Afonso O’Neill

PhD Student

Has been researching collective intelligence tools for decision making support. Namely, he has been applying prediction market platforms to public policy decision making.
He would like to extend his research to other collective intelligence / collaborative tools, including creating add-ons to the existing prediction market platform (preferably based on mobile devices) as a means to better support decision making by aggregating dispersed information in useful ways.

Filipe Pais

PhD student, Digital Media

After finishing a degree on Sound and Image at ESAD.cr, Filipe worked as a multimedia designer at Ydreams and as assistant teacher at ESAD.cr and he's been developing new media projects since 2004. Following the knowledge produced by practical and theoretical research during the last years, his aim as a student on the Digital Media program, is to investigate interactive contemporary art forms mediated by technological systems. Through the understanding of the artist-artwork-spectator interconnection and the recognition of experience as the “raison d'être” of this triangle, his interdisciplinary investigation aims to develop an effective immaterial interaction model based on immersive qualities.

Homepage: http://www.la-neige-en-ete.net/filipe/

Paulo Rosa

PhD student, Digital Media

Paulo Rosa has a degree in Environmental Engineering and an MSc in the field of e-Participation both from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - New University of Lisbon (Portugal). Before starting his PhD, he worked for 3 years at the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), European Commission - Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC). His work was focused on the research and development of innovative information and communication technologies; on the design and implementation of virtual citizen participatory methods; and on the development of online interactive applications to extended governance initiatives in areas of risk governance and sustainability.

His PhD will be focused on the research and development of new interactive surfaces based on subtracts such as paper, plastic, glass or textiles.

Homepage: http://paulorosa.no.sapo.pt

Reus Salini

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

Research Interests

• Application of neural networks in asphalt pavement modeling and behavior prediction.

Hugo Santos

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics

Holding a PhD in Civil Engineering in the field of Applied and Computational Mechanics from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Santos has been involved mainly with the development of mathematical models for the analysis of nonlinear structural engineering problems. Pursuing a Post-Doc in Mathematics reflects his keen desire to bring mathematical methods into the field of Mechanics.

Rossana Santos

PhD student, Digital Media

Rossana Santos graduated in Applied Mathematics and Computation in 2002 from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Received her MSc degree in Computer Science in 2007 from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Started the PhD Programme in Computer Science/Informatics in 2008 from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a lecturer since 2003 atDepartamento de Sistemas e Informática, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal.

Her current research interests include augmented reality, video processing, mobile computing and human-computer interaction.

Departamento de Informática

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Quinta da Torre

2829-516 Caparica

Portugal

Edgar Sousa

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

For the past few years, I've been working on high-performance computing using aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to develop tools for (semi-)automatic parallelization of legacy scientific codes.

LinkedIn: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/edgarsousa

Edgar Teixeira

PhD student, Digital Media

Rafayel Teymurazyan

PhD Student, Mathematics

It has been a year and a half since Rafayel started studying free boundary problems, in particular obstacle problems, regularity and stability of the solution. During this time with his supervisor Prof. José Francisco Rodrigues, he has worked on obstacle type problems in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.

Complexo Interdisciplinar

CMAF, Faculdade de Ciências

Universidade de Lisboa

Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2,

1649-003, Lisboa, Portugal

Sala B3-15

Phone: +351 217 904 700 ext. 34315

Paulo Nuno Vicente

PhD Student, Digital Media

Paulo Nuno Vicente works as a journalist in Antena 1, the Portuguese public service radio. As a reporter he has produced several special reports, mainly in Guinea-Bissau, S. Tomé and Príncipe, Ceuta and Melilla, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel and West Bank, Chad and Central African Republic.

He is graduated in Journalism (University of Coimbra), has an Advanced Formation on Journalism and Religion (Portuguese Catholic University) and a degree on Arab Language and Islamic Culture (University of Lisbon). He is now a PhD fellow in Online Journalism at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences – New University of Lisbon, in the scope of the UT Austin-Portugal Program.

He studies mobile phone use in low and middle-income countries (World Bank categorization) through a collaborative journalism perspective. The main objective of this research is to capture original data and reflect on the main trends in mobile use in developing countries, particularly on how citizens and journalists from less economic developed countries are using digital mobile communication characteristics to enhance new forms of public information.

http://www.pnvicente.com/chaodepapel/
http://dev-mojo.com: Mobile Journalism and Development
+351 962056247

Tiago Videira

PhD Student, Digital Media

One branch of the traditional Portuguese Fado, the Fado Castiço, is a genre that has been typified over the years. One of my goals would be to re-transcribe these original fados as ambient instrumental arrangements and then assemble them forming a database. Then, create a system that successfully generates new ambient instrumental Fado music, based on the database content. The generative/algoritmic process also aims to be interactive, that means, responsive to user constraints, concerning musical and aesthetical parameters, such as tempo, rhythm, or general mood of the Fado.