Pedro J. Vaz — academic researcher, FOH / studio mix & mastering engineer, and electronics builder repairing and designing tube and solid‑state gear.
I'm an Invited Assistant at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Universidade do Algarve, teaching programming and object-oriented programming, and currently pursuing a PhD in informatics, in the fields of machine learning, affective computing, and computer vision. Alongside the research comes live sound and studio engineering — FOH, mixing, and mastering — and the design and repair of tube and solid-state audio electronics. For me the three fields are the same problem in different clothes: reading the signal, understanding what it carries, and shaping it with intention.
Machine learning and affective computing — PhD research at NOVA LINCS, University of Algarve, published in IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Live sound engineering, studio mixing, and mastering. Selected sessions, credits, and setup.
Custom electronics design, plus tube and solid‑state amplifier repair and restoration.