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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Miguel Andrade Proença da Cunha

Citation names

  • Cunha, João Miguel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2418-1239-5B57
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6502-3500
Google Scholar ID
KgxxOcQAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
57188721956

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022
Concluded
 Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Generation of Concept-Representative Symbols: Towards Visual Conceptual Blending" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013
Concluded
 Design e Multimédia (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Dissertação sobre relações anatómicas entre caracteres de um tipo de letra" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2011
Concluded
 Design e Multimédia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013/09/24 - 2022 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/10/01 - 2013/11/13 Collaborator FBA. – Ferrand, Bicker & Associados, Portugal
2012/06/01 - 2013/06/01 Graphic Designer and Collaborator Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia Informática Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2010/11/30 Collaborator R2 Design, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021 - 2021 Gadget Project
LCT 718912
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra
Concluded
2017/02/01 - 2021 Generation of Concept-Representative Symbols
SFRH/BD/120905/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - Current EA-Digifolk: An European and Ibero-American approach for the digital collection, analysis and dissemination of folk music
101086338
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
2023 - Current NextGenAI - Centre For Responsible AI
2022-C05i0102-02
Researcher
Ongoing
2022 - Current POWER - Empowering a digital future
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-070365
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
Ongoing
2015 - 2016 Desenvolvimento do site do ANOZERO 2015 -- Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra
LIS/IPN Project 560
Researcher
Circulo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra
Concluded
2014 - 2016 ConCreTe – Concept Creation Technology
FET grant number 611733
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2014 - 2016 Promoting the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/600653/EU
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Cunha, João Miguel; Martins, Tiago; Pedro Matos Chaves; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Dynamic Visual Identities: Exploring Variation Mechanisms to Achieve Flexibility". 2020.
    978-3-030-49647-0_6
  2. João M. Cunha; Nuno Lourenço; João Correia; Pedro Martins; Penousal Machado. "Emojinating: Evolving Emoji Blends". 110-126. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-16667-0_8
Conference paper
  1. Martins, Tiago; Cunha, João Miguel; Correia, João; Machado, Penousal. "Towards the evolution of prompts with metaprompter". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2023, 2023.
  2. Parente, Jéssica; Gonçalo, Luís; Martins, Tiago; Cunha, João Miguel; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Using autoencoders to generate skeletonbased typography". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2023, 2023.
  3. José Lopes; Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins. "Stonkinator: An Automatic Generator of Memetic Images". Paper presented in 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Waterloo, Ontario, 2023.
    Published
  4. Jorge Santos; Rafael Murta; Cunha, João Miguel; Rebelo, Sérgio Martins; Pedro Martins. "Evolving Urban Landscapes". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
    Published
  5. Luis Gonçalo; Cunha, João Miguel; Machado, Penousal. "Towards a Visual Language Using Neural Networks". Paper presented in Twelfth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2021, 2021.
  6. Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Machado, Penousal. "Ever-changing Flags: Trend- driven Symbols of Identity". Paper presented in 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2020), 2020.
  7. Carolina Gonçalves Lopes; Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins. "Towards Generative Illustration of Text". Paper presented in Joint Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity Workshops (WS 2020), 2020.
  8. Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins; Machado, Penousal. "Knowledge in Computational Design: Typography, Emoji and Flags". Paper presented in Joint Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity Workshops (WS 2020), 2020.
  9. Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins; Machado, Penousal. "Ever-changing Flags: Impact and Ethics of Modifying National Symbols". Paper presented in Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2020, 2020.
  10. Philipp Wicke; Cunha, João Miguel. "An Approach for Text-to-Emoji Translation". Paper presented in Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2020, 2020.
  11. Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins; Lourenço, Nuno; Machado, Penousal. "Emojinating Co-Creativity: Integrating Self-Evaluation and Context-Adaptation". Paper presented in Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2020, 2020.
  12. Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins; Machado, Penousal. "Let’s Figure This Out: A Roadmap for Visual Conceptual Blending". Paper presented in Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2020, 2020.
  13. Cunha, João Miguel; Sarah Harmon; Christian Guckelsberger; Anna Kantosalo; Paul Bodily; Kazjon Grace. "Understanding and Strengthening the Computational Creativity Community: A Report From The Computational Creativity Task Force". Paper presented in Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2020, 2020.
  14. Cunha, J.M.; Martins, P.; MacHado, P.. "Emojinating: Hooked Beings". 2019.
    10.1145/3359852.3359964
  15. Cunha, João Miguel; Rebelo, Sérgio Martins; Pedro Martins; Machado, Penousal. "Assessing Usefulness of a Visual Blending System: ‘Pictionary Has Used Image-making New Meaning Logic for Decades. We Don’t Need a Computational Platform to Explore the Blending Phenomena’, Do We?". Paper presented in 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2019.
  16. Pedro Matos Chaves; Cunha, João Miguel; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João. "Flexibility in Dynamic Visual Identities: Exploring Variation Mechanisms to Achieve Flexibility". Paper presented in DIGICOM 3rd International Conference on Design & Digital Communication, 2019.
  17. Cunha, João. "Using Image Schemas in the Visual Representation of Concepts". 2018.
  18. Cunha, João. "The Many-Faced Plot:Strategy for Automatic Glyph Generation". 2018.
    10.1109/iV.2018.00023
  19. Cunha, João Miguel; Pedro Martins; Machado, Penousal. "Emojinating: Representing Concepts Using Emoji". Paper presented in Workshop Proceedings from The 26th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2018), Stockholm, 2018.
  20. Cunha, João Miguel. "How Shell and Horn make a Unicorn: Experimenting with Visual Blending in Emoji". 2018.
  21. Cunha, João Miguel. "Computationally Generating Images for Music Albums". 2018.
  22. Cunha, João. "A Pig, an Angel and a Cactus Walk Into a Blender: A Descriptive Approach to Visual Blending". 2017.
  23. Cunha, João. "TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool". 2016.
  24. Cunha, João. "Generation of concept-representative symbols". 2015.
Conference poster
  1. "AI for People: Making the World a Better Place Through AI". Paper presented in IK 2020, Interdisciplinary College (Virtual), 2020.
  2. "Emojinating Co-Creativity: Integrating Self-Evaluation and Context-Adaptation". Paper presented in 11th International Conference Computational Creativity, 2020.
  3. "Emojinating: Evolution Towards Visual Representation of Concepts". Paper presented in IK 2019, Interdisciplinary College, Out of Your Senses: From Data to Insight, 2019.
  4. "Emojinating: Evolving Emoji Blends (Evostar 2019 BEST POSTER AWARD)". Paper presented in 8th International Conferenc on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2019, 2019.
  5. "Producing Emoji Through Visual Blending". Paper presented in Encontros com a Ciência, 2018.
  6. "Descriptive Approach to Visual Blending". Paper presented in Encontros com a Ciência, 2017.
Edited book
  1. Cunha, João Miguel. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2023. 2023.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. João M. Cunha; Nuno Lourenço; Pedro Martins; Penousal Machado. "Visual Blending for Concept Representation: A Case Study on Emoji Generation". New Generation Computing (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-020-00107-x.
    10.1007/s00354-020-00107-x
  2. Martins, Tiago; Cunha, João Miguel; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Dynamic visual identities: from a survey of the state-of-the-art to a model of features and mechanisms". Visible Language 53 2 (2019): 4-35.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Generation of Concept Representative Symbols: Towards Visual Conceptual Blending". PhD, 2022.
  2. Cunha, João Miguel. "Dissertation on anatomical relationships among characters of a typeface". 2013.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. "Emojinating: Hooked Beings" in the exhibition of the event "Romaria Cultural 2021", at Galerias João Abel Manta, in Gouveia, Portugal.. 2021.
  2. "Emojinating: Hooked Beings" at 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts (Artech 2019) Braga, Portugal. 2019.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/05/16 “Até à criatividade: Uma Viagem a Caminho de Sistemas Criativos Artificiais” Encontro Ciência 2022
(Lisboa)
2022/05 “Batidos Computacionais”: Representação de Conceitos Através de Mistura Visual Pint of Science Coimbra, Ctrl+ARTE
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2020/12/11 “ Emojinating: Towards Co-Creativity” Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology University of Coimbra
(Portugal)
2020/11/27 “Towards Generation of Symbols” Generative Design Course, Master Degree in Design and Multimedia University of Coimbra
(Portugal)
2020/09/07 “Flags of Change: Representing the Mood of a Country” Art and Artificial Intelligence: a disruptive joint venture (Art)^2Int Workshop ECAI 2020
2020/05 Speaker at Processing Community Hangout Processing Community Hangout
2019 From Conceptual Blending to Visual Blending And Back Dagstuhl Seminar 19172 Computational Creativity Meets Digital Literary Studies
(Germany)
2018 Speaker at Doctoral Consortium Doctoral Consortium, 9th International Conference Computational Creativity
(Spain)
2017 Speaker at Doctoral Consortium 8th International Conference Computational Creativity
(Atlanta, United States)
2013 Speaker at Meetup Freelancers Meetup Freelancers, Sala Arte à Parte
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2011 Speaker “Reinvenção da Revista e da cidade”, Revista Via Latina
(Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Computers, Memes and Humour: A Computational Approach to Memetics Study
Co-supervisor
 Doutoramento em Design de Media Computacionais (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 - Current The Grammar of Data Glyphs: A Context-aware Approach to Glyph Design for Visualization
Co-supervisor
2023 - Current Análise e Reconstrução do Website da RedLight Software
Supervisor
2023 - Current UX/UI Design na Whitesmith
Supervisor
2023 - Current Identidade Visual para o VRLab
Co-supervisor
2022 - Current Desenvolvimento de ferramentas e conteúdos de promoção da literacia ambiental e de práticas sustentáveis
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - Current Ferramentas computacionais para o design de identidades visuais dinâmicas
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - Current Gerar ilustrações a nível do estilo a partir de um input textual
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021 - Current Website, Identidade Visual e Sinalética para a Roda Pedaleira – Associação de Ciclista do Centro
Supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - Current O Design e a Tecnologia na Indústria do Fitness
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Geração Automática de Imagens Meméticas
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022 A Identidade Visual do Ciberespaço
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Estudo exploratório das propriedades de identidades visuais dinâmicas
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Imagem gráfica de um álbum de música a partir de elementos generativos
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Ilustração Generativa de Texto
Supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Re-design do website do Teatrão
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 primerCOG – Design de atividades de treino cognitivo
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Aplicação-autor para gestão do dia-a-dia de indivíduos com autismo
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Handheld probes
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Spots para atletas de desportos de ação
Supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 - 2014 HelpDiabetes: Interfaces Homem-Máquina e Máquina-Máquina em aplicações de apoio a pessoas com diabetes
Co-supervisor
 Design e Multimédia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Co-chair of the thematic track "AI and Creativity", 23rd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2024) (2024)
2022 - Current Program Chair, 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'23), (2023/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2022 - Current Member of the Conference Management Team, Interdisciplinary College 2023: Dynamics of Experience — Minds, Bodies, and Things (IK 2023) (2023/03)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021 - Current Organiser, Ciclo de Conversas Design + Multimédia, Portugal (2021, 2022, 2023) (2021)
2020 - Current Organiser, Processing Community Day Coimbra (2020, 2021, 2022,2023) (2020)
2016 - Current Local Organisation Team Member Evostar 2016, Porto, Portugal (2016)
2022 - 2023 Co-chair of the thematic track “AI, Generation and Creativity", 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2023) (2023/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2022 - 2023 Program Chair: International Conference on AI for People: Democratizing AI (CAIP'23) (2023/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2022 - 2022 Local Staff Member: 10th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2022) (2022 - 2022)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021 - 2021 General Chair: International Conference on AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI (CAIP'21) (2021/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2021 - 2021 Organization Member: Interdisciplinary College 2021: Connected in Cyberspace (Virtual IK 2021) (2021 - 2021)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019 - 2019 Local Organisation Team Member Interdisciplinary Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI 2019), Portugal (2019)
2015 - 2015 Local Organisation Team Member Code Camp on Computational Creativity, PROSECCO, Coimbra, Portugal (2015)
2015 - 2015 Local Organisation Team Member EPIA 2015, 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Coimbra, Portugal (2015)
2011 - 2012 Local Organisation Team Member and Participant of National Meeting of Design Students (2011) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010/10 - 2010/10 Member of the local organisation of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) Open 2010, Porto, Portugal (2010)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 Modelos Generativos para Automatização de Design Tipográfico – Generative Modeling for Automated Type Design
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisco José Brilhante Fernandes (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 Exposição Inside Out—do espaço físico ao digital
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Iris Margarida Pinto Pereira (Master)
2023 Towards Automated Generative Design
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ricardo Rocha Sacadura (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 Design de um jogo educativo para o projeto Science4Pandemics
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sílvia Carolina Tavares de Almeida (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 Desenho generativo de tipos fonéticos
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Valdemar José Almeida Machado (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 Identidade visual e website para associação SOS Racismo
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria Beatriz Chuva Julião (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 Projeto multimédia sobre a Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa de 1934 no Porto
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisco Oliveira Surrador (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021 Visualização (de informação) dos Caminhos do Cinema Português
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Hanna Filatava (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 Aplicação para dispositivos móveis de mapeamento de espaços de medo das mulheres no espaço urbano
Thesis Member
 Helena Raquel Félix Almeida (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 Smart Parking Design Overhaul
Thesis Member
 Fábio Rodrigues Moderno (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 Arte em Jogo
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joaquim Fábio Ferreira Alves dos Reis (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 Social Kids: Um estudo de caso de design de interação para crianças
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Carolina Diniz Quaresma (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 Visualising Gameplay Information for Game Design Insights
(Thesis) Main arguer
 André Filipe Gomes Cabral (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 Cartografia dinâmica para comportamentos de consumo
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Miguel da Rocha Lameira (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 Criação da identidade visual e dos interfaces com o utilizador para um sistema multiplataforma nas áreas da produtividade e mobilidade
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Bruno Filipe Fonseca Santos (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 ÆNIGMA - Jogo ubíquo para o espaço urbano de Coimbra
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sara Filipa Malva Correia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 Modelação 3D de ambientes virtuais para aplicações de reabilitação no autismo
Thesis Member
 Hélio Jorge Simões Gonçalves (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Association for Computational Creativity – Secretary Role Secretary
2021 - Current AI for People International Association Head of Communications
2019 - Current Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) Webmaster
2019 - Current International Task Force for the Development of Computational Creativity
2019 - 2021 AI for People International Association Designer

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Member of Organisation team, Interdisciplinary College (IK 2024)
Member
2022 - Current Steering Committee Member, Association for Computational Creativity
Member
2022 - Current General Assembly Member, Association for Computational Creativity (ACC)
Member
2022 - 2022/03 Member of Organisation team, Interdisciplinary College (IK 2023)
2022 - 2022 Demo Chair of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 22)
2021 - 2021 General Chair of the International Conference on AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI
2019 - 2020 Media Chair of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 20) Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022 - Current ISD: The Image Schema Day (2022, 2023)
2021 - Current EvoMUSART: International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (2021, 2022, 2023)
2021 - Current CAOS: Cognition And OntologieS, Part of the Joint Ontology Workshops (2021, 2022)
2019 - Current ICCC: International Conference on Computational Creativity (2019 – )
2022 - 2022 xCoAx: Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
2021 - 2022 Emoji Worshop: International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media (2021, 2022)
2021 - 2021 WFCCS 2021: The 2nd Workshop on the Future of Co-Creative Systems at ICCC'21
2020 - 2020 EAI GOODTECHS 2020
2020 - 2020 WKBSCD: Workshop on Knowledge-Based Systems in Computational Design at ICCC'20
2015 - 2015 ISEA 2015 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 6th MatLit Summer School: Introduction to Processing
2017 - 2017 Adobe Premiere Pro Workshop, Summer University Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2017 5th MatLit Summer School, Introduction to Processing
2016 - 2016 Adobe Premiere Pro Workshop, Sumer University Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2013 After Effects Workshop Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2013 InDesign Workshop Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Transactions on Affective Computing IEEE
2022 - Current Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Springer.
2022 - Current Computer & Graphics Elsevier
2020 - Current New Generation Computing Journal
Distinctions

Award

2023 EvoMUSART 2023 best paper award
2022 Feedzai Award for Teaching Excellence
2019 Evostar 2019 Best Poster Award Emojinating: Evolving Emoji Blends
2014 Winner
Brevemente Design Competition, Portugal
2013 Selected to represent Portugal (2 Projects) in the VI Bienal de Jovens Criadores CPLP, Salvador, Bahia – Brazil
Clube Português de Artes e Ideias , Portugal
2012 The 3% Best Students Award in the year 2011/2012 – Students with higher Average Annual mark
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 Selected Project
Brevemente Design Competition, Portugal
2011 The 3% Best Students Award in the year 2010/2011 – Students with higher Average Annual mark
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2010 The 3% Best Students Award in the year 2009/2010 – Students with higher Average Annual mark
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009 The 3% Best Students Award in the year 2008/2009 – Students with higher University Application mark
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009 The 3% Best Students Award in the year 2008/2009 – Students with higher Average Annual mark
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2015 DAAD Intensive Language Course scholarship 2015
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany
2013 Selected Projects (2), Mostra Nacional Jovens Criadores 2013
Clube Português de Artes e Ideias , Portugal
2012 Pixel D'Ouro (Best Student Award in the academic year)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2011 Pixel D'Ouro (Best Student Award in the academic year)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal