Daniel Filipe Santos Lopes (DB1B-B1FB-256D)

Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Filipe Santos Lopes

Danie’Lopes is a multimedia designer and programmer. Currently, he is a researcher in the Cognitive Media Systems Lab., of the Centre of Informatics and systems of the University of Coimbra, and a PhD student in Science and Technologies of Informations at the same institution. Moreover, he is an Assistant Professor in the Design and Multimedia course, University of Coimbra, the co-founder of the design group Apostrophe & Slash, and a designer and front-end developer at Takinobori. His Ph.D. thesis regards the creation of an AI system to aid the exploration of innovative graphic design solutions, by applying machine learning and evolutionary algorithms (based on Darwin’s evolution theory). His interests include graphic and type design, artificial intelligence, computational creativity, evolutionary computation and information visualization. He is also a member of the "Art Directors Club of Europe", "Clube de Criativos de Portugal" and "Há Baixa" (a non-profit association for Social Design and Architecture).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Daniel Filipe Santos Lopes

Citation names

Lopes, Daniel
Danie'Lopes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: DB1B-B1FB-256D
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0984-9775

Email addresses

dfl@dei.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Daniel Lopes (F2.3) Departamento de Engenharia Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra, Pólo II - Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://cdv.dei.uc.pt/people/daniel-lopes (Scholar)
https://instagram.com/danifslopes (Social media)
https://linkedin.com/in/danie-lopes-4404257b (Social media)
https://cisuc.uc.pt/people/show/11943 (Scholar)
https://apostropheandslash.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/12/17 - 2024/09/01 Ongoing	Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento) Major in Sistemas Inteligentes / Criatividade Computacional Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Exploring Innovative Graphic Design Solutions Through Computer-aided Techniques" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/08/25 - 2018/09/07 Concluded	Design e Multimédia (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Arquivo Digital do Centro Histórico de Coimbra" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18.15
2013/09/26 - 2017/09/01 Concluded	Design e Multimédia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	13.322

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/05/28 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

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

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/09 - 2023/09	Exploring new graphic design paradigms through computer-aided creativity SFRH/BD/143553/2019	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/07/01 - 2020/04	MomentumZai - Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Universidade de Coimbra Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Daniel Lopes; João Correia; Penousal Machado. "EvoDesigner: Aiding the Exploration of Innovative Graphic Design Solutions". 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_25 Daniel Lopes; João Correia; Penousal Machado. "EvoDesigner: Towards Aiding Creativity in Graphic Design". 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4_11
Conference paper	Macedo, João; Lopes, Daniel; Correia, João; Machado, Penousal; Costa, Ernesto. "Evolving Visually-Diverse Graphic Design Posters". Paper presented in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), Aberystwyth, 2024. Lopes, Daniel; Jéssica Parente (DF1F-83E1-0E0C); Pedro Nuno Silva (3813-B617-13A5); Licinio Gomes Roque; Fernando Jorge Penousal Martins Machado (F414-96CE-1D6B). "Can Creativity be Enhanced by Computational Tools?". Paper presented in Conference: 14th international conference on computational creativity (ICCC'23)At: Waterloo, Canada, Waterloo, 2023. Lopes, Daniel; Correia, João; Fernando Jorge Penousal Martins Machado (F414-96CE-1D6B). "Towards the Automatic Customisation of Editable Graphics". Paper presented in 14th international conference on computational creativity (ICCC'23), Waterloo, 2023. Lopes, Daniel; Correia, João; Fernando Jorge Penousal Martins Machado (F414-96CE-1D6B). "Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Visual Balance for Graphic Design Posters". Paper presented in 14th international conference on computational creativity (ICCC'23), Waterloo, 2023. Gonçalves, Ricardo. "Promoting climate awareness through the design of interactive moving posters". Bilbao, 2022. 10.21606/drs.2022.741 Lopes, Daniel; Fernando Jorge Penousal Martins Machado (F414-96CE-1D6B). "Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in the Graphic Design Workflow". Paper presented in 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2020), 2020. Published Lopes, Daniel; Fernando Jorge Penousal Martins Machado (F414-96CE-1D6B). "Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in Typeface Design". 2020. Published • 10.1145/3377929.3389964 Lopes, Daniel; Martins, Pedro; Machado, Penousal. "Olhos Music Fest _Branding". Paper presented in 22nd International Conference on Information Visualisation, Salerno, 2018. 10.1109/iv.2018.00094
Journal article	Daniel Lopes; João Correia; Penousal Machado. "EvoDesigner: Evolving Poster Layouts". Entropy (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/e24121751. 10.3390/e24121751 Correia, João; Lopes, Daniel; Vieira, Leonardo; Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nereida; Carballal, Adrian; Romero, Juan; Machado, Penousal. "Experiments in evolutionary image enhancement with ELAINE". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 23 4 (2022): 557-579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-022-09445-9. 10.1007/s10710-022-09445-9 Silva, Pedro; Lopes, Daniel; Martins, Pedro; Machado, Penousal. "Field of Leaves: An Interactive Installation Sprouting Leaves Out of Public Money". Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 5 4 (2022): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3533683. 10.1145/3533683
Thesis / Dissertation	Lopes, Daniel. "Arquivo Digital do Centro Histórico de Coimbra". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2018. https://estagios.dei.uc.pt/cursos/mdm/ano-letivo-2017-2018/p/?idestagio=2766.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition	Mariana Seiça; Pedro Martins. Sonus Populi. 2019. Martins, Pedro; Lopes, Daniel. Murmur. 2018. Lopes, Daniel; Martins, Pedro; Cruz, Tiago. O telefone - máquina do tempo n°1. 2018.
Musical performance	Gabriel Salvador; João Toscano; Vasco Faím. Sonus Populi — Performance. 2019. Instrumentalist
Sound design	Daniel Lopes, Gabriel Salvador (Writer / Producer). 2020. Lixofone.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/06	Conference Speaker: Can Creativity be Enhanced by Computational Tools?	14th international conference on computational creativity (ICCC'23) (Waterloo, Canada)
2023/06	Conference Speaker: Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Visual Balance for Graphic Design Posters	(Waterloo, Canada)
2023/06	Poster Presentation: Towards the Automatic Customisation of Editable Graphics	14th international conference on computational creativity (ICCC'23) (Waterloo, Canada)
2022/04	Conference Speaker: EvoDesigner: Towards Aiding Creativity in Graphic Design	EvoMUSART 2022 (Madrid, Spain)
2020/07	Conference Speaker: Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in the Graphic Design Workflow	XCOAX 2020 (Graz, Australia)
2020/07	Conference Speaker: Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in Typeface Design	(Cancún, Mexico)
2018/08	Speaker at the public presentation of the Digital Archive of Coimbra's Historical Centre	Presentation of the Digital Archive of Coimbra's Historical Centre Convento São Francisco (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/07	Conference Speaker: Olhos Music Fest Branding	IV18 International Conference on Information Visualisation (Salerno, Italy)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2023/09	Co-supervisor of the Master's Dissertation: Design Evaluator — Plataforma web para avaliação colaborativa de artefactos de design gráfico Co-supervisor	Design e Multimedia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07	Co-supervisor of the Master's Dissertation: Saco da Baixa: explorando a interatividade no design de exposição Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07	Co-supervisor of the Master's Dissertation: Generative Modeling for Automated Type Design Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2020/09 - 2022/02	Co-supervisor of the Master's Dissertation: Metamorphosis Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/04 - 2022/06	Designer and organizer at the poster session "Qual é o Teu Poster" (2022/06 - 2022/06) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
2019/03 - 2019/06	Designer, developer and local staff at the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI 2019) (2019/06 - 2019/06) Other (Other)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2018/06 - 2018/06	Local Staff at the 15th Internation Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (2018/06 - 2018/06) Conference (Other)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/04 - 2023/04	Host in CMD Talks 2023, Session 2 : Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet.	CMD Talks 2023 Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2020/12 - 2020/12	Workshop lecturer at Processing Cummunity Day (PCD) Coimbra	Processing Cummunity Day (PCD) Coimbra Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020/08 - Current	Clube de Criativos de Portugal
2020/08 - Current	Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE)
2020 - 2024/02	President of the General Assembly at Há Baixa	Presidente da Assembleia Geral
2018/09 - 2021/09	Member of AIGA, the professional association for design	Contributor
2019/05 - 2020/10	The One Club for Creativity

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/05 - 2023/05	Reviewer at the 14th international conference on computational creativity (ICCC'23)	Waterloo, Canada

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2018/08	Entrevista à agencia Lusa sobre o Arquivo Digital do Centro Histórico de Coimbra	LUSA

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/07 - 2020/09	Co-supervisor of the Internship ARQUIVO DIGITAL DO CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE COIMBRA	José Miguel Neto Braga
2020/07 - 2020/09	Co-supervisor of the Internship ARQUIVO DIGITAL DO CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE COIMBRA — Backoffice	Diogo João Durães Antunes
2020/07 - 2020/09	Co-supervisor of the Internship ARQUIVO DIGITAL DO CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE COIMBRA — Back/frontend	Rodrigo Ferreira de Almeida Martins

Distinctions

Award

2020	Nomeação/Finalista nos The European Design Awards
2020	Prémios Inovação, UI e UX nos CSS Design Awards
2020	Prémio Special KUDOS nos CSS Design Awards
2019	Primeiro prémio na criação da imagem gráfica das Comemorações dos 25 anos do Departamento de Engenharia Informática da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019	Nomeação/Finalista nos European Design Awards
2019	Prémio de mérito nos ADC Young Ones
2019	Prémio de bronze nos Creativity International Awards

Other distinction

2023	Top 3 shortlisted for the best poster award at EvoMusart 2023
2021	Selected to the exhibition {Between} — An Inventory of Anachronic Practices, in Nest Collective Downtown (Coimbra) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2019	Seleção Ensaios, Caminhos do Cinema Português