I am a Ph.D. student at the Division of System and Control under the supervision of Professor Alexander Medvedev and adj. Professor Torbjörn Wigren.

My CV can be found here.

My Ph.D. work is together with Departamento de Matemática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, where I work under the supervision of adj. Professor Teresa Mendonça.

My research is focused on identification and control in anesthesia.

Key Publications

Ph.D. Thesis: Nonlinear Modeling and Feedback Control of Drug Delivery in Anesthesia

• Z. T. Zhusubaliyev, A. Medvedev, and M. M. Silva, "Bifurcation analysis of PID controlled neuromuscular blockade in closed-loop anesthesia", Journal of Process Control, vol. 25, pp. 152?163, Jan. 2015.

• M. M. Silva, L. Paz, T. Wigren, and T. Mendonça, "Performance of an adaptive controller for the neuromuscular blockade based on inversion of a Wiener model", Asian Journal of Control, early view, Sep. 2014.

• M. M. Silva, T. Wigren, and T. Mendonça, "A reduced MIMO Wiener model for recursive identification of the Depth of Anesthesia", Int. J. Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol. 28, issue 12, pp. 1357?1371, Dec. 2014.

• M. M. Silva, J. M. Lemos, A. Coito, B. A. Costa, T. Wigren and T. Mendonça, "Local identifiability and sensitivity analysis of neuromuscular blockade and depth of hypnosis models", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 113, issue 1, pp. 23-36, Jan. 2014.

• M. M. Silva, T. Wigren, and T. Mendonça, "Nonlinear identification of a minimal Neuromuscular Blockade model in anesthesia", IEEE Trans. Contr. Sys. Tech., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 181-188, Jan. 2012.

• M. M. Silva, T. Mendonça, and T. Wigren, "Online Nonlinear Identification of the Effect of Drugs in Anaesthesia Using a Minimal Parameterization and BIS Measurements", Proc. American Control Conference (ACC'10), Baltimore, MD, USA, pp. 4379 - 4384, 30 Jun.-2 Jul., 2010.

A complete list of publications can be found here.

Margarida M. Silva Google Scholar Link

Teaching

VT14: Period 3/4, lab sessions in System Identification given by Kristiaan Pelckmans.

VT12: Period 3/4, lab sessions in System Identification given by Kristiaan Pelckmans.

HT11: Period 2, exercise sessions in Introduction to Computer Controlled Systems given by Darine Zambrano.