Contact information
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedromiranda1987/
Email: pedroampuc@gmail.com
Pedro Augusto da Silva e Souza Miranda is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Future Cities Institute at the University of Waterloo. He completed his PhD in School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in 2026, where his research advanced dynamic consent and continuous data governance frameworks applicable from bedside telemetry to population health intelligence.
Pedro is an accomplished software engineer and health-informatics researcher with 10+ years of combined industry and academic experience. He is the co-founder and CTO of Skopien Canada (skopien.ca), a Kitchener–Waterloo startup launched in 2024 that centralizes data from any ICU bedside monitor—regardless of vendor—into a secure, replay-capable platform that streamlines hospital bed management, clinical analytics, and ethically governed data reuse. Based at Velocity, Skopien is establishing a Vital Signs Monitoring Lab to continuously integrate additional device types; with support from regional partners, the team is pilot-ready at WRHN’s Mid Town ICU to formalize its first customer and generate rigorous operational and clinical evidence.
Education
PhD: University of Waterloo - 2026
MSs: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - 2019
BSc: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - 2016
Research interests
- Blockchain
- Healthcare standards
- Software Engineering
- Software Agents
Projects
Blockchain for Consent Management
Publications
CARVALHO, A. V. ; LUCENA, C. J. P. ; CIRILO, E. R. ; ALVES, P. H. C. ; MIRANDA, P. A. S. E. S. ; CARVALHO, G. R. ; ARAUJO, F. R. L. ; LIMA, G. V.C. Software Engineering in Telehealth: an Extension of Sana Mobile Applied to the Process of a Routine Hospital. In: 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2013, 2013, Las Vegas. Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013, Part II, HCI 2013, LNCS 8005. Berlin:Springer-Verlag, 2013. p. 3-12.
COSTA, A. D. ; MIRANDA, P. A. S. E. S ; LUCENA, C. J. P. ; CARVALHO, G. R. ; Fiorini. S. T. Tutorial Prático para Testes de Desempenho usando o Rational Performance Tester. in: IBM developerWorks, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/br/local/rational/RPT_8.2_tutorial/index.html. 2011.
SOUZA, E., da Silva, P. A., MIRANDA, A. D. D. C., & DE LUCENA, C. J. P. (2017). iMobile: A Framework to Implement Software Agents for the iOS Platform. ICSEA 2017, 125.
Velmovitsky, P. E., Miranda, P. A. S. E. S., Fadrique, L. X., & Morita, P. P. (2021). Blockchain in healthcare. Toronto, ON: Canadian Standards Association.
Velmovitsky, P., Miranda, P., Vaillancourt, H., Donovska, T., Teague, J., & Morita, P. (2020). A blockchain-based consent platform for active assisted living: Modeling study and conceptual framework. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(12), e20832. https://doi.org/10.2196/20832.
Paganelli, A. I., Velmovitsky, P. E., Miranda, P., Branco, A., Alencar, P., Cowan, D., Endler, M., & Morita, P. P. (2021). A conceptual IoT-based early-warning architecture for remote monitoring of COVID-19 patients in wards and at home. Internet of Things, 100399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2021.100399.
Miranda, P. A. D. S. E. S., & Morita, P. P. (2022). A proposed personal data sovereignty inter-organizational governance framework for public health research. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 1-1). Osaka, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020348.
Miranda, P. A., Kaur, J., & Morita, P. (2023). UbiSecE: UbiLab's secure cloud environment for public health research in Microsoft Azure. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) (pp. 1-4). Montreal, QC, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1109/WiMob58348.2023.10187831.
Miranda, P., Kaur, J., Abhari, S., & Morita, P. P. (2023). ChatGPT for systematic and scoping reviews in public health research: An applicable approach. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2), ckad160.1237. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1237.
Miranda, P., Kaur, J., & Morita, P. P. (2023). Designing dynamic informed consent for public health research. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2), ckad160.1236. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1236.
Miranda, P., Kaur, J., & Morita, P. (2023). UbiSeCEF: Ubilab's secure cloud environment framework for public health research. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2), ckad160.1209. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1209.
Abhari, S., Morita, P., Miranda, P. A. D. S. E. S., Garavand, A., Hanjahanja-Phiri, T., & Chumachenko, D. (2023). Non-fungible tokens in healthcare: A scoping review. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1266385.
Morita, P. P., Kaur, J., & Miranda, P. A. D. S. E. S. (2024). Enhancing public health research: a viewpoint report on the transition to secure, cloud-based systems. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1270450.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1270450