João Luís Ruivo Carvalho Paulo (271E-BA51-B2FE)

Curriculum Vitae

João Luís Ruivo Carvalho Paulo

João Paulo has concluded his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra (UC) in June 2018, with the subject “A Multimodal HMI Approach for Interaction, User Modeling and Automatic Gait Analysis on a Robotic Walker”. For his PhD works, he was awarded a doctoral grant from FCT considering his curricular merit and research proposal (~60k euros). Since that date, João Paulo has continued and expanded his research. He became a post-doc researcher in two R&D projects, increasing his experience which led to Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator roles for FCT-funded projects and one PT2020 project. He has organized, published, and reviewed on international journals and conferences, and established collaborations with international Universities, clinical centers and several private sector companies to partner in his research activities and transfer of knowledge, being the founder of a research spin-off company. He is also an invited assistant professor at the University of Coimbra.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Luís Ruivo Carvalho Paulo

Citation names

Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 271E-BA51-B2FE
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2924-1687
Google Scholar ID: João Ruivo Paulo

Email addresses

jpaulo@isr.uc.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012 - 2018/06/20 Concluded	PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering - Automation and Robotics (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "A Multimodal HMI Approach for Interaction, User Modeling and Automatic Gait Analysis on a Robotic Walker" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with praise and distinction
2008/09 - 2010/10 Concluded	MSc. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Automation and Electronics (Mestrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal "Customizable data acquisition system" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2005/09 - 2008/06 Concluded	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
	Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC, Portugal
2018/02 - 2019/12	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

2012/02 - 2018/09	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

2011/01 - 2011/12	Research Assistant (Research)	ISA - Intelligente Sensing Anywhere, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/01 - 2031/12	Insight4ASD - Machine Learning-based Approaches for Autism Spectrum Disorder Characterization and Design of Interaction Systems 2023.07023.CEECIND/CP2863/CT0001 Principal investigator Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/07/01 - Current	Move4ASD - Multimodal Motion Analysis Using Machine Learning-based Techniques for Autism Spectrum Disorder Characterization UIDB/0048/2020 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal	Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/03/01 - Current	CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-069730 iProMo - Intelligent Systems for Grinding Process Control CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-069730 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2021/03/01 - Current	CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-046983 InGestAlgae - Intelligent Platform for Microalgae Production Management CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-046983 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2021/01/01 - Current	CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-047148 INPACT - Intelligent Platform for Autonomous Collaborative Telerehabilitation CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-047148 Institutional Co-Principal Investigator Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2020/01/01 - Current	PTDC/EEI-AUT/30935/2017 B-RELIABLE: Boosting reliability and interaction on brain-machine interface systems integrating automatic error-detection 030935 Post-doc Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2019/12 - Current	PCIF/SSI/0151/2018 IMFire - Intelligent Management of Wildfires PCIF/SSI/0151/2018 Co-Principal Investigator Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2017/02/01 - 2020/01/31	POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017644 HTPDIR - Human Tracking and Perception in Dynamic Immersive Rooms POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017644 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2013/01/01 - 2015/12/30	RECI/EEI-AUT/0181/2012 AMS-HMI12 - ASSISTED MOBILITY SUPPORTED BY SHARED-CONTROL AND ADVANCED HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES RECI/EEI-AUT/0181/2012 Researcher Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2012/01/01	QREN 2008/2629 PAAL Pulsoft Ambient Assisted Living QREN 2008/2629 Researcher ISA - Intelligente Sensing Anywhere, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded
2009 - 2012	PTDC/SEN-TRA/099413/2008 EVSIM09 Models for traffic simulation of electric vehicles with communications and dynamic decision capacity PTDC/SEN-TRA/099413/2008 Researcher Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Girão, Pedro; Paulo, João; Garrote, Luís; Peixoto, Paulo. "Real-Time Multi-view Grid Map-Based Spatial Representation for Mixed Reality Applications". In Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics, 322-339. Springer International Publishing, 2018. 10.1007/978-3-319-95270-3_27
Conference paper	Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho; et al.. Corresponding author: Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho. "A Framework For Motor Function Characterization in Autism Spectrum Disorder". Paper presented in IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2023. Accepted Jorge Pereira; Jerome Mendes; Jorge S. S. Junior; Carlos Viegas; Joao Ruivo Paulo. "Wildfire Spread Prediction Model Calibration Using Metaheuristic Algorithms". 2022. 10.1109/iecon49645.2022.9968435 Alberto Zancanaro, Giulia Cisotto, João Ruivo Paulo, Gabriel Pires, Urbano J Nunes. "CNN-based Approaches For Cross-Subject Classification in Motor Imagery: From the State-of-The-Art to DynamicNet". Paper presented in 2021 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), 2021. 10.1109/cibcb49929.2021.9562821 João Ruivo Paulo, Luís Garrote, Paulo Peixoto, Urbano J Nunes. "Spatiotemporal 2D Skeleton-based Image for Dynamic Gesture Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks". Paper presented in 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021. 10.1109/ro-man50785.2021.9515418 Jorge SS Júnior, Jérôme Mendes, Rui Araújo, João Ruivo Paulo, Cristiano Premebida. "Novelty Detection for Iterative Learning of MIMO Fuzzy Systems". Paper presented in 2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2021. 10.1109/indin45523.2021.9557354 Jorge S. S. Júnior; Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho; Jéroôme Mendes; Daniela Alves; Luís Mário Ribeiro. "Automatic Calibration of Forest Fire Weather Index For Independent Customizable Regions Based on Historical Records". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE AIKE 2020), California, 2020. Published Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho. "Markerless Multi-View-based Multi-User Head Tracking System for Virtual Reality Applications". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2019)., Bari, 2019. Accepted Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho. "Multi-View Robust Gesture Recognition for Assistive Interfaces". Paper presented in MEDICON 2019 the 15th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing., Coimbra, 2019. Accepted Garrote, Luis; Paulo, Joao; Perdiz, Joao; Peixoto, Paulo; Nunes, Urbano J.. "Robot-Assisted Navigation for a Robotic Walker with Aided User Intent". Paper presented in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), 2018. 10.1109/roman.2018.8525674 Luis Garrote; Jose Rosa; Joao Paulo; Cristiano Premebida; Paulo Peixoto; Urbano J. Nunes. "3D point cloud downsampling for 2D indoor scene modelling in mobile robotics". Paper presented in IEEE ICARSC, Coimbra, 2017. Published • 10.1109/icarsc.2017.7964080 J. Paulo; L. Garrote; C. Premebida; A. Asvadi; D. Almeida; A. Lopes; P. Peixoto. "An innovative robotic walker for mobility assistance and lower limbs rehabilitation". Paper presented in IEEE ENBENG, Coimbra, 2017. Published • 10.1109/enbeng.2017.7889450 Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho; L. Garrote; A. Asvadi; C. Premebida; Paulo Peixoto. "Short-Range Gait Pattern Analysis for Potential Applications on Assistive Robotics". Paper presented in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Lisboa, 2017. Published Joao Paulo; Paulo Peixoto; Urbano Nunes. "A novel vision-based human-machine interface for a robotic walker framework". Paper presented in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Kobe, 2015. Published • 10.1109/roman.2015.7333590 Paulo, J.; Peixoto, P.. "Classification of reaching and gripping gestures for safety on walking aids". Paper presented in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Edinburgh, UK, 2014. Published • 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926344 Marco Silva; Fernando Moita; Urbano Nunes; Luis Garrote; Hugo Faria; Joao Ruivo. "ISRobotCar: The autonomous electric vehicle project". Paper presented in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, 2012. Published • 10.1109/iros.2012.6386292
Conference poster	Viegas, Carlos; Paulo, João Luís Ruivo Carvalho; Mendes, Jérôme; et al.. "IMFire - An Intelligent Wildfire Management and Decision Support System". Paper presented in International Wildland Fire Conference, 2023.
Journal article	Pereira, Jorge; Mendes, Jérôme; Júnior, Jorge S.S.; Viegas, Carlos; Paulo, João Ruivo. "Metaheuristic algorithms for calibration of two-dimensional wildfire spread prediction model". Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 136 (2024): 108928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108928. 10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108928 Jorge SS Júnior, João Ruivo Paulo, Jérôme Mendes, Daniela Alves, Luís Mário Ribeiro, Carlos Viegas. "Automatic forest fire danger rating calibration: Exploring clustering techniques for regionally customizable fire danger classification". Expert Systems with Applications 193 (2022): 116380-116380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116380. 10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116380 Jorge Pereira; Jérôme Mendes; Jorge S. S. Júnior; Carlos Viegas; João Ruivo Paulo. "A Review of Genetic Algorithm Approaches for Wildfire Spread Prediction Calibration". Mathematics 10 3 (2022): 300-300. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10030300. 10.3390/math10030300 Paula Amorim; João Ruivo Paulo; Paula Alexandra Silva; Paulo Peixoto; Miguel Castelo-Branco; Henrique Martins. "Machine Learning Applied to Low Back Pain Rehabilitation – A Systematic Review". International Journal of Digital Health (2021): https://doi.org/10.29337/ijdh.34. 10.29337/ijdh.34 Joao Ruivo Paulo; Gabriel Pires; Urbano J. Nunes. "Cross-Subject Zero Calibration Driver’s Drowsiness Detection: Exploring Spatiotemporal Image Encoding of EEG Signals for Convolutional Neural Network Classification". IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2021): 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3079505. 10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3079505 Luís Garrote; João Paulo; Urbano J. Nunes. "Reinforcement Learning Aided Robot-Assisted Navigation: A Utility and RRT Two-Stage Approach". International Journal of Social Robotics (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00585-0. 10.1007/s12369-019-00585-0 J. Paulo; P. Peixoto; P. Amorim. "Trajectory-based gait pattern shift detection for assistive robotics applications". Intelligent Service Robotics (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-019-00280-z. 10.1007/s11370-019-00280-z João Paulo, Alireza Asvadi, Paulo Peixoto, Paula Amorim. "Human gait pattern changes detection system: A multimodal vision-based and novelty detection learning approach". Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 37 4 (2017): 701-717. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.bbe.2017.08.002. Published • 10.1016/j.bbe.2017.08.002 Joao Paulo; Paulo Peixoto; Urbano J. Nunes; Paulo, Joao; Peixoto, Paulo; Nunes, Urbano J.. "ISR-AIWALKER: Robotic Walker for Intuitive and Safe Mobility Assistance and Gait Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 99 (2017): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1109%2Fthms.2017.2759807. Published • 10.1109/thms.2017.2759807

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/03/22	Invited speaker, "Artificial Intelligence for Neuroscience Applications: Interfaces and Characterization"	Brain Gain (Portugal)
2022/07/19	Invited speaker, "The role of advanced fire behaviour models supported by AI to predict fire spread and aid in the decision-making process during a wildfire"	National Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Mathematics (Portugal)
2022/05/26	Invited Speaker, "Intelligent and Automatic Fall Risk Assessment of the Older Adult Living in the Community"	International Meeting of Nursing (Portugal)
2021/06/17	Mental States Characterization and Detection Using EEG for Driving and Motor Tasks	Workshop on "Brain-Computer Interfaces and Related Science & Technologies" Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/09 - 2022/09/26	Skeleton Based Motion Analysis and Assessment for Telerehabilitation Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/08/31	DAAD RISE mobility grant Supervisor	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/08/31	Erasmus+ internship Supervisor	Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/09	WOUND MEASUREMENT USING LIDAR INTEGRATED ON AN IPHONE Co-supervisor	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2020/02 - 2021/09	Skeleton Fusion for Gesture Recognitions in Augmented Reality Environments Supervisor	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/02	M.Sc. Thesis Project "Skeleton Fusion for Gesture Recognition in Augmented Reality" Co-supervisor	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/07	M.Sc. Thesis Project "Skeleton Fusion for Gesture Recognition in Augmented Reality" Co-supervisor	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2019 - 2019/07	M.Sc. Thesis Project "Skeleton Fusion for Gestures Recognition in Augmented Reality Environments" Supervisor	Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22	Session moderator (2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22) Round table (Other)
2022/07/14 - 2022/07/14	1st Open day + Workshop (2022/07/14 - 2022/07/14) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - UC, Portugal
2019/09 - 2019/09	Main organizer of special session INT4DAT - "Intelligent Systems and Technologies for Diagnostics, Assistance, and Therapeutics" at MEDICON 2019 (2019/09 - 2019/09) Conference
2017/08 - 2017/09	Local Arrangement Team Member for the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017. (2017/08 - 2017/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/03/01 - 2023/03/02	Exhibitor at the Natural Disasters Expo 2023, Miami Exhibition	Exhibitor at the Natural Disasters Expo

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2022/09/23	Master's thesis, "Federated Learning for the Prediction of Net Energy Demand in Communities of Buildings" (Thesis) Main arguer	Nuno Mendes (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/07/27	PhD thesis, "Gait Analysis in Hereditary Amyloidosis Associated to Variant Transthyretin" (Thesis) Arguer	Maria do Carmo Olazabal (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/07/27	PhD thesis research plan, "Explainable Deep Learning Based Epileptic Seizure Classification with Clinical 3D Motion Capture" (Thesis) Main arguer	Tamás Karácsony (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2019/04 - Current	Program committee member MEDICON 2019
2022/07 - 2022/07	Program Committee Summer School (Robotics and Applied Machine Learning '22) Member	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/07 - 2021/07	Program Committee Summer School (Robotics and Applied Machine Learning '21) Member	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/09	Summer School on: Robotics and Applied Machine Learning (RML), Edition 2020 Member	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/09	Program Committee Summer School (Robotics and Applied Machine Learning '20) Member	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022/05/26 - 2022/05/27	International Meeting of Nursing	Nursing School of Lisbon

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/07 - 2022/07	Summer School on: Robotics and Applied Machine Learning (RML), Edition 2022		Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/09	Summer School on: Robotics and Applied Machine Learning (RML), Edition 2021		Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2020/09 - 2020/09	Summer School on: Robotics and Applied Machine Learning (RML), Edition 2020		Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/01	Projecto I	(Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/03 - Current	Scientific Supervisor Research Fellowship (BI Grant)	Jorge S. Silveira Júnior
2020/07 - 2020/09	Scientific Supervisor Research Fellowship (BIC Grant)	Guilherme Lins

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2020/12 - Current	Reviewer Board Member of Biosensors Journal	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute AG, Switzerland
2012 - Current	Conference and journal reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems (Journal); IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (Journal); Intelligent Service Robotics (Journal); MDPI Sensors (Journal); MDPI Applied Sciences (Journal); IEEE RO-MAN (Conference); IEEE IROS (Conference); IEEE ICORR (Conference); IEEE ENBENG (Conference); ROBOTICA (Conference);

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/01 - 2024/01	Visiting Faculty at Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Oxford University, UK.	University of Oxford - Old Road Campus, United Kingdom
2023/12 - 2023/12	Visiting Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA.	Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Distinctions

Award

2021	Best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN’21. IEEE, United States
2008	Merit Scholarship Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2007	Merit Scholarship
2006	Merit Scholarship

Other distinction

2012	FCT Doctoral Research Grant Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal