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Luis Paulo Peixoto dos Santos. Concluiu o(a) Doutoramento em Doutoramento em Informática em 2001 pelo(a) Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia e Licenciatura em Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática em 1990 pelo(a) Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia. É Professor Auxiliar no(a) Universidade do Minho, Investigador no(a) International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory e Investigador no(a) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência. Publicou 28 artigos em revistas especializadas. Possui 3 capítulo(s) de livros e 4 livro(s). Orientou 6 tese(s) de doutoramento e coorientou 1. Orientou 5 dissertação(ões) de mestrado. Recebeu 5 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Investigador em 1 projeto(s) e Investigador responsável em 2 projeto(s). Atua nas áreas de Computação Gráfica, Computação Paralela e Computação Quântica.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Luis Paulo Peixoto dos Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Luis Paulo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4B18-3424-EBF0
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4466-1129

Addresses

  • Universidade do Minho . Dep. de Informática Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2001
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Application Level RunTime Load Management: A Bayesian Approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
1994
Concluded
 Provas de Aptidão Pedagogica e Capacidade Cientifica (Outros)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
 Muito Bom
1990
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/07 - Current Researcher (Research) International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
2016/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/01 - 2020/05 Visiting Researcher (Research) Texas Advanced Computing Center, United States
Texas Advanced Computing Center, United States
2017/06/01 - 2017/07/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Texas Advanced Computing Center, United States
2013/01/04 - 2013/05/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Warwick, United Kingdom
WMG, United Kingdom
2006 - 2013 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011/06/01 - 2011/06/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Inria Centre de Recherche Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France
2010/06/01 - 2010/07/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Inria Centre de Recherche Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France
2008/06/01 - 2008/07/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Inria Centre de Recherche Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France
2003/03/01 - 2003/07/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Bristol Queens School of Engineering, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/08 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2001/06/01 - 2024/07 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1994/09/01 - 2001/06/01 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
1990/11/01 - 1994/09/01 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/11/06 - 2015/11/01 Diretor-Adjunto do Mestrado em Engenharia Informática Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2013/10/01 Diretor Adjunto da Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2010/10/01 - 2012/11/01 Diretor-Adjunto do Departamento de Informática, Escola de Engenharia Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011/04/01 - 2012/10/01 Diretor do Programa Doutoral em Informática Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2010/05 - 2012/10 Portability and Performance in Heterogeneous Many Core Systems
100035
Provided by PTCRIS: 100035
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/06 - 2012/05 Parallel Programming Refinements for Irregular Applications
Provided by PTCRIS: 83971
83971
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/01 - 2011/07 IGIDE-Interactive Global illumination within Dynamic Environments
65965
Provided by PTCRIS: 65965
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Marques, R.; Bouville, C.; Santos, L.P.; Bouatouch, K.. Efficient quadrature rules for illumination integrals: From quasi monte carlo to bayesian monte carlo. 2015.
    10.2200/S00649ED1V01Y201505CGR019
Book chapter
  1. Mariano, Artur; Cabeleira, Filipe; Santos, Luís Paulo; Falcão, Gabriel. "Optimized Voronoi-Based Algorithms for Parallel Shortest Vector Computation". In Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing Environments, 85-122. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022.
    Published • 10.1201/9781003155799-4
  2. Roberto Ribeiro; Luís Paulo Santos; João Miguel Nóbrega. "nSharma: Numerical Simulation Heterogeneity Aware Runtime Manager for OpenFOAM". 429-443. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-93698-7_33
  3. Barbosa, L.S.; Santos, L.P.. "Networks of universities as a tool for GCIO education". 2017.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-64677-0_10
  4. Unzueta, L.; Pimenta, Waldir; Goenetxea, J.; Santos, Luis Paulo; Dornaika, F.. "Efficient Deformable 3D Face Model Fitting to Monocular Images". In Advances in Face Image Analysis: Theory and Applications, 143-168. Bentham eBooks, 2015.
    Published
  5. Santos, L.P.; Castro, V.; Proença, A.. "Evaluation of the communication performance on a parallel processing system". In Recent Advances In Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Springer, 1997.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Sequeira, André; Santos, Luis Paulo; Barbosa, Luís Soares; Sequeira, A.; Santos, L.P.; Barbosa, L.S.. "Generalised Quantum Tree Search". Paper presented in Second International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2021), 2021.
    Published • 10.1109/Q-SE52541.2021.00015
  2. João Barbosa; Luís Paulo Santos; Don Fussell; Paul Navratl; Barbosa, J.; Navratil, P.; Paulo Santos, L.; Fussell, D.. Corresponding author: João Barbosa. "LOOM: Interweaving tightly coupled visualization and numeric simulation framework". Paper presented in Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV 2021), 2021.
    Published • 10.1145/3490138.3490139
  3. Marques, R.; Bouville, C.; Santos, L.P.; Bouatouch, K.. "Two-level adaptive sampling for illumination integrals using Bayesian Monte Carlo". 2020.
    10.2312/egsh.20161016
  4. Alves, Carolina; Santos, Luis Paulo; Bashford-Rogers, Thomas. "A Quantum Algorithm for Ray Casting using an Orthographic Camera". Paper presented in Int. Conference on Graphics and Interaction 2019, Faro, 2019.
    10.1109/icgi47575.2019.8955061
  5. Santos, L.P.; Barbosa, L.N.; Bessa, D.A.; Martins, L.P.; Barbosa, L.S.. "Communities of practice as a tool to support the GCIO function". 2018.
    10.1145/3209415.3209507
  6. Ribeiro, R.; Santos, L.P.; Nobrega, J.M.. "Run-time heterogeneous-aware power-adaptive scheduling in openfoam". 2018.
    10.1109/HPCS.2018.00070
  7. Oliveira, A.; Perdigao, C.; Santos, L.P.; Proenca, A.. "Exploring heterogeneous computing with advanced path tracing algorithms". 2017.
    10.1109/EPCGI.2016.7851185
  8. Debattista, K.; Dickey, M.; Proença, A.; Santos, L.P.. "VS-GAMES 2010 preface". 2010.
  9. Ferreira, V.; Santos, L.P.; Simoes, R.; Franzen, M.; Ghouati, O.O.. "Estimating local thickness for finite element analysis". 2010.
  10. Santos, L.P.; Valentim, S.; Fernandes, A.R.. "Parallel progressive precomputed radiance transfer". 2006.
    10.1145/2602161.2602165
  11. Trystram, D.; Bender, M.; Schwiegelshohn, U.; Santos, L.P.. "Topic 3 - Scheduling and Load-Balancing". 2005.
  12. Proenca, A.; Santos, L. P.; Santos, L.P.; Prenca, A.. "A Bayesian RunTime load manager on a shared cluster". Paper presented in Scheduling and Load Balancing on Clusters (SLAB'2001), 2001.
    Published • 10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923259
Journal article
  1. Mafalda Ramôa; Luis Paulo Santos; Nicholas J Mayhall; Edwin Barnes; Sophia E Economou. "Reducing measurement costs by recycling the Hessian in adaptive variational quantum algorithms". Quantum Science and Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ad904e.
    10.1088/2058-9565/ad904e
  2. Coelho, Rodrigo; Sequeira, André; Paulo Santos, Luís. "VQC-based reinforcement learning with data re-uploading: performance and trainability". Quantum Machine Intelligence 6 2 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42484-024-00190-z.
    10.1007/s42484-024-00190-z
  3. Sequeira, André; Paulo Santos, Luis; Soares Barbosa, Luis. "Trainability issues in quantum policy gradients". Machine Learning: Science and Technology 5 3 (2024): 035037. https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ad6830.
    10.1088/2632-2153/ad6830
  4. André Sequeira; Luis Paulo Santos; Luis Soares Barbosa. "On Quantum Natural Policy Gradients". IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (2024): https://doi.org/10.1109/TQE.2024.3418094.
    10.1109/TQE.2024.3418094
  5. Santos, Luís Paulo; Bashford-Rogers, Thomas; Barbosa, João; Navrátil, Paul. "Towards Quantum Ray Tracing". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2024): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3386103.
    10.1109/tvcg.2024.3386103
  6. André Sequeira; Luis Paulo Santos; Luis Soares Barbosa. "Policy gradients using variational quantum circuits". Quantum Machine Intelligence (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42484-023-00101-8.
    10.1007/s42484-023-00101-8
  7. Arnau Colom; Ricardo Marques; Luís Paulo Santos. "Interactive VPL-based global illumination on the GPU using fuzzy clustering". Computers & Graphics (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2022.09.008.
    10.1016/j.cag.2022.09.008
  8. Thomas Bashford-Rogers; Luís Paulo Santos; Demetris Marnerides; Kurt Debattista. "Ensemble Metropolis Light Transport". ACM Transactions on Graphics 41 1 (2022): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472294.
    10.1145/3472294
  9. Andre Sequeira; Luis Paulo Santos; Luis Soares Barbosa. "Quantum Tree-Based Planning". IEEE Access 9 (2021): 125416-125427. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3110652.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3110652
  10. Falcao, Gabriel; Cabeleira, Filipe; Mariano, Artur; Paulo Santos, Luis. "Heterogeneous Implementation of a Voronoi Cell-Based SVP Solver". IEEE Access 7 (2019): 127012-127023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2939142.
    10.1109/access.2019.2939142
  11. Ribeiro, R.; Barbosa, J.; Santos, L.P.. "A framework for efficient execution of data parallel irregular applications on heterogeneous systems". Parallel Processing Letters 25 2 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84934271852&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1142/S0129626415500048
  12. ¿urikovic, R.; Paulo Santos, L.. "Foreword to the Special Section on the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2015 (SCCG'2015)". Computers and Graphics (Pergamon) 53 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84947869813&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cag.2015.05.030
  13. Ferreira, V.; Santos, L.P.; Franzen, M.; Ghouati, O.O.; Simoes, R.. "Improving FEM crash simulation accuracy through local thickness estimation based on CAD data". Advances in Engineering Software 71 (2014): 52-62. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896954921&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.advengsoft.2014.02.003
  14. Unzueta, L.; Pimenta, W.; Goenetxea, J.; Santos, L.P.; Dornaika, F.. "Efficient generic face model fitting to images and videos". Image and Vision Computing 32 5 (2014): 321-334. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84897041579&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.imavis.2014.02.006
  15. Paulo Santos, L.; Debattista, K.. "Guest editorial - High dynamic range imaging". Computers and Graphics (Pergamon) (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883736498&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cag.2013.08.001
  16. Silva, N.; Paulo Santos, L.. "Interactive high fidelity visualization of complex materials on the GPU". Computers and Graphics (Pergamon) 37 7 (2013): 809-819. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880916085&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cag.2013.06.006
  17. Marques, R.; Bouville, C.; Ribardiere, M.; Santos, L.P.; Bouatouch, K.. "A spherical gaussian framework for bayesian monte carlo rendering of glossy surfaces". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 19 10 (2013): 1619-1632. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883111145&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TVCG.2013.79
  18. Alves, A.; Rufino, J.; Pina, A.; Santos, L.P.. "clOpenCL - Supporting distributed heterogeneous computing in HPC clusters". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 7640 LNCS (2013): 112-122. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874418887&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-36949-0_14
  19. Marques, R.; Bouville, C.; Ribardière, M.; Santos, L.P.; Bouatouch, K.. "Spherical fibonacci point sets for illumination integrals". Computer Graphics Forum 32 8 (2013): 134-143. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890953225&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/cgf.12190
  20. Pimenta, W.; Santos, L.P.. "A comprehensive taxonomy for three-dimensional displays". 20th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, WSCG 2012 - Conference Proceedings PART 1 (2012): 139-146. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884182090&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  21. Fernandes, J.M.; van Hattum-Janssen, N.; Ribeiro, A.N.; Fonte, V.; Santos, L.P.; Sousa, P.. "An integrated approach to develop professional and technical skills for informatics engineering students". European Journal of Engineering Education 37 2 (2012): 167-177. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862114519&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/03043797.2012.666517
  22. Silva, N.; Santos, L.P.; Fussell, D.. "Real-time visualization of a sparse parametric mixture model for BTF rendering". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 7431 LNCS PART 1 (2012): 719-728. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866700995&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-33179-4_68
  23. Chalmers, A.; Mudge, M.; Santos, L.P.. "Computers & graphics journal special section on cultural heritage". Computers and Graphics (Pergamon) 36 1 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84856187277&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cag.2011.11.006
  24. Debattista, K.; Dubla, P.; Santos, L.; Chalmers, A.. "Wait-free shared-memory irradiance caching". IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 31 5 (2011): 66-78. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052323673&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/MCG.2010.80
  25. Chalmers, A.; Mudge, M.; Paulo Santos, L.. "Special section on cultural heritage". Computers and Graphics (Pergamon) 35 4 (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960892089&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cag.2011.03.041
  26. Debattista, K.; Proenca, A. J.; Santos, L. P.. "Preface and biographic notes for the special issue on graphics for serious games". Computers & Graphics-Uk 34 6 (2010): 641-642.
    10.1016/j.cag.2010.09.016
  27. Ferreira, V.; Santos, L.P.; Franzen, M.; Ghouati, O.O.; Sim~oes, R.. "Estimating local part thickness in midplane meshes for finite element analysis". International Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 5 1 (2010): 69-76. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78650790872&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  28. Debattista, K.; Dubla, P.; Banterle, F.; Santos, L.P.; Chalmers, A.. "Instant caching for interactive global illumination". Computer Graphics Forum 28 8 (2009): 2216-2228. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-72249114882&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01435.x
  29. Paulo Santos, L.; Reiners, D.; Favre, J.. "Parallel Graphics and Visualization". Computers and Graphics (Pergamon) 32 1 (2008): 1-2. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-43049111441&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cag.2007.12.004
  30. Santo, L.P.; Raffin, B.; Heirich, A.. "Parallel graphics and visualization". Parallel Computing 33 6 (2007): 359-360. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34248544951&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.parco.2007.04.001
  31. Oliveira, A.; Santos, L.P.; Proença, A.. "Refinement criteria for high fidelity interactive walkthroughs". Proceedings - GRAPHITE 2006: 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia (2006): 453-458. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34547178348&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/1174429.1174505
  32. Santos, L.P.. "2006 Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization". Computer Graphics Forum 25 4 (2006): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33845406632&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.01002.x
  33. Chalmers, A.; Debattista, K.; Dos Santos, L.P.. "Selective rendering: Computing only what you see". Proceedings - GRAPHITE 2006: 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia (2006): 9-18. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34547224992&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/1174429.1174431
  34. Debattista, K.; Sundstedt, V.; Santos, L.P.; Chalmers, A.. "Selective component-based rendering". Proceedings - GRAPHITE 2005 - 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia (2005): 13-22. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33745872954&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/1101389.1101393
  35. Santos, L.P.; Proenca, A.. "Scheduling under conditions of uncertainty: A bayesian approach". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 3149 (2004): 222-229. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-35048873914&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  36. Ledda, P.; Santos, L.P.; Chalmers, A.. "A local model of eye adaptation for high dynamic range images". ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Visualisation in Africa (2004): 151-160. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-29144463600&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Journal issue
  1. "Foreword to the special section on Recent Advances in Graphics and Interaction". Computers & Graphics 102 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2021.12.006.
    10.1016/j.cag.2021.12.006
Preprint
  1. Ramôa, Mafalda; Sophia E. Economou; Edwin Barnes; Nicholas J. Mayhall; Santos, Luis Paulo. Corresponding author: Ramôa, Mafalda. "Reducing measurement costs by recycling the Hessian in adaptive variational quantum algorithms". 2024.

Other

Other output
  1. VARIATIONAL QUANTUM POLICY GRADIENTS WITH AN APPLICATION TO QUANTUM CONTROL. 2022. Sequeira, A.; Santos, L.P.; Barbosa, L.S.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85127820309&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  2. TOWARDS QUANTUM RAY TRACING. 2022. Santos, L.P.; Bashford-Rogers, T.; Barbosa, J.; Navrátil, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85129857314&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Quantum algorithms for optimization in the NISQ context
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Informática (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 - Current Quantum algorithms for amplitude estimation in the NISQ context
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Informática (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - Current Quantum Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Algorithms, Applications
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Informática (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - Current Contextuality and Quantum advantage in the NISQ settings
Co-supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Informática (MAPi) (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011 - Current Hardware Aware Scheduling in Heterogeneous Environments
Supervisor
 Programa Doutral em Informática - MAPi (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - 2022/02/11 Quantum Reinforcement Learning: a heuristic approach to solve deterministic MDPs
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 - 2021/01/14 Quantum-enhanced Reinforcement Learning
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
2016 - 2020 Sparse Reconstruction of Multidimensional Light Transport Signals
Supervisor of César Perdigão
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018 - 2019/12/04 A Quantum Algorithm for Ray Casting using an Ortographic Camera
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017 - 2019/05/29 Mobile Ray Tracing
Supervisor of Tiago Manuel da Silva Santos
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master)
2015 - 2019 Numerical Simulations on Heterogeneous Systems: dynamic workload and power management
Supervisor of Roberto Ribeiro
 Programa Doutoral em Informática (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014 - 2015/11/30 Integração do OptiX no Maya: Síntese Interativa de Imagens de Alta Qualidade
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2009 - 2013 Bayesian Monte Carlo Integration for Global Illumination
Co-supervisor of Ricardo Marques
Université de Rennes 1 - Campus de Beaulieu, France

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - Current Grupo Português de Computação Gráfica Presidente da Direcção
Distinctions

Award

2019 Best Paper Award

Other distinction

2014 Prémio José Luís Encarnação; Ricardo Marques, Luís Paulo Santos; A Spherical Gaussian Framework for Bayesian Monte Carlo Rendering of Glossy Surfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol 19(10), pp. 1619-1632, Oct. 2013
2013 Prémio José Luís Encarnação; Atribuído a Nuno Silva, Luís Paulo Santos; “Interactive High Fidelity Visualization of Complex Materials on the GPU”; Elsevier Computers & Graphics, vol. 37(7), pp. 809-819, November 2013
2011 Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2011 – 2nd MsC projects, supervision of Waldir Pimenta, project entitled “Face detection, tracking and recognition through computer vision for video-surveillance applications”, october, 2011
2009 3rd Prize: "A vida num Minuto"