João Miguel Barradas Luzio (831E-1197-E9BF)

Curriculum Vitae

João Miguel Barradas Luzio

João Miguel Barradas Luzio is an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student, at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)/ Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS) in IST, Lisbon, Portugal. Simultaneously, he has a contract as an Invited Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) in IST. João Luzio holds a bachelor’s degree (Cum Laude) and a master’s degree (Summa Cum Laude) in electrical and computer engineering, awarded by Instituto Superior Técnico in July 2021 and November 2023, respectively. His master's dissertation entitled "Semantic-Based Active Perception for Humanoid Visual Tasks: Scene Exploration and Visual Search in Foveal Scenes using Deep Object Detection Models" was supervised by Prof. Alexandre Bernardino and Dr. Plinio Moreno allowed him to specialize in Control, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence, while his secondary area of specialization is Networks and Communication Systems.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Miguel Barradas Luzio
Date of birth: 2000/08/11
Gender: Male

Citation names

Luzio, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 831E-1197-E9BF
ORCID iD: 0009-0005-2261-1595

Email addresses

joaoluzio14@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://sites.google.com/view/joaoluzio (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/02/16 - 2029/03/01 Ongoing	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Active Visual Perception in Humanoid Robotics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2021/09/13 - 2023/11/30 Concluded	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado) Major in Controlo, Robótica e Inteligência Artificial Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Semantic-Based Active Perception for Humanoid Visual Tasks: Scene Exploration and Visual Search in Foveal Scenes using Deep Object Detection Models" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2018/09/12 - 2021/07/12 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/12/02 - 2021/09/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
	Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal (...)

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/02/28 - 2025/02/27	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/11/14 - 2023/07/21	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/03/01 - 2029/02/28	Active Perception and Spatial Representations for Efficient Humanoid Vision: the role of Semantics, Contextual Features, and Hard-Attention Mechanisms 2024.00683.BD PhD Student Fellow Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/12/02 - 2021/09/01	LARSyS - Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems UIDB/50009/2020 BL91/2020 Scientific Initiation Fellow Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Luzio, João; Bernardino, Alexandre; Moreno, Plinio. Corresponding author: Luzio, João. "Human Scanpath Prediction in Target-Present Visual Search with Semantic-Foveal Bayesian Attention". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference in Development and Learning, Prague, 2025. Published • 10.1109/icdl63968.2025.11204443
Preprint	Luzio, João; Bernardino, Alexandre; Moreno, Plinio. "Semantic-Based Active Perception for Humanoid Visual Tasks with Foveal Sensors". 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10836.
Thesis / Dissertation	"Semantic-Based Active Perception for Humanoid Visual Tasks: Scene Exploration and Visual Search in Foveal Scenes using Deep Object Detection Models". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2023. https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/CqeK5aQExSqWzTuKbakyfhzxWPaOpf551U86.

Activities

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/11/13 - 2025/01/10	Modelling and Simulation	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09/09 - 2024/10/25	Machine Learning	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/04/15 - 2024/05/31	Autonomous Systems	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/02/14 - 2024/03/27	Distributed Real-Time Control Systems	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/05/02 - 2023/06/16	Computer Architecture	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/04/14	Programming	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/11/21 - 2023/02/13	Digital Systems	Engenharia Aeroespacial (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2025/02/21 - 2025/03/03	European Journal of Scientific Research and Reviews (3041-4296)	WisdomGale

Distinctions

Award

2025	Outstanding Teaching Diploma 2023/2024 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024	Academic Merit Diploma 2022/2023 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024	Outstanding Teaching Diploma 2022/2023 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024	Brito Camacho Award 2023/2024 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023	Academic Merit Diploma 2021/2022 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022	Academic Merit Diploma 2020/2021 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021	Academic Excellence Diploma 2019/2020 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020	Academic Merit Diploma 2018/2019 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal