Tiago Martins (6A15-C121-6F8E)

Curriculum Vitae

Tiago Martins

Tiago Martins is a researcher at the Computational Design and Visualization Lab. (CMS/CISUC) and assistant professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra. His work explores the intersection of design, art, and computation, with a focus on generative systems, computational creativity, and evolutionary approaches. He holds a PhD in Information Science and Technology and an MSc and BSc in Design and Multimedia. His research has been published in international journals and conferences, addressing topics such as interactive systems, creative AI, and computational tools for design and artistic practice.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Tiago Martins

Citation names

Martins, Tiago

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 6A15-C121-6F8E
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2638-237X
Google Scholar ID: _cpvnloAAAAJ

Websites

https://cdv.dei.uc.pt/people/tiago-martins (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Humanities - Arts

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021 Concluded	Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Automated Evolution for Design" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013 Concluded	Design e Multimédia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Algorithmic and Computational Approaches in Art and Design" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011 Concluded	Design e Multimédia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

2021 - 2023	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2015 - 2021	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2019 - 2019	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2015/01 - 2018/12	PhD Individual Grant SFRH/BD/105506/2014 FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), Portugal	Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Concluded
2014 - 2014	iCIS - Intelligent Computing in the Internet of Services CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002003
2014 - 2014	VisualYzART QREN 23201
2013 - 2014	SBIRC – Style Based Image Retrieval and Classification PTDC/EIA-EIA/115667/2009	Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
2013 - 2013	HPCoLSI - High Performance Computing over the Large-Scale Internet PTDC/EIA-EIA/102212/2008	Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/11/01 - 2027/10/31	CERAMORFOSE - Innovation in ceramic products through generative design, artificial intelligence, and additive manufacturing CENTRO2030-FEDER-01186800 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Ongoing
2022/08/01 - 2023/01/31	A Coin designed by AI no-identifier Researcher	Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA
2021 - 2023	POWER - Empowering a digital future POCI-01-0247-FEDER-070365 Researcher
2021 - 2022	BEIS - Bridge Engineering Information System 46969 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	CENTRO DE INFORMÁTICA E SISTEMAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA UID/CEC/00326/2019 154639UID Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018 - 2019	Multimedia Modules for Fundação Cupertino de Miranda LIS/IPN Project 722
2014 - 2016	Concrete - Concept Creation Technology FET grant number 611733	European Commission

Outputs

Publications

Book	Martins, Tiago; Rodríguez-Fernández, Nereida; Rebelo, Sérgio M.. Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design: 11th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20–22, 2022, Proceedings. Cham, Germany: Springer Nature Switzerland. 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4 Romero, Juan; Martins, Tiago; Rodríguez, Nereida. Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design - 10th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2021, Held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual Event, April 7-9, 2021, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing. 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1 • Editor Romero, Juan; Ekárt, Anikó; Martins, Tiago. Artificial Intelligence Springer in Music, Sound, Art and Design - 9th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing. 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3 • Editor
Book chapter	Ricardo Sacadura; Luís Gonçalo; Tiago Martins; Penousal Machado. "Expanding Design Horizons: Evolutionary Tool for Parametric Design Exploration with Interactive and CLIP-Based Evaluation". 2025. 10.1007/978-3-031-73497-7_7 João Eduardo Batista; Fraser Garrow; Carlo Huesca-Spairani; Tiago Martins. "Evoboard: Geoboard-Inspired Evolved Typefonts". 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-56992-0_2 Jorge Santos; Rafael Murta; João M. Cunha; Sérgio M. Rebelo; Tiago Martins; Pedro Martins. "Evolving Urban Landscapes". 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-49011-8_6 Correia, João; Baeta, Francisco; Martins, Tiago. "Evolutionary Generative Models". In Handbook of Evolutionary Machine Learning, 283-329. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. 10.1007/978-981-99-3814-8_10 Machado, Penousal; Baeta, Francisco; Martins, Tiago; Correia, João. "GP-Based Generative Adversarial Models". In Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIX, 117-140. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-981-19-8460-0_6 Jéssica Parente; Tiago Martins; João Bicker; Penousal Machado. "Correction to: SpeechTyper: From Speech to Typographic Composition". 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4_27 Cunha, João Miguel; Martins, Tiago; Matos Chaves, Pedro; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Dynamic Visual Identities: Exploring Variation Mechanisms to Achieve Flexibility". In Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication, 91-104. Springer International Publishing, 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-49647-0_6 "Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design". 2015. 10.1007/978-3-319-16498-4\_13
Conference paper	Francisco Baeta; João Correia; Tiago Martins; Penousal Machado. "Exploring Evolutionary Generators within Generative Adversarial Networks". 2024. 10.1145/3638530.3654348 Cristóvão, João; Oliveira, Alexandra; Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio M.; Martins, Pedro. "ScanType: Evolutionary Letter Finding". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024: Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Viana do Castelo, 2024. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-73497-7_5 Machado, Penousal; Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Espírito Santo, Luís; Lourenço, Nuno; Cunha, João Miguel; Rebelo, Sérgio; Martins, Pedro; Bicker, João. "From Pixels to Metal: AI-Empowered Numismatic Art". Paper presented in Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI, Arts & Creativity, 2024. Published • 10.24963/ijcai.2024/854 Martins, Tiago; Cunha, João Miguel; Correia, João; Machado, Penousal; Tiago Martins; João M. Cunha; João Correia; Penousal Machado. "Towards the evolution of prompts with metaprompter". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2023, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_12 Parente, Jéssica; Gonçalo, Luís; Martins, Tiago; Cunha, João Miguel; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal; Jéssica Parente; et al. "Using autoencoders to generate skeletonbased typography". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2023, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_15 Parente, Jéssica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal; Jéssica Parente; Tiago Martins; João Bicker; Penousal Machado. Corresponding author: Parente, Jéssica. "SpeechTyper: From speech to typographic composition". Paper presented in 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Madrid, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4_14 Martins, Tiago; Baeta, Francisco; Correia, João; Machado, Penousal. "Speed Benchmarking of Genetic Programming Frameworks". Paper presented in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), 2021. 10.1145/3449639.3459335 Santos, André; Martins, Tiago; Correia, João. "Creating Artistic Geographical Maps with Neural Style Transfer". Paper presented in 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2021), 2021. Rebelo, Sérgio; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Exploring Automatic Fitness Evaluation for Evolutionary Typesetting". Paper presented in 13th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2021. 10.1145/3450741.3465247 Martins, Tiago; Seiça, Mariana; Martins, Pedro. "Planar: Discovering City Soundscapes". Paper presented in 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2021), 2021. Baeta, Francisco; Correia, João (8D17-91B1-04CF); Martins, Tiago (6A15-C121-6F8E); Machado, Penousal (F414-96CE-1D6B). "TensorGP – Genetic Programming Engine in TensorFlow". Paper presented in EvoApplications: International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar), 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-72699-7_48 Almeida, Sofia Soto; Boavida, Ana; Tiago Martins. "Type Gym: typography training platform". Paper presented in International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, Digicom 2021, 2021. Parente, Jéssica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João; Hardman, Paul; Machado, Penousal. "Working with Type: Approaches on Generative and Evolutionary Typographic Creation". Paper presented in Joint Workshops of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, co-located with the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2020), 2020. Parente, Jéssica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Which type is your type?". Paper presented in 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2020), 2020. Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Portraits of No One: An Internet Artwork". Paper presented in ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2020. 10.1145/3394171.3416337 Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Portraits of No One: An Interactive Installation". Paper presented in 9th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2020), 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_8 Bicker, João; Chaves, Pedro Matos; Cunha, João Miguel; Martins, Tiago; Chaves, Pedro M.; Cunha, João M.; Martins, Tiago. "Flexibility in Dynamic Visual Identities: Exploring Variation Machanisms to achieve Flexibility". Paper presented in Digicom: 3th International Conference on Design & Digital Communication, Barcelos, 2019. Published Correia, João; Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. "Evolutionary data augmentation in deep face detection". Paper presented in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), 2019. 10.1145/3319619.3322053 Pereira, Fábio André; Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João. "Generative Type Design: Creating Glyphs from Typographical Skeletons". Paper presented in 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts (ARTECH 2019), 2019. 10.1145/3359852.3359866 Pereira, Fábio; Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João. "Web-based Tool for the Generation of Letterforms". Paper presented in 10th Typography Meeting (10ET), 2019. Rebelo, Sérgio; Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Artur; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Using Computational Approaches in Visual Identity Design: A Visual Identity for the Design and Multimedia Courses of Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University of Coimbra". Paper presented in 10th Typography Meeting (10ET), 2019. 10.48550/ARXIV.2209.03420 Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Portraying with Letters: An Interactive Installation". Paper presented in International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2019), 2019. Gostyaeva, Gloriya; Machado, Penousal; Martins, Tiago. "Evolving Virtual Ecology". Paper presented in Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation (ArtsIT 2018), 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0_26 Parente, Jéssica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João. "Generative type design: An approach focused on skeletons extraction and their anatomical deconstruction". Paper presented in Typography Meeting (9ET), Tomar, 2018. Published Parente, Jessica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, Joao. "Data-Driven Logotype Design". Paper presented in 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV 2018), 2018. 10.1109/iv.2018.00022 Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Building typefaces as programs: A node-based approach for modular type design". Paper presented in 9th Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018. Rebelo, Sérgio; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Typography as Image: Experiments on Typographic Portraits". Paper presented in 9th Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018. Parente, Jéssica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João. "Generative Type Design". Paper presented in 9th Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018. Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Costa, Ernesto; Machado, Penousal. "Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2018), 2018. 10.1007/978-3-319-77583-8_20 Correia, João; Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro; Machado, Penousal. "X-Faces: The eXploit Is Out There". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), 2016. Cunha, João M.; Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool". Paper presented in Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence workshop, 2016. Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Costa, Ernesto; Machado, Penousal. "Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs". Paper presented in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), 2016. 10.1145/2908812.2908907 Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Costa, Ernesto; Machado, Penousal. "Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2015), 2015. 10.1007/978-3-319-16498-4_13 Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. "Drawing Sounds". Paper presented in 2nd Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 20214), 2014. Machado, Penousal; Martins, Tiago; Amaro, Hugo; Henriques Abreu, Pedro; Penousal Machado; Tiago Martins; Hugo Amaro; Pedro H. Abreu. "An interface for fitness function design". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2014), 2014. 10.1007/978-3-662-44335-4_2 Tiago Martins; Penousal Machado; Artur Rebelo. "The garden of virtual delights". 2013. 10.1145/2503385.2503413
Conference poster	Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Rebelo, Sérgio M.; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Portraits of No One: Between the Real and the Artificial". Paper presented in Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Disruptive Joint Venture (ART)^2INT. Workshop at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020. Santiago de Compostela/Online., 2020. Caetano, Joana; Hardman, Paul; Martins, Tiago. "Interactive Animated Alphabet". Paper presented in 9th Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018. Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal; Rebelo, Artur. "The Garden of Virtual Delights: virtual fauna for a botanical garden". Paper presented in Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH), 2013.
Journal article	Rebelo, Sérgio M.; Martins, Tiago; Ferreira, Diogo; Rebelo, Artur. "Towards the automation of book typesetting". Visual Informatics 7 2 (2023): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visinf.2023.01.003. 10.1016/j.visinf.2023.01.003 Francisco Baeta; João Correia; Tiago Martins; Penousal Machado. "Exploring Genetic Programming in TensorFlow with TensorGP". SN Computer Science 3 2 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-01006-8. 10.1007/s42979-021-01006-8 Baeta, Francisco; Correia, Joao; Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. "TGPGAN - Towards Expression-based Generative Adversarial Networks". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Gecco (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/55725663/. 10.1145/3520304.3529064 Baeta, Francisco; Correia, Joao; Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. "Exploring Expression-based Generative Adversarial Networks". Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Gecco (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/55725664/. 10.1145/3520304.3534002 Correia, João; Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "The X-Faces Behind the Portraits of No One". SN Computer Science 2 4 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00604-w. 10.1007/s42979-021-00604-w Duarte, Eduarda; Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Artur. "Variable Image Patterns". Artech: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts (2021): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/55725665/. 10.1145/3483529.3483658 Parente, Jéssica; Martins, Tiago; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Designing Dynamic Logotypes to Represent Data". International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies 8 1 (2019): 16-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2019010102. 10.4018/ijacdt.2019010102 Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Costa, Ernesto; Machado, Penousal. "Evolving Stencils for Typefaces: Combining Machine Learning, User’s Preferences and Novelty". Complexity 2019 (2019): 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3509263. 10.1155/2019/3509263 Martins, Tiago; João, Miguel Cunha; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. "Dynamic visual identities: from a survey of the state-of-the-art to a model of features and mechanisms". Visible Language 53 2 (2019): 4-35. Machado, Penousal; Martins, Tiago; Amaro, Hugo; Abreu, Pedro H.. "Beyond Interactive Evolution: Expressing Intentions Through Fitness Functions". Leonardo 49 3 (2016): 251-256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01103. 10.1162/leon_a_01103
Thesis / Dissertation	Martins, Tiago. "Algorithmic and Computational Approaches in Art and Design". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/35552.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition

Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Rebelo, Sérgio. Interactive installation "Portraits of No One" exhibited at Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC), Coimbra, Portugal. 2021.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro; Seiça, Mariana. Audiovisual installation "Planar" in the exhibition "Dar a Ouvir. Paisagens sonoras da Cidade", at Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2020.
Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Bicker, João; Machado, Penousal. Video "Middle Passage" in the permanent exhibition of the Torre Literária, at Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. 2020.
Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio; Machado, Penousal; Bicker, João. Interactive installation "Retratos Tipográficos" (Typographic Posters) in the permanent exhibition of the Torre Literária, at Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. 2020.
Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio. Project "Grammartype" in the exhibition "SELECTED 2019", at Bilbao, Spain. 2019.
Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Machado, Penousal. Project "Evotype" in the exhibition "Y, Desenhar Portugal" (Porto Design Biennale 2019), at Galeria Municipal, Matosinhos, Portugal. 2019.
Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Rebelo, Sérgio. Interactive installation "Portraits of No One" in the exhibition "Prémio Sonae Media Art 2019", at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (MNAC), Lisboa, Portugal. 2019.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the event "Serralves em Festa 2019", Porto, Portugal. 2019.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the event "National Meeting of Multimedia Students", at Conservatório de Música de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. 2019.
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Project "Photogrowth/Instaants" in the demonstration "Generation of graphic art using bio-inspired algorithms: Photogrowth / insta.ants" as part of the event Creativity and Computing on the 50th anniversary of the Computing Center of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. 2019.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the performance "Paisagens Sonoras da Cidade: Ressonâncias da Alta e Sofia" by Luís Antero and Pedro Martins, at Colégio do Espírito Santo, Coimbra, Portugal. 2018.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the exhibition "MS01 - Instalação audiovisual" at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2018.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the performance "Concerto para Gavetas" by Luís Antero and Pedro Martins, at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2018.
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Project "Photogrowth/Instaants" in the exhibition "Growing Forms: Natural Born Mathematics" as part of the 7th Conference on Digital Tools in Mathematics Education (CADGME 2018), at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. 2018.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the performance "Ilustrações Sonoras da Cidade" by Luís Antero and Pedro Martins, at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2017.
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Project "Photogrowth/Instaants" in the exhibition of the 5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2017), at National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Lisbon, Portugal. 2017.
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Project "Photogrowth/Instaants" in the exhibition of the event "Romaria Cultural 2017", at Galerias João Abel Manta, in Gouveia, Portugal. 2017.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the exhibition "Dar a Ouvir - Paisagens Sonoras da Cidade", at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal. 2017.
Martins, Tiago; Martins, Pedro. Interative installation "Mobiliário Sonoro" (Sounding Furniture) in the exhibition "Mobiliário Sonoro", at Museu Temporário de Memórias, Coimbra, Portugal. 2016.
Martins, Tiago. Video "Legado Romano" (Roman Legacy) in the exhibition "Lusitania Romana", at the National Archaeology Museum (MNA), Lisbon, Portugal. 2016.
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Interactive installation "Drawing Sounds" in the exhibition of the 2nd Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2014), at Axa building, Porto, Portugal. 2014.

Visual artwork

Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Cover artwork created with the system "Photogrowth" for Leonardo journal (volume 49, issue 3, published by MIT Press).
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Cover artwork created with the system "Photogrowth" for Joelho journal (issue 5, published by e|d|arq).
Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal. Cover artwork created with the system "Photogrowth" for the 2017 MIT Press Journal catalog.
Machado, Penousal; Martins, Tiago; Correia, João; Espírito Santo, Luís; Lourenço, Nuno; Cunha, João Miguel; Rebelo, Sérgio; Martins, Pedro; Bicker, João. O Mundo Digital (Prata Proof Coin, 2023).
Martins, Tiago; Rebelo, Sérgio M.. GrammarType project featured in book "Slanted 40: Experimental Type 2.0" (2023: 154, project 226).

Other

Other output

The garden of virtual delights. 2013. Martins, Tiago; Machado, Penousal.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023	Artificial Design	First Conference of Artistic Practices and Forms of Knowledge in the Imaginaries of the Technosphere Department of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2019/01	Invited speaker at Processing Community Day Lisbon	Processing Community Day Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/07	Presentation of projects Photogrowth and Instaants in the Universidade de Verão 2017, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra	(Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/10	Invited speaker with the presentation "The History of Computational Art" in the course Computational Art of the Master's degree in Design and Multimedia of the University of Coimbra, Portugal	(Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Craft in the Age of Algorithms: Generative Approaches to Ceramic Design Supervisor	Design de Media Computacionais (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2024 - Current	Liquid Beings: An Interactive Media Art Installation to Engage with the Unknown Depths Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Decomposing Visual Information: Computational Approach to Visual Element Extraction Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Personalização em Identidades Visuais Dinâmicas: Estudo sobre Participação e Reatividade Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Learning to Interact Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Do Som à Forma: Um Sistema Interdisciplinar para a Criação Tipográfica através da Análise de Ruídos Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Aplicação de técnicas de design generativo para o fabrico aditivo de cerâmica Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Kinetic Design Systems Supervisor	Design de Media Computacionais (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2023 - Current	Human-AI Interaction in Graphic Design Tasks: aiming to break the mould of prompt-based generation Supervisor	Design de Media Computacionais (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2020 - Current	An Evolutionary Machine Learning Approach to Generative Models Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - Current	Sound-driven Type Design Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Evolving interactive images Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Digital fabrication of generative artefacts Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Layout e composição: uma experiência de evolução interactiva Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Pseudo-typography: From the Verbal Sense to the Visual Sense Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Towards Automated Generative Design Supervisor	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Visual Interpretations of Movement – An Interactive Installation Supervisor	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Graphic Ground – Generative Modular System for the Creation of Visual Communication Materials Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Dashboard of States and Events in Real Time in a Hospital Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Computational Tools for Designing Dynamic Visual Identities Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Designing Experimental Tangible Devices for Interactive Installations Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2023	Bridge Cost Forecast Co-supervisor	Engenharia e Ciência de Dados (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	A Service and Interaction Design Case Study Towards Sustainable Transitions in Fashion Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Adversarial Attacks for Classification Systems Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Computational Design of Letters: From Modules to Body through Texture Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Usability for Visualisation of Metrics Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Creating Stylised Geographic Maps with Neural Style Transfer Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Artefactos Visuais Reativos Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Type Gym: Typography Interactive Training Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2020	Genetic Programming in Graphic Processing Units with TensorFlow Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2020	Interactive Digital Poster Design Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2020	UI/UX concept for website Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2020	Sabão com Arte Supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - 2019	From Skeleton to Form: Algorithmic Explorations in Letterform Design Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Algorithmic and Generative Type Design Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Evolving Virtual Ecologies Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Interactive Animated Alphabet Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Smart Lamppost - Visual Identity System and Application in Multiple Means Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018	EMGOPEN - Design elements for brand communication Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013 - 2014	Musical-Visual Instruments: Synthesising Sounds with Colours Co-supervisor	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021	Ciclo de Conversas Design + Multimédia 2021 (2021/04 - 2021/05)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Processing Community Day 2020 Coimbra, Portugal (2020/12 - 2020/12)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Member of the local organization of the 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Coimbra, Portugal (2018/09 - 2018/09) Conference	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Member of the local organization of the Evostar 2016, Porto, Portugal (2018/03 - 2018/03) Conference	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Member of the local organization of the Evostar 2016, Porto, Coimbra (2016/03 - 2016/03)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Member of the local organization of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA) (2015/09 - 2015/09)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Member of the local organization of the PROSECCO Code Camp on Computational Creativity, Coimbra, Portugal (2015/01 - 2015/01)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2013	Member of the local organization of the 4th Luso-Brazilian Summer School on Evolutionary Computation, Coimbra, Portugal (2013/07 - 2013/07)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Member of the local organization of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) Open 2010, Porto, Portugal (2010/10 - 2010/10)

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021	A Case Study in Generative Game Design (Thesis) Main arguer	Nuno Daniel Correia Fernandes (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021	Identity in Motion: animated visual identity for Teatrão (Thesis) Main arguer	Beatriz da Costa Baltazar (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021	Webdesign, Design de Comunicação e Multimédia para Escola de Condução (Thesis) Main arguer	Mónica Raquel Oliveira Gonçalves (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020	Transition Design Canvas - Collaboration Environment (Thesis) Arguer	Andriana Peresta (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020	Communication and Multimedia Design of C.I.M.D.C (Thesis) Arguer	Susana Isabel Pito Nevado (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2025 - Current	Member of the Organizing Committee of the Workshop "Computational Design and Computer-aided Creativity" (International Conference on Computational Creativity - ICCC)
2024 - Current	Member of the Organizing Committee of the Thematic Track on AI and Creativity (EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
2021 - 2022	Conference Chair of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART)
2020 - 2020	Publication Chair of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART)

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023 - Current	Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)
2016 - Current	Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART)
2024 - 2024	Member of the Scientific Committee of EIMAD’24 – 9th International Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design
2024 - 2024	Review Board Member at the 8th edition of the Regional Helix International Conference (2024) — International Conference on Sustainable Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Technology and Design
2023 - 2023	Member of the Program Committee for the Information+ 2023 Conference on 22–24 November 2023 in Edinburgh, UK.
2023 - 2023	Member of the Program Committee of the Thematic Track on AI, Generation and Creativity (EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023)
2021 - 2022	Design Research Society International Conference (DRS)
2016 - 2016	Bridges 2016

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019	Universidade de Verão 2019 - Design Elétrico		Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2017 - 2017	5th MatLit Summer School - Introduction to Processing		Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2024	APDC Best Thesis Award in the Media category with the Master’s thesis of Laura Pais, as Master’s student in Design and Multimedia, supervised by Ana Boavida and Tiago Martins
2024	Our project "Mundo Digital: Moeda desenhada por Inteligência Artificial" was awarded two special mentions at the 8ª Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID24): one for Innovation in Design and another for Design and Technology
2024	Winner of the 2024 HUMIES Silver Award with the paper "From Pixels to Metal: AI-Empowered Numismatic Art"
2023	Best Paper Award at EvoMusArt 2023 conference with the paper "Using Autoencoders to Generate Skeleton-based Typography"
2021	Winner of the National Contest of Young Creators 2021 in the Graphic Design category with the project Letterspecies
2019	Finalist of Sonae Media Art 2019 award with the work "Portraits of No One"
2019	SELECTED 2019 award with the work "Grammar-type: a node-based approach for modular type design"
2018	Best Paper Award at EvoMusArt 2018 conference with the paper "Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils"
2018	Outstanding Student of EvoStar 2018. This award was attributed by EvoStar and intends to «recognise the good work of students who represent the future of their community»
2014	Best Paper Award at EvoMusArt 2014 conference with the paper "An Interface for Fitness Function Design"
2013	Merit Scholarship as high-graded student of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC). Scholarship awarded by the University of Coimbra to students with the highest grades in each one of its faculties. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013	Pixel D’Ouro 2013 – Best Student Award. Annual award by NEI/AAC
2013	3% Best Students Award in the year 2012/2013. Annual prize by University of Coimbra Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2011	Pixel D’Ouro 2011 – Best Student Award. Annual award by NEI/AAC
2011	3% Best Students Award in the year 2010/2011. Annual prize by University of Coimbra Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Other distinction

2020	Selected for the biennale Golden Bee 14 with the work "Portraits of No One"
2018	Runner-up of Evo* 2018 Best Student Paper award
2018	The European Innovation Radar plataform identified University of Coimbra as a «key innovator» with the development of the work Evotype (Innovation category: Exploration; Developed in FP7 project ConCreTe).
2018	The Innovation Radar plataform identified University of Coimbra as a «key innovator» with the development of the work Photogrowth (Innovation category: Exploration; Developed in FP7 project ConCreTe).
2015	Nomination for Best Paper Award at EvoMusArt 2015 conference with the paper "Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design"