NOVA LINCS Group: Intelligent Systems Research Topics: Computer Vision Neural Architecture Search Neural Network Optimization Machine Learning AutoML Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bvYBcRkAAAAJ Completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering in 2023/12/21 by Universidade da Beira Interior, Master in Computer Science and Engineering in 2019/07/19 by Universidade da Beira Interior and Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering in 2017/06/15 by Universidade da Beira Interior. Is Researcher in Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, General Manager & Co-Founder in DeepNeuronic and Chief Technology Officer in CRIAM. Published 10 articles in journals and 14 conference papers, with more than 500 citations and h-index of 11 (Google Scholar). Has 1 section(s) of books. Organized 5 event(s). Has received 13 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 2 project(s), Principal investigator in 1 project(s) and team member in 3 project(s). Selected Publications: Vasco Lopes; Luís A. Alexandre. "Toward Less Constrained Macro-Neural Architecture Search". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2023) Lopes, Vasco; Carlucci, Fabio Maria; Esperança, Pedro M.; Singh, Marco; Yang, Antoine; Gabillon, Victor; Xu, Hang; Chen, Zewei; Wang, Jun. "Manas: multi-agent neural architecture search". Machine Learning 113 1 (2023): 73-96 Lopes, Vasco; Degardin, Bruno; Alexandre, Luís A. Alexandre. "Are Neural Architecture Search Benchmarks Well Designed? A Deeper Look Into Operation Importance. Information Sciences 650 (2023): 119695 Degardin, Bruno; Lopes, Vasco; Proenca, Hugo. "REGINA: Reasoning Graph Convolutional Networks in Human Action Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 16 (2021): 5442-5451 Neves, João C.; Tolosana, Ruben; Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Vasco Lopes; Proenca, Hugo P; Fierrez, Julian. "GANprintR: Improved Fakes and Evaluation of the State of the Art in Face Manipulation Detection". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2020): 1-11.
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Personal identification

Full name
Vasco Ferrinho Lopes

Citation names

  • Vasco Lopes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2516-C038-0DC1
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5577-1094
Google Scholar ID
bvYBcRkAAAAJ

Email addresses

  • vasco.lopes@ubi.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Degree Classification
2019/09/01 - 2023/12/21
Concluded
 Computer Science and Engineering (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Artificial Intelligence; Computer Vision
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Improving Neural Architecture Search With Bayesian Optimization and Generalization Mechanisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09/01 - 2019/07/19
Concluded
 Computer Science and Engineering (Master)
Major in Inteligência Artificial
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"RobotChain: Artificial Intelligence on a Blockchain using Tezos Technology" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/01/01
Concluded
 Machine Learning (Outros)
Major in Machine Learning
Stanford University Department of Computer Science, United States

Coursera, United States
2014/09/17 - 2017/06/15
Concluded
 Computer Science and Engineering (Bachelor)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Algorithms for Robot Grasping" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/06/05
Concluded
 Algorithmic Toolbox (Outros)
University of California San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United States

Coursera, United States

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2023/12 Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior, SOCIA-LAB - Soft Computing and Image Analysis Laboratory, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/10/01 Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior, SOCIA-LAB - Soft Computing and Image Analysis Laboratory, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2018/09/30 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
(...)

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - 2024/02/28 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
(...)

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Youth Representative in Municipal Youth Council Câmara Municipal da Covilhã, Portugal
2014/09/30 - 2020/01/01 Computer Science and Engineering Student Representative Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2019/09/30 Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Portugal, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
(...)

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/01 - Current Chief Technology Officer CRIAM, Portugal
2020/01 - Current General Manager & Co-Founder DeepNeuronic, Portugal
2022/09 - 2022/12 Research Scientist Google, Switzerland
2022/03 - 2022/09 Machine Learning Researcher Huawei Noah's Ark, United Kingdom
Huawei Noah's Ark, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/01 Machine Learning Researcher Huawei R&D Center, France

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/11/01 - 2023/10/31 Improving Neural Architecture Search With Bayesian Optimization and Generalization Mechanisms
2020.04588.BD
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/08/01 - 2023/07/31 DeepNeuronic
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-113023
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

DeepNeuronic, Portugal
União Europeia - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional
Concluded
2022/07/01 - 2023/01/31 A1 Benchmarking CNNs for Neural Architecture Search Development
CPCA/A1/468306/2021
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2021/07/01 - 2022/01/31 A0 Benchmarking CNNs for Neural Architecture Search Development
CPCA/A0/396969/2021
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/11/01 - 2020/10/31 INDTECH 4.0 - Novas Tecnologias Para Fabricação Inteligente
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-026653
Research Fellow
Compete 2020

Portugal 2020

União Europeia - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional
Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2019/11/01 RobotChain
RobotChain
Research Fellow
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 Tezos
Concluded
2017/10/01 - 2018/07/31 uPATO - Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool
UID/EEA/50008/2013
Research Fellow
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Concluded

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Neves, João C.; Tolosana, Ruben; Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Lopes, Vasco; Proença, Hugo; Fierrez, Julian. "GAN Fingerprints in Face Image Synthesis". In Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 175-204. Springer Singapore, 2022.
    10.1007/978-981-16-7621-5_8
Conference paper
  1. Lopes, Vasco; Santos, Miguel; Degardin, Bruno; Alexandre, Luís A.. "Efficient guided evolution for neural architecture search". Paper presented in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'22), Boston, 2022.
    Published • 10.1145/3520304.3528936
  2. Degardin, Bruno; Neves, Joao; Lopes, Vasco; Brito, Joao; Yaghoubi, Ehsan; Proenca, Hugo. "Generative Adversarial Graph Convolutional Networks for Human Action Synthesis". Paper presented in Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'22), 2022.
    Published • 10.1109/wacv51458.2022.00281
  3. Vasco Lopes; Luís A. Alexandre; Nuno Pereira. "Controlling Robots using Artificial Intelligence and a Consortium Blockchain". Paper presented in 17th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV'22), Singapore, 2022.
    Published
  4. Vasco Lopes; Miguel Fernandes; Nuno Pereira; Luís A. Alexandre. "A Time-Segmented Consortium Blockchain for Robotic Event Registration". Paper presented in International Conference on Blockchain Technology (ICBCT'21), Shanghai, 2021.
    Published
  5. Vasco Lopes; Paulo Fazendeiro. "A Hybrid Method for Training Convolutional Neural Networks". Paper presented in Computing Conference, 2021.
    Published
  6. Vasco Lopes; Gaspar, Antonio; Alexandre, Luis A.; Cordeiro, Joao. Corresponding author: Vasco Lopes. "An AutoML-based Approach to Multimodal Image Sentiment Analysis". Paper presented in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'21), Shenzhen, 2021.
    Published • 10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533552
  7. Lopes, Vasco; Miguel Santos; Bruno Degardin; Luís A. Alexandre. "Guided Evolution for Neural Architecture Search". Paper presented in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS) - New In ML workshop, 2021.
    Published
  8. Lopes, Vasco; Saeid Alirezazadeh; Luís A. Alexandre. "EPE-NAS: Efficient Performance Estimation Without Training for Neural Architecture Search". Paper presented in 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'21), Bratislava, 2021.
    Published
  9. Lopes, Vasco; Luís A. Alexandre. Corresponding author: Lopes, Vasco. "Auto-classifier: A robust defect detector based on an automl head". Paper presented in International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'20), 2020.
    Published
  10. Lopes, Vasco; Nuno Pereira; Luís A. Alexandre. "Robot Workspace Monitoring using a Blockchain-based 3D Vision Approach". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPR'19), Long Beach, 2019.
    Published
  11. Vasco Lopes; Luís A. Alexandre. "Detecting Robotic Anomalies using RobotChain". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Guimarães, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/icarsc.2019.8733618
  12. Frutuoso Gomes Mendes da Silva; Vasco Lopes; José Ribeiro; Fernando Manuel Lourenço Martins. "uPATO Mobile-Network Module". Paper presented in Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Braga, 2019.
    Published
  13. Vasco Lopes; Luís A. Alexandre; Miguel Fernandes. "“Less is more”: Simplifying point clouds to improve grasping performance". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC'18), Torres Vedras, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/ICARSC.2018.8374192
  14. Lopes, Vasco; Luís A. Alexandre. "Improving Grasping Performance by Segmentation of Large Planar Surfaces". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RECPAD, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Bruno Degardin; Lopes, Vasco; Hugo Proeça. "Fake It Till You Recognize It: Quality Assessment for Human Action Generative Models". IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (2024):
    In press
  2. Lopes, Vasco; Degardin, Bruno; Alexandre, Luís A.. "Are Neural Architecture Search Benchmarks Well Designed? A Deeper Look Into Operation Importance". Information Sciences 650 (2023): 119695. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002002552301280X.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ins.2023.119695
  3. Lopes, Vasco; Carlucci, Fabio Maria; Esperança, Pedro M.; Singh, Marco; Yang, Antoine; Gabillon, Victor; Xu, Hang; Chen, Zewei; Wang, Jun. "Manas: multi-agent neural architecture search". Machine Learning 113 1 (2023): 73-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10994-023-06379-w.
    10.1007/s10994-023-06379-w
  4. Degardin, Bruno; Lopes, Vasco; Proença, Hugo. "ATOM: Self-supervised human action recognition using atomic motion representation learning". Image and Vision Computing 137 (2023): 104750. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2023.104750.
    10.1016/j.imavis.2023.104750
  5. Vasco Lopes; Luís A. Alexandre. "Toward Less Constrained Macro-Neural Architecture Search". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2023): https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3326648.
    10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3326648
  6. Fernando Martins; Ricardo Gomes; Vasco Lopes; Frutuoso Silva; Rui Mendes. "Mathematical Models to Measure the Variability of Nodes and Networks in Team Sports". Entropy 23 8 (2021): 1072-1072. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23081072.
    10.3390/e23081072
  7. Ramôa, João Gaspar; Lopes, Vasco; Alexandre, Luís A.; Mogo, S.. "Real-time 2D-3D door detection and state classification on a low-power device". SN Applied Sciences 3 5 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04588-3.
    10.1007/s42452-021-04588-3
  8. Degardin, Bruno; Lopes, Vasco; Proenca, Hugo. "REGINA: Reasoning Graph Convolutional Networks in Human Action Recognition". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 16 (2021): 5442-5451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tifs.2021.3130437.
    10.1109/tifs.2021.3130437
  9. Fernando Martins; Ricardo Gomes; Vasco Lopes; Frutuoso Silva; Rui Mendes. "Node and Network Entropy: A Novel Mathematical Model for Pattern Analysis of Team Sports Behavior". Mathematics 8 9 (2020): 1543-1543. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8091543.
    10.3390/math8091543
  10. Neves, João C.; Tolosana, Ruben; Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Vasco Lopes; Proenca, Hugo P; Fierrez, Julian. "GANprintR: Improved Fakes and Evaluation of the State of the Art in Face Manipulation Detection". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2020): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jstsp.2020.3007250.
    Open access • 10.1109/jstsp.2020.3007250
  11. Lopes, Vasco; Alexandre, Luís A. "An Overview of Blockchain Integration with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence". Ledger 4 1 (2019): 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.171.
    Open access • Published • 10.5195/ledger.2019.171
Preprint
  1. Lopes, Vasco; Miguel Santos; Bruno Degardin; Luís A. Alexandre. "Guided Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search With Efficient Performance Estimation". 2022.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Improving Neural Architecture Search With Bayesian Optimization and Generalization Mechanisms". PhD, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2023. https://ubibliorum.ubi.pt/handle/10400.6/14087.
  2. Vasco Lopes. "RobotChain: Artificial Intelligence on a Blockchain using Tezos Technology". Master, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2019. https://ubibliorum.ubi.pt/handle/10400.6/10053.

Other

Other output
  1. An Overview of Blockchain Integration with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 2018. Vasco Lopes; Luís A. Alexandre. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00329.

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/06/17 Robot Workspace Monitoring using a Blockchain-based 3D Vision Approach Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - Workshop: Blockchain Meets Computer Vision & AI
The Computer Vision Foundation - CVPR (Long Beach, United States)
2019/04/25 Detecting Robotic Anomalies using RobotChain 19th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC'19)
University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering, INESC-TEC, LIACC, CISTER, P.Porto and Portuguese Society for Robotics. (Guimarães, Portugal)
2019/03/22 RobotChain: A Consortium Blockchain for Robots European Robotics Forum 2019 - Workshop on 'Blockchain in Robotic Applications'
European Robotics Forum (Bucareste, Romania)
2019/03/21 Blockchain and Robotics: What, Why, How (RobotChain) European Robotics Forum 2019 - Workshop on Cloud Robotics
European Robotics Forum (Bucareste, Romania)
2018/12/05 An Overview of Blockchain Integration with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems, MIT Media Lab (BROS'18)
MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
2018/10/20 Desmistificação de Buzzwords Tecnológicas Desmistificação de Buzzwords Tecnológicas
Núcleo Jovem @ Covilhã (Covilhã, Portugal)
2017/10/27 Improving Grasping Performance by Segmentation of Large Planar Surfaces 23rd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RECPAD 2017
Portuguese Military Academy (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/04/05 Microsoft Cognitive Services, Bots & Xamarin I Jornadas de InfoWeb UBI
Infoweb - Núcleo de alunos de Informática Web UBI (Covilhã, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 RECPAD 2024. (2024 - 2024)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022 - 2022 ICML - New In ML workshop 2022. (2022 - 2022)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2018/06/18 - 2018/06/20 Event to dissiminate the UPATO platform. Practical tests with data collection using GPS FieldWiz devices and the uPATO mobile application. Practical sessions with the uPATO software, both with the Network module, as well as with the GPS module. (2018/06/18 - 2018/06/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra da Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2018/03/01 Workshop for the presentation of the Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool project, co-organized with the ROBOCORP laboratory and UNICID-ASSERT of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. (2018/03/01 - 2018/03/01)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra da Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

ROBOCORP, Portugal

UNICID-ASSERT, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Microsoft IoT Labs @ UBI (2018 - 2018)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Microsoft Portugal, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
2019 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões (APRP) Membro
2018 - Current IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Membro
2018 - Current DSPA - Data Science Portuguese Association Associado

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/06 - 2020/06 ACM Multimedia 2020 ACM
2020/05 - 2020/05 iLRN 2020: 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network IEEE
2019/11 - 2019/11 BRAIS2019: Symposium on Blockchain for Robotics and AI Systems Cambridge, MA. USA

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/09 - 2020/03 Programming I Aeronautical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/03 Programming I Electromechanical Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/03 Programming I Electrical and Computer Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Award

2022 Huawei and .PT Academic Merit Award
Huawei Technologies Research & Development Ltd, United Kingdom
2021 1st Springer & ENNS Best Paper Award @ ICANN21
European Neural Network Society, Switzerland
2020 APRP Best Dissertation Award - Pattern Recognition
Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Portugal
2020 Best Student in Computer Science and Engineering - Masters Completion
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020 1st Place - Hackathon Biomedical World
2020 Portuguese Ministry of Education 's Merit Award
Ministério da Educação, Portugal
2019 2nd Best Student in 1st year of Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2018 Best Student in Computer Science and Engineering - Bachelors Completion
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Câmara Municipal do Fundão, Portugal
2018 1st Place - HealthCup @ UBIMedical
UBIMedical, Portugal
2018 Bronze Medalist - Maratona Inter-Universitária de Programação (MIUP'18)
MIUP, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017 Best Student in 3rd year of Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2016 2nd Best Student in 2nd year of Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016 1st Place Software Engineering @ Outsystems & Universidade da Beira Interior
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Outsystems, Portugal