Students and PostDocs
Students and PostDocsInterdisciplinary research,
education and capacity building
in advanced digital media
Hassan Najafi Alishah
ISTPhD student, Mathematics
Mathematical Interests: Differential Geometry, Symplectic & Poisson Geometry and their applications especially on Hamiltonian Systems. Lie Gruopoid and Lie Algebroids.
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 LISBOA
Portugal
André Almeida
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
Researcher, CETAC.media
André Valentim Pires de Almeida, Master degree in Information Management (University of Aveiro), PgDip in Health Informatics (UCL, UK) and degree in New Communication Technologies (University of Aveiro, having spent one semester in Erasmus at the University of Salford, UK).
Andre is currently pursuing his PhD on Interactive Documentary where he will research state of the art trends and outline best practices on how to produce an Interactive Documentary. The research will be practice-based since he will develop a prototype in order to test his findings.
Praça Coronel Pacheco, 8
4050-453 Porto
PORTUGAL
+351 223 393 660
Homepage: http://www.icicom.up.pt/~ava
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David Alves
U.CoimbraPhD student, Advanced Computing
He received the MsC degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 2007, devoting special attention to distributed systems and systems integration. Meanwhile he was working at Critical Software S.A., where he stayed for 2.5 years, and where he acquired solid computer programming skills manly in the areas of J2EE business applications, search engine development and distributed, highly available, computing and storage. While the interest in the parallel computing paradigm emerged while he was doing his BsC the professional projects that ensued provided both the background and the motivation to pursue the field of Advanced Computing.
CISUC (Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra)
Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra - Polo II
Universidade de Coimbra,
3030-290 Coimbra
Portugal.
Phone: +351 96 2381560
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Vítor Badalinho
FCSH/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Senior Web/System Architecture/Database Developer at Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Vítor Badalinho has a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences. His interest in Digital Media has grown in parallel to its own evolution and development as a global field of studies, particularly in the practice of communication design and database architecture. He took part in several projects studying the availability of Internet services related to the process of global digitization since in the mid nineties.
Through academic research and teaching as a lecturer in multimedia related subjects, he worked in several approaches of digital contents as a live, searchable and socially constructed system, exploring the relationships between the virtual data-bodies and their impact on physical materiality, as well as the innovative strategies and technologies that push the medium to the production of a new knowledge and daily practices, to an array of multiple purposes and applications.
Current studies are driven in the emerging area of augmented reality and its multidisciplinary approaches, in particular in the use of mobile systems provided by built-in GPS and accelerometer/magnetometer devices, creating a augmented reality effect where the user may interact with virtual layers or even modify them. His interest in this area is highly focused in the field of advertising.
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Ana Margarida Barata
Assistant at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), researched at the I&D Group, Graphics Interaction and Learning Technologies (GILT)
U.PortoPhD Student, Digital Media
Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature in Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto in 1998, Ana completed her Master in English Culture in the same faculty in 2005. Since 2001 she has been Assistant in the Computer Engineering Department (DEI) at ISEP where besides being responsible for the Technical English and Language skills course units she collaborates in the I&D group GILT, and is part of the direction board of the Multimedia Laboratory (LAMU). At present she is also responsible for the International Relations issues at DEI. Her research area is on interactive audiovisual media, focusing on activist digital art. In 2009 she was granted the UT-Austin|Portugal scholarship in Digital Media.
Rua A. Bernardino de Almeida, 431
P-4200-072 Porto Portugal
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João Barbosa
U.MinhoPhD Student, Advanced Computing
João is currently researching high-performance computer graphics.
"I focus on heterogeneous and many core platforms for real-time ray tracing. The goal of my research will be to explore and develop efficient scheduling mechanisms for distributed heterogenous platforms for real-time problems, such as ray-tracing and ray casting (volume rendering)."
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Pedro Bastos
FCT/FCUP/FEUPPhD student in facial animation
Pedro is a 3D animator passionate about film and videogame production. He is pursuing a PhD in computer graphics facial animation at the Porto Interactive Center. His research is supervised by Prof. Verónica Orvalho and funded by the FCT.
+351 965292908
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Diogo Cabral
FCT/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Diogo Cabral achieved his B.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, at the FCT, UNL. During his B.Sc. studies, he participated in the Erasmus/Socrates Exchange Program, at the Facoltà SMFN, Università di Pisa, Italy, which gave him a full year of experience as international student. In the last years of his graduation, Diogo Cabral became highly interested in multimedia and computer-human interaction fields. The work developed in his diploma project was the background for the mEmLearn project, awarded with the HP Technology Teaching Grant Initiative 2006. The mEmLearn project had the goal to promote the usage of Tablet PCs on education, developing new ways of annotation and interaction with this technology. Diogo Cabral worked 3 years in research projects (the mEmLearn project included) at CITI, FCT, UNL, which led him to pursue a Masters in Computer Science Engineering degree in FCT, UNL. In his Ph.D. work, Diogo Cabral proposes the usage of pen-based technology for the manipulation of digital video, with the aim to improve the digital media human interaction and combine multimedia and human-computer interaction research topics.
Centro de Investigação em Informática e Tecnologias da Informação, CITI,
Departamento de Informática, DI,
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, UNL
Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Phone: +351212948536 ext. 10720
Sandra Coelho
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
With a Degree in Communication Design / Graphic Art, and a Masters in Multimedia Art researching on Generative Art from the Fine Arts Faculty of Porto University, her purpose as a PhD student in Digital Media is to do research on dynamic surfaces that change their physical appearance and texturing when we touch them, to improve our tactile sensations when interacting with tangible media and intensify the physical experience between users and digital systems. Her thesis will be on Haptic Art – biomimetic artificial systems, exploring the intelligent materials, and the emergent sensitive technologies. Having much curiosity by the complexity of the natural systems will be researched ways of reproducing in artificial systems, elements of that complexity, with special emphasis on the experience of the tactile sensation, intensifying the interactivity of the media, and exploring the physical sensation that drives us to the essence of our natural environment. For a future with fewer cold screens and more live surfaces that sense, react, and change their physical state, as a response to our inputs.
Faculdade de Engenharia
Universidade do Porto
Porto
Portugal
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João Cruz
U.PortoPhD Student, Digital Media
Assistant Professor @ LDC FBAUP, MDI/MPTD/MEA FBAUP, MM FEUP/FBAUP/FLUP/FCUP/FEP
Master of Arts in Multimedia Art, FBAUP 2003.
Degree in Communication Design, FBAUP 1994.
Research areas: digital culture, design and database exploration.
PhD Thesis: Exploratory Strategies in Database-related Practices
Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 256
4049-021 Porto, Portugal
http://cruz.at
Diego Farias
ISTPhD student, Mathematics
Diego has a Master's degree in Mathematics on Partial Differential Equations, which is his area of interest.
As a PhD student under the UT Austin | Portugal Program, he is a first year student at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, under the guidance of the Professor Doctor Diogo Aguiar Gomes.
Instituto Superior Técnico
Departamento de Matemática
Lisboa, Portugal
Phone: +351 968 380 502
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Maria Fernanda Fernandes
UT AustinPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media
Researcher at FD-CEDIS/UNL
PhD in Political Science, Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Spain
DEA Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Spain
BBA Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Fernanda's main interests are in European Political Discourse and Political Communication.
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Marta Ferraz
FCT/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
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Domingos Ferreira
UT AustinPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media
Professor at FCSH/UNL
PhD in Engineering Systems and Production, Universidade do Minho
MBA Universidade do Minho
MBA European University
BBA Universidade do Minho
Domingo's main interests are in Marketing online buyer behaviour, B2b, B2C, B2G, branding.
Phone: +351964946797 or +351217908300 (ext. 1516)
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Carlos Figueiredo
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
Luís Frias
FCSH/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Education:
- Post Graduate Studies in New Media and Web Technologies, UNL | FCSH (2008-2009)
- Post Graduate Studies in Design Ergonomics for Information Systems, UTL | FMH (2005)
- Post Graduate Studies in Urban Design, CPD | Barcelona University (2003-2004)
- BA in Communication Design, FBAUL (1992-1996)
Professional Experience:
- Graphic Designer, Freelance (1995-2009);
- New Media Product Development Director, WAY Marketing Agency (2007-2008)
- Creative Director, WAY Marketing Agency (2006-2007)
- Assistant Professor, Portalegre Polytechnic School, Design Dept., IPP-ESTG (1999-2006)
Research Abstract:
Interactive Narratives in a Multisensorial Environment - The development of new digital systems and the relative accessibility of digital tools for the design, printing and production of narrative content has led traditional distribution and broadcasted narrative content to a dead end. A new interactive, personalized relationship which developed first between videogames and their audience, and later with PC based game narratives, has profoundly influenced all of the narrative media formats. In order to achieve a fully interactive, multisensory narrative experience, research is necessary in both the conceptual area of collaborative storytelling (which allows the audience to contribute to the script through interaction) and in the physical computer systems and interfaces which can read and produce the final output multi-sensorially.
Luís Gomes
FCSH/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Luís Gomes’s experience lies in analysis of consumer-business relationships and in marketing, including five years heading the Marketing Department at Público, one of Portugal’s major newspapers. His research interests focus on digital advertising, its characterization and permission marketing.
Tel. +1 512 9034609; +35193 7501080
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Rui Gonçalves
U.Minho / MAP-iPhD student, Advanced Computing
Rui Gonçalves is a PhD student in the MAP-i joint doctoral program in Computer Science, currently spending six months at UT Austin to attend courses and work with his co-advisor at UT CS, Don Batory.
His PhD thesis in progress is in parallel programming, particularly methodologies that improve modularity and promote the incremental development of parallel applications.
http://cs.utexas.edu/~rcg
http://alfa.di.uminho.pt/~rgoncalves
http://rcg-pt.net
Hugo Machado
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
After attending Electronics and Computers at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto and graduating from Middlesex University in Jazz Composition, Machado completed the Masters in Multimedia in Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. His academic and professional backgrounds bring together computer science and arts.
In the field of music, Machado composed the theme for the 50 year celebration of "Estádio das Antas" and co-wrote with António Mão-de-Ferro the hymn for the inter-school Handball World Championship to take place in 2010, working with Direcção Regional de Educação do Norte. As a web-developer he worked in the research project DicMil (dicmil.iscap.pt) at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto with Dr. Manuel Moreira da Silva and the Centro de Multimédia e Línguas.
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n
4200-465 Porto
PORTUGAL
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António Maneira
FCSH/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
António Maneira is currently pursuing his PhD on Digital Media where he will research state of the art trends and outline best practices in the development and use of interactive learning resources.
He has a Master in Communication Sciences in 2008, project in which he did research on e-learning Interfaces in the FCSH-UNL.
From 2007 to 2009 he worked at the e.Learning Laboratory of FCT-UNL as an e-learning assistant officer providing support to teachers in e-learning activities; He also worked as an administrator of two Learning Management Systems (Moodle and Blackboard), and provided courses and consulting activities for teachers using ICT.
From 2005 to 2007 he worked in a project called “A Universalidade dos Saberes” at FCT-UNL as a designer and supervising the development, implementation and evaluation of resources and activities for teaching and learning online.
Since 2003 to 2006 he worked as a designer and programmer in several projects.
He graduated in Communication Design in 2003 at the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa.
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