source frameworks like UTango for IoT security and investigates heterogeneous fault tolerance architectures using Arm/RISC-V processors.

• Labs: IE R&D Group, ESRG R&D Lab
• Education: Ph.D. in Electronics and Computers Engineering, Master’s in Telecommunications Engineering (both from University of Minho)