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Nuno Lourenço is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, where he obtained his PhD in Information Science and Technology in 2016. He is the current coordinator of the Evolutionary and Complex Systems (ECOS) group and has been a member of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of University of Coimbra (CISUC) since 2009. Formerly, he was appointed as a Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. His main research interests are in the areas of Bio-Inspired Algorithms, Optimisation and Machine Learning. He is the co-creator of Structured Grammatical Evolution and Probabilistic Grammatical Evolution, and DENSER, a novel approach to automatically design Deep Artificial Neural Networks using Evolutionary Computation. He served as chair in the main conferences of the Evolutionary Computation field, namely EuroGP 2020 and EuroGP 2021 as program chair, and PPSN 2018 and EuroGP 2019 as publication chair. He is a member of the Programme Committee of GECCO, PPSN, and EuroGP; a member of the Steering Committee of EuroGP; and an executive board member of SPECIES. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 articles in journals and top conferences from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence areas and he has been involved as a researcher in 13 projects (national and international).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nuno Lourenço

Citation names

  • Lourenço, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A213-48FB-DD6F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2154-0642
Google Scholar ID
IC4uQLcAAAAJ
Researcher Id
E-1699-2018
Scopus Author Id
56375691800

Email addresses

  • naml@dei.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Departamento de Engenharia Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade de Coimbra. Pólo II - Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290 C, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2011/09/01 - 2016/03/02
Concluded
 Programa Doutoral Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Enhancing Grammar-Based Approaches for the Automatic Design of Algorithms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa Cum Laude
2011/07/21
Concluded
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Cluster Geometry Optimization" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2008/07/31
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/30 - Current Coordinating Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
2009/09/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/12/14 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2023/12/13 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2019/08/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2015/08/31 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/12/20 - 2016/08/31 Senior Research Officer University of Essex, United Kingdom
2010/09/01 - 2011/09/30 Graduated Teaching Assistent Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/01/01 - Current Center for Responsible AI
C645008882-00000055
Researcher
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2022/10/01 - Current CONNECT5 - Digital Innovation Hub for Connectivity, IoT, Cloud, Edge and CPS
C659346318-00001565
Researcher
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
2022/05/01 - Current Neuraspace - AI Fights Space Debris
C644877546-00000020
Principal investigator
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2020/07/01 - Current Camelot - autonomiC plAtform for MachinE Learning using anOnymized daTa
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045915
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - Current GADgET: Online Gambling Addiction Detection
DSAIPA/DS/0022/2018
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2024/01/30 OREOS: Orchestration and Resource optimization for rEliable and lOw-latency Services
POCI/01/0247/FEDER/047222
Researcher
Concluded
2020/07 - 2023/07 POWER - Empowering a digital future
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-070365
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2023/03/31 A4A: Audiology for All
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-047083
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2020/10/01 - 2023/03/31 BEIS - Bridge Engineering Information System
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046969
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
Concluded
2018/07 - 2021/06 MitoScreening: Development and Validation of Innovative Screening Methods for Mitochondrial Health Modulators
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029297
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2020/09/30 LEXIA
webpage
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2018/03/01 STRATIO-AI
webpage
Researcher
Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2018/03/01 FCT/CAPES: Study of the energetic landscapes of atomic clusters by applying novel bio-inspired algorithms
webpage
Researcher
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Mégane, J.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. Probabilistic Grammatical Evolution. 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-72812-0_13
  2. Costa, V.; Lourenço, N.; Correia, J.; Machado, P.. Demonstrating the Evolution of GANs Through t-SNE. 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-72699-7_39
  3. Katona, A.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Franks, D.W.; Walker, J.A.. Utilizing the Untapped Potential of Indirect Encoding for Neural Networks with Meta Learning. 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-72699-7_34
  4. Hu, T.; Lourenço, N.; Medvet, E.. Preface. 2021.
  5. Hu, T.; Lourenço, N.; Medvet, E.; Divina, F.. Preface. 2020.
  6. Sekanina, L.; Hu, T.; Lourenço, N.; Richter, H.; García-Sánchez, P.. Preface. 2019.
    10.1017/CBO9780511804137.001
  7. Maçãs, C.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. Interactive Evolution of Swarms for the Visualisation of Consumptions. 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0_11
  8. Auger, A.; Fonseca, C.M.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Paquete, L.; Whitley, D.. Preface. 2018.
  9. Assunção, F.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. Using GP Is NEAT: Evolving compositional pattern production functions. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-77553-1_1
  10. Auger, A.; Fonseca, C.M.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Paquete, L.; Whitley, D.. Preface. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-99259-4
  11. Fonseca, A.; Lourenço, N.; Cabral, B.. Evolving cut-off mechanisms and other work-stealing parameters for parallel programs. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-55849-3_49
  12. Lourenço, N.; Assunção, F.; Maçãs, C.; Machado, P.. Evofashion: Customising fashion through evolution. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-55750-2_12
  13. Lourenço, N.; Ferrer, J.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.. A comparative study of different grammar-based genetic programming approaches. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-55696-3_20
  14. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.. SGE: A structured representation for grammatical evolution. 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-31471-6_11
  15. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.. The optimization ability of evolved strategies. 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_23
  16. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.; Costa, E.. Learning selection strategies for evolutionary algorithms. 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-11683-9_16
  17. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.. PSO-CGO: A Particle Swarm Algorithm for Cluster Geometry Optimization. 2013.
    10.4018/978-1-4666-4253-9.ch001
Book chapter
  1. Francisco Miranda; Evgheni Polisciuc; Nuno Lourenço. "HyTEA: Hybrid Tree Evolutionary Algorithm". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-42616-2_2
  2. Stefano Sarti; Nuno Laurenço; Jason Adair; Penousal Machado; Gabriela Ochoa. "Under the Hood of Transfer Learning for Deep Neuroevolution". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-30229-9_41
  3. Gabriel Fernandes; Nuno Lourenço; João Correia. "Reducing the Price of Stable Cable Stayed Bridges with CMA-ES". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-30229-9_15
  4. Pedro Carvalho; Jessica Mégane; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado. "Context Matters: Adaptive Mutation for Grammars". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-29573-7_8
  5. José Maria Simões; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado. "All You Need is Sex for Diversity". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-29573-7_18
  6. Pedro Carvalho; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado. "Evolving Adaptive Neural Network Optimizers for Image Classification". 3-18. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-02056-8_1
  7. Roney Malaguti; Nuno Lourenço; Cristovão Silva. "A Well Lubricated Machine: A Data Driven Model for Lubricant Oil Conditions". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_43
  8. Mariana Monteiro; Nuno Lourenço; Francisco B. Pereira. "FERMAT: Feature Engineering with Grammatical Evolution". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_19
  9. Roney Malaguti; Nuno Lourenço; Cristovão Silva. "Wear and Tear: A Data Driven Analysis of the Operating Condition of Lubricant Oils". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-85914-5_23
  10. Filipe Assunção; Nuno Lourenço; Bernardete Ribeiro; Penousal Machado. "Incremental Evolution and Development of Deep Artificial Neural Networks". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-44094-7_3
  11. Filipe Assunção; Nuno Lourenço; Bernardete Ribeiro; Penousal Machado. "Evolution of Scikit-Learn Pipelines with Dynamic Structured Grammatical Evolution". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-43722-0_34
  12. Costa, Victor; Lourenço, Nuno; Correia, João; Machado, Penousal. "Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs". In Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 562-577. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-43722-0_36
  13. Costa, V.; Lourenço, N.; Correia, J.; Machado, P.. "Neuroevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks". 293-322. 2020.
    10.1007/978-981-15-3685-4_11
  14. Lourenço, Nuno. "Coevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-16692-2_32
  15. Filipe Assunção; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado; Bernardete Ribeiro. "Fast DENSER: Efficient Deep NeuroEvolution". 197-212. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-16670-0_13
  16. João M. Cunha; Nuno Lourenço; João Correia; Pedro Martins; Penousal Machado. "Emojinating: Evolving Emoji Blends". 110-126. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-16667-0_8
  17. Filipe Assunção; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado; Bernardete Ribeiro. "Evolving the Topology of Large Scale Deep Neural Networks". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-77553-1_2
  18. Lourenço, N.; Assunção, F.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.; Machado, P.. "Structured grammatical evolution: A dynamic approach". 137-161. 2018.
  19. Marques, Jorge; Jesus, Wanderson; Prudente, Frederico; Pereira, Francisco B.; Lourenco, Nuno. "Revealing energy landscapes of atomic clusters by applying adaptive bio- inspired algorithms". edited by Alexander V. Vakhrushev; Reza Haghia; J. V. de Julián-Ortiz. 2018.
Conference paper
  1. Henrique Branquinho; Nuno Lourenço; Ernesto Costa. "SPENSER: Towards a NeuroEvolutionary Approach for Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks". 2023.
    10.1145/3583133.3596399
  2. Aidan Murphy; Nuno Lourenço; Anthony Ventresque. "Initialisation in Structured Grammatical Evolution". 2023.
    10.1145/3583133.3596412
  3. Victor Costa; Nuno Lourenço; João Correia; Penousal Machado. "Exploring Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Image Generation with Evolution Strategies". 2023.
    10.1145/3583133.3590549
  4. Jessica Mégane; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado; Dirk Schweim. "The Influence of Probabilistic Grammars on Evolution". 2023.
    10.1145/3583133.3590706
  5. Leon Ingelse; José-Ignacio Hidalgo; José Manuel Colmenar; Nuno Lourenço; Alcides Fonseca. "Comparing Individual Representations in Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming for Glucose Prediction in People with Diabetes". 2023.
    10.1145/3583133.3596315
  6. Stefano Tiso; Pedro Carvalho; Nuno Lourenço; Penousal Machado. "Biological insights on grammar-structured mutations improve fitness and diversity". 2023.
    10.1145/3583131.3590472
  7. José D'Abruzzo Pereira; Nuno Lourenço; Marco Vieira. "On the Use of Deep Graph CNN to Detect Vulnerable C Functions". 2022.
    10.1145/3569902.3569913
  8. Costa, V.; Lourenço, N.; Correia, J.; MacHado, P.. "Improved evolution of generative adversarial networks". 2021.
    10.1145/3449726.3459448
  9. Garciarena, U.; Lourenço, N.; MacHado, P.; Santana, R.; Mendiburu, A.. "On the exploitation of neuroevolutionary information". 2021.
    10.1145/3449726.3459507
  10. Costa, V.; Lourenco, N.; Correia, J.; Machado, P.. "Exploring the evolution of GANs through quality diversity". 2020.
    10.1145/3377930.3389824
  11. Carvalho, P.; Lourenco, N.; Assuncao, F.; Machado, P.. "AutoLR: An evolutionary approach to learning rate policies". 2020.
    10.1145/3377930.3390158
  12. Martins, J.; Barbosa, R.; Lourenco, N.; Robin, J.; Madeira, H.. "Online Verification through Model Checking of Medical Critical Intelligent Systems". 2020.
    10.1109/DSN-W50199.2020.00015
  13. Lourenço, N.; Colmenar, J.M.; Hidalgo, J.I.; Salcedo-Sanz, S.. "Evolving energy demand estimation models over macroeconomic indicators". 2020.
    10.1145/3377930.3390153
  14. Costa, V.; Correia, J.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. "Coegan: Evaluating the coevolution effect in generative adversarial networks". 2019.
    10.1145/3321707.3321746
  15. Lourenço, N.; Hidalgo, J.I.; Colmenar, J.M.; Garnica, Ó.. "Structured grammatical evolution for glucose prediction in diabetic patients". 2019.
    10.1145/3321707.3321782
  16. Lourenco, N.; Cabral, B.; Granjal, J.. "Driving Profile using Evolutionary Computation". 2019.
    10.1109/CEC.2019.8790154
  17. Valentim, I.; Lourenco, N.; Antunes, N.. "The Impact of Data Preparation on the Fairness of Software Systems". 2019.
    10.1109/ISSRE.2019.00046
  18. Assunção, F.; Sereno, D.; Lourenço, N.; MacHado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. "Automatic Evolution of AutoEncoders for Compressed Representations". 2018.
    10.1109/CEC.2018.8477874
  19. Antunes, N.; Balby, L.; Figueiredo, F.; Lourenco, N.; Meira, W.; Santos, W.. "Fairness and Transparency of Machine Learning for Trustworthy Cloud Services". 2018.
    10.1109/DSN-W.2018.00063
  20. Assuncao, F.; Lourenco, N.; Machado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. "Automatic generation of neural networks with structured Grammatical Evolution". 2017.
    10.1109/CEC.2017.7969488
  21. Lourenço, Nuno. "Towards the evolution of multi-layered neural networks". 2017.
    10.1145/3071178.3071286
  22. Assuncao, Filipe; Lourenco, Nuno; Machado, Penousal; Ribeiro, Bernardete. "Evolutionary Machine Learning: An Essay on Bechmarking". 2017.
  23. Assuncao, Filipe; Lourenco, Nuno; Machado, Penousal; Ribeiro, Bernardete. "Evolutionary Machine Learning: An Essay on Experimental Design". 2017.
  24. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.. "The importance of the learning conditions in hyper-heuristics". 2013.
    10.1145/2463372.2463558
  25. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.. "Evolving evolutionary algorithms". 2012.
    10.1145/2330784.2330794
  26. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.. "DACCO: A discrete ant colony algorithm to cluster geometry optimization". 2012.
    10.1145/2330163.2330170
Journal article
  1. Roney Malaguti; Nuno Lourenço; Cristovão Silva. "A supervised machine learning model for determining lubricant oil operating conditions". Expert Systems (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13116.
    10.1111/exsy.13116
  2. Filipe Assunção; Nuno Lourenço; Bernardete Ribeiro; Penousal Machado. "Fast-DENSER: Fast Deep Evolutionary Network Structured Representation". SoftwareX 14 (2021): 100694-100694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100694.
    10.1016/j.softx.2021.100694
  3. Sousa, B.; Arieiro, M.; Pereira, V.; Correia, J.; Lourenco, N.; Cruz, T.. "ELEGANT: Security of Critical Infrastructures with Digital Twins". IEEE Access 9 (2021): 107574-107588. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85111563976&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3100708
  4. Francisco Ferreira; Nuno Lourenco; Bruno Cabral; Joao Paulo Fernandes. "When Two are Better Than One: Synthesizing Heavily Unbalanced Data". IEEE Access 9 (2021): 150459-150469. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3126656.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3126656
  5. João M. Cunha; Nuno Lourenço; Pedro Martins; Penousal Machado. "Visual Blending for Concept Representation: A Case Study on Emoji Generation". New Generation Computing (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-020-00107-x.
    10.1007/s00354-020-00107-x
  6. Lourenço, Nuno. "Evolving Visual Artefacts based on Consumption Patterns". International Journal of Arts and Technology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijart.2020.10027995.
    10.1504/ijart.2020.10027995
  7. MaçAs, C.; Lourenço, N.; MacHado, P.. "Evolving visual artefacts based on consumption patterns". International Journal of Arts and Technology 12 1 (2020): 60-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85086799118&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1504/IJART.2020.107693
  8. Gonçalo C Pereira; Susana P Pereira; Francisco B Pereira; Nuno Lourenço; José A Lumini; Claudia V Pereira; James A Bjork; et al. "Early Cardiac Mitochondrial Molecular and Functional Responses to Acute Anthracycline Treatment in Wistar Rats". Toxicological Sciences (2019): https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfz026.
    10.1093/toxsci/kfz026
  9. Assunção, F.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. "DENSER: deep evolutionary network structured representation". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 20 1 (2019): 5-35. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85050580908&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10710-018-9339-y
  10. Assuncao, F.; Correia, J.; Conceicao, R.; Pimenta, M.J.M.; Tome, B.; Lourenco, N.; MacHado, P.. "Automatic Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Detection". IEEE Access 7 (2019): 110531-110540. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85088534214&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2933947
  11. Jorge Granjal; João Silva; Nuno Lourenço. "Intrusion Detection and Prevention in CoAP Wireless Sensor Networks Using Anomaly Detection". Sensors (2018): https://doi.org/10.3390/s18082445.
    10.3390/s18082445
  12. Burgeiro, A.; Fonseca, A.C.; Espinoza, D.; Carvalho, L.; Lourenço, N.; Antunes, M.; Carvalho, E.. "Proteostasis in epicardial versus subcutaneous adipose tissue in heart failure subjects with and without diabetes". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease 1864 6 (2018): 2183-2198. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85045041197&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.bbadis.2018.03.025
  13. Lassed, S.; Deus, C.M.; Lourenço, N.; Dahdouh, A.; Rizvanov, A.A.; Oliveira, P.J.; Zama, D.. "Diet, Lifestyles, Family History, and Prostate Cancer Incidence in an East Algerian Patient Group". BioMed Research International 2016 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84994560470&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1155/2016/5730569
  14. Lourenço, N.; Pereira, F.B.; Costa, E.. "Unveiling the properties of structured grammatical evolution". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 17 3 (2016): 251-289. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84957538271&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10710-015-9262-4

Other

Other output
  1. The Fedora Framework. 2023. Miguel Rabuge; Nuno Lourenço.
    10.5281/zenodo.10210805
  2. Demonstrating the evolution of GANs through t-SNE. 2021. Costa, V.; Lourenço, N.; Correia, J.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85101838874&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  3. Evolving Learning Rate Optimizers for deep neural networks. 2021. de Carvalho, P.F.G.R.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85103810199&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  4. On the exploitation of neuroevolutionary information: Analyzing the past for a more efficient future. 2021. Garciarena, U.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Santana, R.; Mendiburu, A.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85108251451&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  5. Evolution of scikit-learn pipelines with dynamic structured grammatical evolution. 2020. Assunçao, F.; Lourenço, N.; Ribeiro, B.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094745201&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  6. Incremental evolution and development of deep artificial neural networks. 2020. Assunçao, F.; Lourenço, N.; Ribeiro, B.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094789686&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  7. Using skill rating as fitness on the evolution of GANs. 2020. Costa, V.; Lourenço, N.; Correia, J.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094007164&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  8. AutoLR: An Evolutionary Approach to Learning Rate Policies. 2020. Carvalho, P.; Assunção, F.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095329430&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  9. Exploring the Evolution of GANs through Quality Diversity. 2020. Costa, V.; Correia, J.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095554274&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  10. Fast-DENSER++: Evolving fully-trained deep artificial neural networks. 2019. Assunção, F.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85093721938&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  11. Automatic design of artificial neural networks for gamma-ray detection. 2019. Assunção, F.; Correia, J.; Conceiçao, R.; Pimenta, M.; Tomé, B.; Lourenço, N.; MacHado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095176569&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  12. The impact of data preparation on the fairness of software systems. 2019. Valentim, I.; Lourenço, N.; Antunes, N.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095194837&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  13. COEGAN: Evaluating the Coevolution Effect in Generative Adversarial Networks. 2019. Costa, V.; Correia, J.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094382784&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  14. Coevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks. 2019. Costa, V.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094396067&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  15. DENSER: Deep evolutionary network structured representation. 2018. Assunção, F.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85093809482&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. Towards the evolution of multi-layered neural networks: A dynamic structured grammatical evolution approach. 2017. Assunção, F.; Lourenço, N.; Machado, P.; Ribeiro, B.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85093316747&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Probabilistic Grammar-Based Evolutionary Algorithms
Supervisor
2023 - Current NeuroEvolution for Spiking Neural Networks
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 - Current Automatic Semantic Layouts for Multiview Visualizations
Supervisor
2023 - Current Determination of the Operation Condition of Lubricating Oils in Diesel Engines
Supervisor
2023 - Current Sustainable Approaches to Energy Efficiency in Intelligent Systems
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 - Current Evolutionary Feature Engineering in Multiobjective Scenarios: Towards Enhanced Data Representation for Machine Learning
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/09 - Current Learning Through Evolution
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2020/09 - Current Speciation through Sexual Selection in Evolutionary Computation
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2020/09 - Current Improving the robustness of artificial neural networks
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2020 - Current Improved Beamforming on Millimeter-Ware Communications
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current MitoInformatics - Computational Tools for the Assessment of Mitochondrial Health
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/09/01 - Current Prototype of a decision support system for motor vehicles predictive maintenance
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2033 Coevolutionary Generative Adversarial Networks
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Evolving Learning Rate Schedulers
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Resilient Artificial Neural Networks
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Verifiable Machine Learning
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Optimisation By Learning
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/07/15 Finding Hidden Patterns on Cardiovascular Toxicology Problem: The case of Doxorubicin
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/07/01 Assessing the Fairness of Intelligent Systems
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/07/01 Time-Series Analysis Framework
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2019/07/01 QUEST AI: Answer Visualisation
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/02/02 - 2019/01/23 LEXIA: Commands Engine
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/06/30 Genetic Programming applied to the prediction of fuel consumption
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/06/30 KamaeLei Cloud - Software as a Service
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/03 Increase the IQ of your smartphone: road security on mobile platforms
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/03 Android app for Document Scaning, Storage and E-Fax
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021 European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2021 (2020)
2019/04/01 - 2020 European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2020 (2020/04/15 - 2020/04/18)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2018/04/01 - 2019 European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2019 (2019/04/24 - 2019/04/26)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2016 - 2016 Evostar 2016, 30 March- 1 Abril 2016, Porto, Portugal (2016 - 2016)
Conference (Other)
2015 - 2015 EPIA’2015 – 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. (2015 - 2015)
Conference (Other)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/04/26 - Current SPECIES — the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings. Executive Board Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018/01/01 - Current European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP)
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020 - Current International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoAPPS)
2019 - Current International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN)
2018 - Current European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP)
2018 - Current International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2015 - Current The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
Distinctions

Other distinction

2011 Individual Doctoral Grant (SFRH/BD/79649/2011)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2010 Third Place in the Codebits 2010 programming contest
Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses Online, Portugal
2008 Award to the 3% Best Students
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2007 Award to the 3% Best Students
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal