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João Pedro Estácio Gaspar Gonçalves de Araújo. Completed the 1st Cycle of the Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica with First Class Honours (GPA: 18/20 or A/A, best student in the Mechanical Engineering edition 2015-2018) in 2018/07/12 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. After, he completed the 2nd Cycle in Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (current GPA: 18.5/50) by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico in 2020/07/23. His Master's Thesis was in Reinforcement Learning, under the supervision of Professor Miguel Ayala Botto (Mechanical Engineering Department, IST) and Professor Mário Figueiredo (Electrical Engineering Department, IST). Currently attends the Computer Science PhD at Stanford University. He is both a Fulbright and an EDGE fellow. Has three ISI publications (one ScimagoJR Q1) and Erdos number 2. Several other articles either accepted, submitted, or in preparation. Acknowledged in a conference paper in reinforcement learning. First prize recipient of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists - EUCYS 2014 contest (first Portuguese student to receive this prize), receiving the award from the hands of a Nobel Prize Laureate. First high school student invited to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/). Google Summer of Code participant in 2016, working for the Blender Foundation. Distinguished as one of Blender's Top 30 Developers (https://www.blender.org/development/the-top-30-blender-developers-2016/). CENTEC fellow, working under supervision of professor Carlos Guedes Soares (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal) on a project involving system identification and control using Neural Networks. Calouste Gulbenkian's Foundation fellow on Artificial Intelligence (under the supervision of Professor Manuel Lopes). Invited to present twice: to the general public of IST, and, at the invitation of Professor José Santos-Victor, ISR-Lisboa president, to the researchers and professors at ISR-Lisboa. Twice Calouste Gulbenkian's fellow in Mathematics (working under the supervision of Professors Paulo Mateus and Pedro Lopes). Professor Jaime Campos Ferreira Prize Awardee in 2018, a prize awarded to IST students who have shown excellent performance in Mathematics. Invited speaker in six conferences, twelve invited talks given in conferences and/or seminars, and two organised over the last five years. His first talk was in the Mathematics Department of Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon when he was 15 years old. Teaching Assistant of Control Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico. Awarded a merit scholarship for being the student with the highest GPA of the entire degree in 2015/2016. Recipient of the excellence board distinction (top 2% students of IST) from the hands of the President of IST, Professor Arlindo Oliveira, every year of the Bachelor's Degree.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Pedro Estácio Gaspar Gonçalves de Araújo

Citation names

  • Araújo, João Pedro
  • J. P. Araújo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F81E-C9EC-D008
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3298-0336

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09 - 2026/06
Ongoing
PhD Program in Computer Science (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Computer Science
Stanford University Department of Computer Science, United States
2018/09 - 2020/07/23
Concluded
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (2o Ciclo) (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Single-partition adaptive Q-learning: algorithm and applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
19
2015/09 - 2018/07/12
Concluded
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (1o Ciclo) (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
18
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/08/01 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Stanford University Department of Computer Science, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/02/17 - 2020/07/16 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/03/01 - 2020/02/14 CENTEC Fellow Centro de Engenharia e Tecnologia Naval e Oceanica, Portugal
2017/11 - 2018/09 "New Talents in Artificial Intelligence" 2017 Fellow Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/07 - 2017/09 Intern Université Paris-Saclay, France
Université Paris-Saclay, France
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2016/11 - 2017/09 "New Talents in Mathematics" 2016 Fellow Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/11 - 2016/09 "New Talents in Mathematics" 2015 Fellow Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Araújo, João Pedro; Moreira, Lúcia. "Modelling Ship Manoeuvrability Using Recurrent Neural Networks". Paper presented in 5th International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering (Martech2020), Lisbon, 2020.
    Accepted
Journal article
  1. João Pedro Araújo; Mário A.T. Figueiredo; Miguel Ayala Botto. "Control with adaptive Q-learning: A comparison for two classical control problems". Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 112 (2022): 104797-104797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2022.104797.
    10.1016/j.engappai.2022.104797
  2. João Araújo; João Pedro Araújo; Wolfram Bentz; Peter J. Cameron; Pablo Spiga. "A transversal property for permutation groups motivated by partial transformations". Journal of Algebra (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2020.12.024.
    10.1016/j.jalgebra.2020.12.024
  3. Araújo, João; Araújo, João Pedro; Cameron, Peter J.; Lee, Edmond W. H.; Raminhos, Jorge. "A Survey on Varieties Generated by Small Semigroups and a Companion Website". (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05817.
    Submitted
  4. Araújo, João; Araújo, João Pedro; Bentz, Wolfram; Cameron, Peter J.; Spiga, Pablo. "A Transversal Property for Permutation Groups Motivated by Partial Transformations". (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02058.
    Submitted
  5. Araújo, João Pedro. "Semilattices of Rectangular Bands and Groups in a given Variety". Quasigroups and Related Systems (2019):
    Accepted
  6. J. Araújo; J.P. Araújo; P.J. Cameron; T. Dobson; A. Hulpke; P. Lopes. "Imprimitive permutations in primitive groups". Journal of Algebra 486 (2017): 396-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2017.03.043.
    10.1016/j.jalgebra.2017.03.043
  7. Araújo, João Pedro; Kinyon, Michael. "A natural characterization of semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent two". Semigroup Forum 91 1 (2014): 295-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00233-014-9644-6.
    10.1007/s00233-014-9644-6
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/02/20 Artificial Intelligence for High School Students Sailing Through Knowledge
Colégio Mira Rio (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11 Learning Modular Neural Network Policies for Multi-Task and Multi-Robot Transfer Workshop Final Novos Talentos em Inteligência Artificial
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/06 Transfer Learning Conversas com Potencial
Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/06 Curriculum Learning
Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR | Lisboa) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/03 Learning Modular Neural Network Policies for Multi-Task and Multi-Robot Transfer Workshop Intermédio Novos Talentos em Inteligência Artificial
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/11 Aprender modelos multi-robot multi-tarefa com transfere^ncia de conhecimento Primeiro Workshop Novos Talentos em Inteligência Artificial
Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/03 Cryptanalysis of a quantum cryptographic system Oficina Diagonal
Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/02 Primitive Groups Oficina Diagonal
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2015/10 Seminar about the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Joint session with Professor Peter J. Cameron
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências
2014/12 A natural characterization of semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent two
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2014/03/14 A natural characterization of semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent two
Centro de Álgebra da Universidade de Lisboa (CAUL)
2014/02 A natural characterization of semilattices of rectangular bands and groups of exponent two
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/17 - 2020/07/13 Cadeira "Controlo de Sistemas", do Primeiro Ciclo de estudos do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica do Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa), oferecida no Segundo Semestre do Ano Lectivo 2019/2020. Controlo de Sistemas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 Fulbright Fellowship
Institute of International Education Inc, United States
2020 EDGE Fellowship
Stanford University, United States
2018 Prémio Professor Jaime Campos Ferreira
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
2015 Segundo Lugar Mostra Nacional de Ciência
2014 First Prize European Union Constest for Young Scientists
2014 Terceiro Lugar Mostra Nacional de Ciência

Other distinction

2020 Diploma de Excelência Académica 2018/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 Diploma de Excelência Académica 2017/2018
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 Diploma de Excelência Académica 2016/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 Diploma de Excelência Académica 2015/2016
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 Top 30 Blender Developer
2015 First High School student invited to partitipate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum