Renato Eduardo Silva Panda (661A-31CC-8D19)

Curriculum Vitae

Renato Eduardo Silva Panda

Renato Panda is an Auxiliary Researcher (non-tenured) at the Smarter Cities Research Center (Ci2), Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT), where he also lectures in Informatics Engineering. His main research line is related to information retrieval, specifically Music Emotion Recognition (MER), with more than 20 publications in the field, including three highly impactful papers in IEEE Transactions of Affective Computing over the last few years. Since concluding his doctoral thesis, honored with two Ph.D. awards, he has actively collaborated with other renowned R&D Units, such as the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), where he currently co-supervises two Ph.D. students and several MSc and grant holders. He is part of two ongoing FCT R&D Projects (MERGE and Brainplayback, with an application acceptance rate of <10%). In addition to his main line, he collaborates on other applied research problems, mainly dealing with data analysis, machine learning, and software engineering. Examples include two concluded Compete/P2020 projects (VitaSenior and MovTour), where he mentored grand holders, or his recent participation in the COST Action Mobilise CA17106, dealing with machine learning on images of natural history collections. He is also one of the Open Science managers at the Ci2.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Renato Eduardo Silva Panda

Citation names

Panda, Renato

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 661A-31CC-8D19
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2539-5590
Google Scholar ID: WT5afVUAAAAJ
Researcher Id: AAK-7581-2020
Scopus Author Id: 55354413900

Email addresses

renato.panda@ipt.pt (Professional)
panda@dei.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Ci2 - Smart Cities Research Center, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Quinta do Contador, Estrada da Serra, 2300-313, Tomar, Tomar, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://renatopanda.github.io (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/05/08 Concluded	Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Emotion-based Analysis and Classification of Audio Music" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
2010 Concluded	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Automatic Mood Tracking in Audio Music" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16
2008 Concluded	Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	13

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/02/01 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Smart Cities Research Center, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2010/05 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/09/02 - 2020/07/31	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal

2015 - 2019	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal

2011 - 2012	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal

2010/10 - 2010/10	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique, Mozambique

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013/03 - 2017/02	PhD Fellowship Holder	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
2013/09 - 2013/09	Visiting PhD Student	Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2010/05 - 2012/12	Research Fellowship Holder	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2013/03/01 - 2017/02/28	Emotion-based Analysis and Classification of Audio Music SFRH/BD/91523/2012 36023DFA PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Music Emotion Recognition - Next Generation PTDC/CCI-COM/3171/2021 10.54499/PTDC/CCI-COM/3171/2021 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/02/01 - 2024/06/30	Ci2/SmartBASE - Backbone And Support Environment for Smart Projects UIDB/05567/2020/00 Researcher Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Smart Cities Research Center, Portugal	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Smart Cities Research Center Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/12/31	Playback the music of the brain - decoding emotions elicited by musical sounds in the human brain EXPL/PSI-GER/0948/2021 10.54499/EXPL/PSI-GER/0948/2021 171767PRJ Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	CENTRO DE INFORMÁTICA E SISTEMAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA UID/CEC/00326/2019 154639UID Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017/09 - 2019/03	VITASENIOR-MT: Senior healthcare assistance in Medio Tejo CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-023659 Researcher Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal	Concluded
2017 - 2019	MovTour: Turismo e Cultura com e para a Sociedade POCI/01/0145/FEDER-024068 Supervisor Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Concluded
2010 - 2013	MOODetector: A System for Mood-based Classification and Retrieval of Audio Music PTDC/EIA-EIA/102185/2008 102185PRJ Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Guedes, Ana Gabriela; Sayal, Alexandre; Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro; Direito, Bruno. "A Pattern Recognition Framework to Investigate the Neural Correlates of Music". Paper presented in 29th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD 2023), Coimbra, 2023. Published Barros, Manuel; Pinho, Henrique; Correia, Pedro; Panda, Renato; Silva, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Barros, Manuel. "O papel da inovação tecnológica e da ciência aberta no desenvolvimento sustentável das cidades e regiões - Um caso prático". Paper presented in XXIII Encontro da REALP - Ciências da Sustentabilidade em Língua Portuguesa, Tomar, 2022. Published Pinho, Henrique; Oliveira, Luís Miguel Lopes de; Paulo Coelho; Correia, Pedro; Panda, Renato. Corresponding author: Pinho, Henrique. "Inteligência para a Sustentabilidade das Cidades". Paper presented in XXIII Encontro da REALP - Ciências da Sustentabilidade em Língua Portuguesa, Tomar, 2022. Published
Conference paper	Correia, Pedro; Gomes, Marcela; Martins, Gabriel; Panda, Renato. Corresponding author: Correia, Pedro. "Low Cost LoRaWAN Image Acquisition System for Low Rate Internet of Things Applications". Paper presented in 2022 2nd International Conference on New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTIC), Mila, 2022. Published • 10.1109/ntic55069.2022.10100422 Panda, Renato; Redinho, Hugo; Gonçalves, Carolina; Malheiro, Ricardo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "How Does the Spotify API Compare to the Music Emotion Recognition State-of-the-Art?". Paper presented in 18th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2021), 2021. Published • 10.5281/zenodo.5045099 Mendes, Diogo; Panda, Renato; Dias, Pedro; Jorge, Dário; António, Ricardo; Oliveira, Luís Miguel Lopes de; Pires, Gabriel. "VITASENIOR-MT: A distributed and scalable cloud-based telehealth solution". Paper presented in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Limerick, 2019. Published • 10.1109/WF-IoT.2019.8767184 Panda, Renato; Malheiro, Ricardo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Musical Texture and Expressivity Features for Music Emotion Recognition". Paper presented in 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference – ISMIR 2018, Paris, 2018. Published • 10.5281/zenodo.1492430 Pires, Gabriel; Correia, Pedro; Jorge, Dário; Mendes, Diogo; Gomes, Nelson; Dias, Pedro; Ferreira, Pedro; et al. "VITASENIOR-MT: a telehealth solution for the elderly focused on the interaction with TV". Paper presented in Healthcom 2018, Ostrava, 2018. Published • 10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531126 Malheiro, Ricardo; Panda, Renato; Gomes, Paulo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Bi-Modal Music Emotion Recognition: Novel Lyrical Features and Dataset". Paper presented in 9th International Workshop on Music and Machine Learning - MML 2016 - in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML/PKDD 2016, Riva del Garda, 2016. Published Malheiro, Ricardo; Panda, Renato; Gomes, Paulo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Classification and regression of music lyrics: Emotionally-significant features". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - KDIR 2016, Porto, 2016. Published • 10.5220/0006037400450055 Panda, Renato; Rocha, Bruno; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Dimensional Music Emotion Recognition: Combining Standard and Melodic Audio Features". Paper presented in 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research - CMMR 2013, Marseille, 2013. Published • 10.6084/m9.figshare.1181786 Rocha, Bruno; Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Music Emotion Recognition: The Importance of Melodic Features". Paper presented in 6th International Workshop on Music and Machine Learning - MML 2013 - in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML/PKDD 2013, Prague, 2013. Published • 10.6084/m9.figshare.1181788.v1 Panda, Renato; Malheiro, Ricardo; Rocha, Bruno; Oliveira, António Pedro; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Multi-Modal Music Emotion Recognition: A New Dataset, Methodology and Comparative Analysis". Paper presented in CMMR 2013, Marseille, 2013. Published • 10.6084/m9.figshare.1181787 Malheiro, Ricardo; Panda, Renato; Gomes, Paulo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Music Emotion Recognition from Lyrics: A Comparative Study". Paper presented in 6th International Workshop on Music and Machine Learning - MML 2013 - in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML/PKDD 2013, Prague, 2013. Published Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro; Panda, Renato; Paiva, R.P.. "MIREX 2012: Mood Classification Tasks Submission". Paper presented in MIREX/ISMIR 2012, Porto, 2012. Published Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Music Emotion Classification: Analysis of a Classifier Ensemble Approach". Paper presented in 5th International Workshop on Music and Machine Learning - MML 2012 - in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Machine Learning - ICML 2012, Edinburgh, 2012. Published Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Music Emotion Classification: Dataset Acquisition and Comparative Analysis". Paper presented in 15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx 2012), York, 2012. Published Cardoso, Luís; Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "MOODetector: A Prototype Software Tool for Mood-based Playlist Generation". Paper presented in 3º Simpósio de Informática - INForum 2011, Coimbra, 2011. Published Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Using Support Vector Machines for Automatic Mood Tracking in Audio Music". Paper presented in 130th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2011 (AES 130), London, 2011. Published Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Automatic Creation of Mood Playlists in the Thayer Plane: A Methodology and a Comparative Study". Paper presented in 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2011), Padova, 2011. Published • 10.5281/zenodo.849887
Conference poster	Pires, Gabriel; Lopes, Ana; Manso, António Manuel Rodrigues; Jorge, Dário; Mendes, Diogo; Almeida, Luis; Oliveira, Luís Miguel Lopes de; et al. "VITASENIOR-MT: Architecture of a Telehealth Solution". Paper presented in Conferência Gestão & Tecnologi@ - Criação de Valor em Saúde, 2018.
Journal article	Louro, Pedro; Redinho, Hugo; Malheiro, Ricardo; Paiva, Rui Pedro; Panda, Renato. "A Comparison Study of Deep Learning Methodologies for Music Emotion Recognition". Sensors 24 7 (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/7/2201. Open access • 10.3390/s24072201 Groom, Quentin; Dillen, Mathias; Addink, Wouter; Ariño, Arturo H.; Bölling, Christian; Bonnet, Pierre; Cecchi, Lorenzo; et al. "Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections". Biodiversity Data Journal 11 (2023): https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/109439/. Published • 10.3897/bdj.11.e109439 Pires, Gabriel; Lopes, Ana; Correia, Pedro; Almeida, Luis; Oliveira, Luís Miguel Lopes de; Panda, Renato; Jorge, Dario; et al. "Usability of a telehealth solution based on TV interaction for the elderly: the VITASENIOR-MT case study". Universal Access in the Information Society (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00859-3. Published • 10.1007/s10209-021-00859-3 Panda, Renato; Malheiro, Ricardo Manuel; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Audio Features for Music Emotion Recognition: a Survey". IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2020): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2020.3032373. Published • 10.1109/taffc.2020.3032373 Panda, Renato; Malheiro, R.; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Novel Audio Features for Music Emotion Recognition". IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 11 4 (2020): 614-626. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/94071. Published • 10.1109/taffc.2018.2820691 Malheiro, Ricardo; Panda, Renato; Gomes, Paulo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Emotionally-Relevant Features for Classification and Regression of Music Lyrics". IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 9 2 (2018): 240-254. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/94353. Published • 10.1109/taffc.2016.2598569 Panda, Renato; Rocha, Bruno; Paiva, Rui Pedro. "Music Emotion Recognition with Standard and Melodic Audio Features". Applied Artificial Intelligence 29 4 (2015): 313-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2015.1016389. Published • 10.1080/08839514.2015.1016389
Preprint	Alexandre Sayal; Ana Gabriela Guedes; Inês Almeida; Daniela Jardim Pereira; César Lima; Panda, Renato; Rui Pedro Paiva; et al. "Decoding Music-Evoked Valence and Arousal: Unraveling the Neural Correlates of Naturalistic Music Characteristics through fMRI". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.27.582309. 10.1101/2024.02.27.582309
Thesis / Dissertation	Panda, Renato; Panda, Renato Eduardo Silva. "Emotion-based Analysis and Classification of Audio Music". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87618. Panda, Renato. "Automatic Mood Tracking in Audio Music". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, 2010.

Other

Dataset

Panda, Renato; Malheiro, Ricardo; Paiva, Rui Pedro. 4Q audio emotion dataset (Russell's model) (2018). http://mir.dei.uc.pt/downloads.html. 2018.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current	Feature Engineering and Learning for Audio-Based Music Emotion Variation Detection Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	Securing Heritage Spaces: A Machine Learning-Powered Dashboard for Real-time Visitor Management Co-supervisor of Gonçalo António Nunes de Sousa	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2022/09 - Current	Feature Engineering and Learning for Audio-based Music Emotion Recognition Co-supervisor of Pedro Miguel Lima Louro	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09 - Current	Music Emotion Recognition in Song Lyrics Co-supervisor of Ricardo Correia Nascimento dos Santos	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022/09/15	MERGE Audio 2.0 Co-supervisor of Pedro Miguel Lima Louro	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/11/10	MERGE Audio: Audio Classification with Deep Learning Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/11	Orchestration of music emotion recognition services - automating deployment, scaling and management Supervisor	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/09	MER: Estudo e restruturação do sistema de reconhecimento emocional em música áudio usando o YouTube Supervisor	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Desenvolvimento de infraestrutura de software do projeto Vitasenior Supervisor of Diogo dos Santos Mendes	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Microsserviços para reconhecimento de emoção em música Supervisor of Ricardo Marques António	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Portal para interação com serviços de reconhecimento emocional em música Supervisor of Tiago Areias / Tiago António	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2018 - 2019	MOVIDA Supervisor of Diogo Martins / Hugo Costa	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2018 - 2019	ExpensesOCR Supervisor of Hélder Lopes / Edgar Oliveira	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Recruitment Chatbot Supervisor of Andreia Ferreira / André Santos	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Comparação do desempenho de diferentes abordagens para o desenvolvimento de aplicações móveis Co-supervisor of Ricardo Santos Anacleto	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Movtour Co-supervisor of Pedro André Casimiro Nunes	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Analytics applied to tourism Co-supervisor of Miguel Filipe Redol Cotralha Inácio Coelho	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Agent Based Vulnerability Assessment Co-supervisor of Alexandre Sequeira / Ricardo Pinto	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Thomar Co-supervisor of Pedro Nunes / Miguel Coelho	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/02/15 - 2024/02/15	Multidisciplinary round table discussion uniting researchers across various fields to explore diverse perspectives on music-related projects and research. Round table	Música na UC: Perspectivas e Intersecções Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
2021/09/08 - 2021/09/10	Participation, with presentation of ML approaches, on the Workshop on Machine Learning on Images of Natural History Collections, part of the COST Action Mobilise – CA17106. Workshop	COST Action Mobilise CA17106 - Workshop on Machine Learning on Images of Natural History Collections Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2019 - Current	Testing Portugal
2023/09/10 - 2023/09/13	Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023)	MIT Media Lab, Cambridge
2023/08/30 - 2023/09/01	AudioMostly 2023 - Embodied Sound in the Virtual	Edinburgh Napier University
2022/10/18 - 2022/10/21	10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022)	Nara, Japan
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/03	AudioMostly 2021 – Sonic experiences in the era of the Internet of Sounds	University of Trento
2015 - 2015	International Workshop on Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia (ASM2015), held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2015
2015 - 2015	European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Cloud Computing and Virtualization	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Mestrado)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2016 - Current	Software Engineering	Engenharia Informática - Internet das Coisas (Mestrado)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2016 - 2020	Programming Techniques	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Data Structures and Algorithms	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2010 - 2019	Computer & Networks Management and Security	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2012 - 2012	Object Oriented Programming	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2011 - 2011	Operating Systems	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2010/10 - 2010/10	Multimedia	Engenharia Informática (Bachelor)	Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique, Mozambique

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/03 - Current	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology (1516-8913)	Instituto de Tecnologia do Parana
2021/02 - Current	Neural Processing Letters (1370-4621)	Springer Netherlands
2021/01 - Current	Journal of New Music Research (0929-8215)	Taylor and Francis
2020/10 - Current	IEEE Access (2169-3536)	IEEE
2020/09 - Current	IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1558-2361)	IEEE
2017 - Current	IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (1949-3045)	IEEE
2015 - Current	IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (1558-7924)	IEEE

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/01 - 2024/01	Referee in the FRIAS Senior Fellowship programme, evaluated a project application related to music and emotion.	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
2023 - 2023	Referee for the Best MSc Thesis Award 2022/2023 by the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP)	Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões (APRP), Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2022	Best PhD Thesis award Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões (APRP), Portugal
2020	2nd prize - Best PhD Thesis / Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2020 Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2018	Best poster at Gestão & Tecnologi@ - Criação de Valor em Saúde (GESTEC) National Conference
2012	1st place at MIREX Audio Train/Test: Mood Classification Task

Other distinction

2016	Nomination to Best Paper at 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2016)