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Manuel Lopes. Completed the Doutoramento in PhD in 2006 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico and Licenciatura in Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores in 2000 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. Is Associated Professor of Computer Science in Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico and Researcher in Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa. Published 19 articles in journals. Supervised 3 PhD thesis(es) and co-supervised 2. Has received 4 awards and/or honors. He participated, and coordinate, in various European and national projects. The main topics of research are: active learning approach; (inverse) reinforcement learner; robot; task acquisition; task representations; learning; human-robot interaction; (artificial intelligence); ergonomics; multi-agent systems; multi-robot systems; path planning; optimization formulation.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Manuel Lopes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0A12-41BD-718F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6238-8974

Email addresses

  • manuel.lopes@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Education
Degree Classification
2022/03/22
Concluded
Autonomous Intelligent Agents (Título de Agregado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015
Concluded
Matematica e Informatica (Outros)
Université de Bordeaux, France
aprovado
2006
Concluded
PhD (Doutoramento)
Major in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"A developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
APROVADO
2000
Concluded
Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Tasks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2016/04/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2010/10/10 - 2016/04/01 Contracted Researcher (Research) Inria, France
2006/06/01 - 2006/11/30 Researcher (Research) Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, Finland
2000/09/01 - 2006/04/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2001/09/01 - 2006/04/30 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2016/04/01 - Current Associated Professor of Computer Science Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2009/09/29 - 2010/09/29 Lecturer in Humanoid Robotics & Intelligent Systems University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/01 - Current INFOCOS: Intelligent Feedback for Content Students
PTDC/CCI-COM/32378/2017
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2019/01 - 2021/12 iLU: Integrative Learning from Urban Data and Situational Context for City Mobility Optimization
DSAIPA/DS/0111/2018
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/01 - 2021/09 Social Learning for Intelligent CharactErs
PTDC/CCI-COM/30787/2017
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/10 - 2017/09 Semi-Autonomous 3rd Hand European Commission
2001/09 - 2004/08 Mirror Neuron based Robot Recognition European Commission

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 WSmart Route+ : Towards a Smart Waste Collection Route Planning System
2022.04180.PTDC
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/10/01 - 2022/12/31 Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems
856716
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Fernandes, Pedro M.; Lopes, Manuel; Prada, Rui. "Data Driven Agents for User Experience Testing". In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 3-18. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-51452-4_1
  2. Guerra, Carla; Melo, Francisco S.; Lopes, Manuel. "FIT: Using Feature Importance to Teach Classification Tasks to Unknown Learners". In Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 440-451. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-16474-3_36
  3. Guerra, Carla; Melo, Francisco S.; Lopes, Manuel. Corresponding author: Lopes, Manuel. "Interactive Teaching with Groups of Unknown Bayesian Learners". In Artificial Intelligence in Education, 178-182. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_32
Conference paper
  1. Lopes, Manuel; Prada, Rui. "Persona Agents from Playtraces and Emotion". Paper presented in Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2023.
  2. Guerra, Carla; Francisco S. Melo; Manuel Lopes. Corresponding author: Manuel Lopes. "Teaching Unknown Learners to Classify via Feature Importance". Paper presented in AAMAS, 2021.
    Published
  3. Martins, Ricardo; Abreu, Rui; Lopes, Manuel; Nadkarni, Joao. "Supervised Learning for Test Suit Selection in Continuous Integration". 2021.
    10.1109/icstw52544.2021.00048
  4. Fernandes, Pedro M.; Lopes, Manuel; Prada, Rui. "Agents for Automated User Experience Testing". 2021.
    10.1109/icstw52544.2021.00049
  5. Fernandes, Pedro M.; Santos, Francisco C.; Lopes, Manuel. "Adoption Dynamics and Societal Impact of AI Systems in Complex Networks". Paper presented in AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2020.
    10.1145/3375627.3375847
  6. Azeiteiro, Francisco; Lopes, Manuel. "Between Clones and Snow-Flakes: Personalization in Intelligent Tutoring Systems". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-30241-2_2
  7. Capela, Antonio; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Santos, Pedro A.; Lopes, Manuel. "An Adaptive and Transferable Dialog Management System for Social Aware Task Execution". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-30244-3_20
  8. Melo, Francisco S.; Guerra, Carla; Lopes, Manuel. "Interactive Optimal Teaching with Unknown Learners". Paper presented in International Joint Conference on; Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI-18), 2018.
    10.24963/ijcai.2018/356
  9. Busch, Baptiste; Toussaint, Marc; Lopes, Manuel. "Planning Ergonomic Sequences of Actions in Human-Robot Interaction". Paper presented in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
    10.1109/icra.2018.8462927
  10. Zhu, Xiaojin; Liu, Ji; Lopes, Manuel. "No Learner Left Behind: On the Complexity of Teaching Multiple Learners Simultaneously". Paper presented in Joint Conference on; Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17), 2017.
    10.24963/ijcai.2017/502
  11. Lopes, Manuel. "A Comparison of Automatic Teaching Strategies for Heterogeneous Student Populations". Paper presented in Educational Data Mining (EDM'16), 2016.
  12. Lopes, Manuel. "Calibration-Free BCI Based Control". Paper presented in AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'14), 2014.
    10.5555/2893873.2894062
  13. Lopes, Manuel. "Learning Multiple Behaviors from Unlabeled Demonstrations in a Latent Controller Space". Paper presented in Inter. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML'13), 2013.
  14. Lopes, Manuel; Cakmak, Maya. "Algorithmic and Human Teaching of Sequential Decision Tasks". Paper presented in AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'12), 2012.
    10.5555/2900929.2900946
  15. Lopes, Manuel; Cederbourg, Thomas; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves. "Simultaneous acquisition of task and feedback models". 2011.
    10.1109/devlrn.2011.6037359
  16. Martinez-Cantin, Ruben; Lopes, Manuel; Montesano, Luis. "Body schema acquisition through active learning". 2010.
    10.1109/robot.2010.5509406
  17. Figueira, Dario; Lopes, Manuel; Ventura, Rodrigo; Ruesch, Jonas. "From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots". 2009.
    10.1109/robot.2009.5152551
  18. Lopes, Manuel; Ruesch, Jonas; Lopes, Manuel; Bernardino, Alexandre; Hornstein, Jonas; Santos-Victor, Jose; Pfeifer, Rolf. "Multimodal Saliency-Based Bottom-Up Attention: A Framework for the Humanoid Robot iCub". Paper presented in 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008.
    10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543329
  19. Lopes, Manuel. "A Learning Framework for Generic Sensory-Motor Maps". 2007.
    10.1109/IROS.2007.4399566
  20. Lopes, Manuel. "Affordances, development and imitation". 2007.
    10.1109/DEVLRN.2007.4354054
  21. Lopes, Manuel. "Modeling Affordances using Bayesian networks". 2007.
    10.1109/IROS.2007.4399511
  22. Lopes, Manuel. "Affordance-based imitation learning in robots". 2007.
    10.1109/IROS.2007.4399517
  23. Lopes, Manuel. "Jacobian Learning Methods for Task Sequencing in Visual Servoing". 2006.
    10.1109/IROS.2006.281958
  24. Lopes, Manuel. "Learning of Sensory-Motor Maps in Redundant Robots". 2006.
    10.1109/IROS.2006.281988
  25. Lopes, Manuel. "Sound localization for humanoid robots - building audio-motor maps based on the HRTF". 2006.
    10.1109/IROS.2006.281849
  26. Lopes, Manuel. "Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head". 2006.
    10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641167
  27. Lopes, Manuel. "An anthropomorphic robot torso for imitation: design and experiments.". 2004.
    10.1109/IROS.2004.1389428
Journal article
  1. Lopes, Manuel; Ramos, Tânia R.P.. "Efficient sensor placement and online scheduling of bin collection". Computers & Operations Research 151 (2023): 106113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2022.106113.
    10.1016/j.cor.2022.106113
  2. de Morais, Carolina Soares; Ramos, Tânia Rodrigues Pereira; Lopes, Manuel; Barbosa-Póvoa, Ana Paula. "A data-driven optimization approach to plan smart waste collection operations". International Transactions in Operational Research (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/itor.13235.
    10.1111/itor.13235
  3. Lopes, Manuel; Melo, Francisco. "Teaching Multiple Inverse Reinforcement Learners". Frontiers Artificial Intelligence (2021): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2021.625183/.
    Open access • In press
  4. Fernandes, Pedro M.; Santos, Francisco C.; Lopes, Manuel. "Norms for beneficial A.I.: A computational analysis of the societal value alignment problem". AI Communications 33 3-6 (2020): 155-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/aic-201502.
    10.3233/aic-201502
  5. Neto, Maria Leonor; Antunes, Marília; Lopes, Manuel; Ferreira, Duarte; Rilling, James; Prata, Diana. "Oxytocin and vasopressin modulation of prisoner’s dilemma strategies". Journal of Psychopharmacology 34 8 (2020): 891-900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881120913145.
    10.1177/0269881120913145
  6. Munzer, Thibaut; Toussaint, Marc; Lopes, Manuel. "Efficient behavior learning in human–robot collaboration". Autonomous Robots 42 5 (2017): 1103-1115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10514-017-9674-5.
    10.1007/s10514-017-9674-5
  7. Foley, Nicholas C.; Kelly, Simon P.; Mhatre, Himanshu; Lopes, Manuel; Gottlieb, Jacqueline. "Parietal neurons encode expected gains in instrumental information". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 16 (2017): E3315-E3323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613844114.
    10.1073/pnas.1613844114
  8. Busch, Baptiste; Grizou, Jonathan; Lopes, Manuel; Stulp, Freek. "Learning Legible Motion from Human–Robot Interactions". International Journal of Social Robotics 9 5 (2017): 765-779. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0400-4.
    10.1007/s12369-017-0400-4
  9. Daddaoua, Nabil; Lopes, Manuel; Gottlieb, Jacqueline. "Intrinsically motivated oculomotor exploration guided by uncertainty reduction and conditioned reinforcement in non-human primates". Scientific Reports 6 1 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20202.
    10.1038/srep20202
  10. Iturrate, Iñaki; Grizou, Jonathan; Omedes, Jason; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves; Lopes, Manuel; Montesano, Luis. "Exploiting Task Constraints for Self-Calibrated Brain-Machine Interface Control Using Error-Related Potentials". PLOS ONE 10 7 (2015): e0131491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131491.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0131491
  11. Lopes, Manuel; Clement, Benjamin; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves. "Multi-Armed Bandits for Intelligent Tutoring Systems". Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM) 7 2 (2015): https://jedm.educationaldatamining.org/index.php/JEDM/article/view/JEDM111.
  12. Lopes, Manuel. "Active Learning for Autonomous Intelligent Agents: Exploration, Curiosity, and Interaction". arXiv:1403.1497 [cs.AI] (2014): http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1497.
  13. Gottlieb, Jacqueline; Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves; Lopes, Manuel; Baranes, Adrien. "Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms". Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17 11 (2013): 585-593. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.09.001.
    10.1016/j.tics.2013.09.001
  14. Lopes, Manuel. "Multi-class Generalized Binary Search for Active Inverse Reinforcement Learning". (2013): http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5488.
  15. Montesano, Luis; Lopes, Manuel. "Active learning of visual descriptors for grasping using non-parametric smoothed beta distributions". Robotics and Autonomous Systems 60 3 (2012): 452-462. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2011.07.013.
    10.1016/j.robot.2011.07.013
  16. Metta, Giorgio; Natale, Lorenzo; Nori, Francesco; Sandini, Giulio; Vernon, David; Fadiga, Luciano; von Hofsten, Claes; et al. "The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development". Neural Networks 23 8-9 (2010): 1125-1134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2010.08.010.
    10.1016/j.neunet.2010.08.010
  17. Lopes, Manuel. "Active learning and intrinsically motivated exploration in robots: Advances and challenges". IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 2 (2010): 65-69.
    10.1109/TAMD.2010.2052419
  18. Lopes, Manuel; Melo, Francisco S.; Kenward, Ben; Santos-Victor, José. "A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms". Adaptive Behavior 17 6 (2009): 467-483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712309342757.
    10.1177/1059712309342757
  19. Montesano, Luis; Lopes, Manuel; Bernardino, Alexandre; Santos-Victor, JosÉ. "Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory--Motor Coordination to Imitation". IEEE Transactions on Robotics 24 1 (2008): 15-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tro.2007.914848.
    10.1109/tro.2007.914848
  20. Lopes, Manuel; Santos-Victor, Jos. "A Developmental Roadmap for Learning by Imitation in Robots". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics) 37 2 (2007): 308-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tsmcb.2006.886949.
    10.1109/tsmcb.2006.886949
  21. Lopes, Manuel. "Visual Learning by Imitation With Motor Representations". IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics 35 3 (2005):
    10.1109/TSMCB.2005.846654
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/04 - Current Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Domains
Co-supervisor
2020 - Current Optimization of User Experience in Interactive Systems
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2024/03/10 Interactive Machine Teaching with Unknown Human Learners
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2018 Optimization techniques for an ergonomic human-robot interaction
Supervisor of Baptiste Busch
Université de Bordeaux, France
2014 - 2017 Représentations relationnelles et apprentissage interactif pour l'apprentissage efficace du comportement coopératif
Supervisor
Université de Bordeaux, France
2011 - 2014 Apprentissage simultané d'une tâche nouvelle et de l'interprétation de signaux sociaux d'un humain en robotique
Supervisor of Jonathan Grizou
Université de Bordeaux, France

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Master in Computer Science (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 - 2022 Inteligência Artificial (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - Current Evaluator for the European Commission ICT projects
Evaluator
Distinctions

Other distinction

2014 Prize of Research Excellence
Inria, France
2009 Ciência 2008 Research Contract
2006 "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, France
2001 Bolsa de Doutoramento
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal