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Ezequiel Santos is a Ph.D. candidate in Digital Games Development at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA), within the 2Ai – Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as part of the joint IPCA–IADE doctoral programme. His research examines how serious games can reduce food waste by improving nutrition literacy and supporting sustainable consumption behaviors. He holds a Master’s in Digital Games Development from PUC-SP and a Bachelor’s in Systems Analysis and Development from FIAP, with an extension in Entrepreneurship at Babson College (USA). His broader research interests include serious games, human–computer interaction, mobile computing, and behavior change through interactive technologies. Professionally, he works as an SDK Developer at Miniclip, focusing on iOS ecosystem integration and cross-platform software architecture. His experience spans multiple languages and environments, including Swift, Objective-C, C++, C#, Unity, Ruby, Bash, Python, and Groovy. He has contributed to research in serious games, HCI, and AI-enhanced food-waste mitigation, and participates actively in academic dissemination, teaching activities, and technological innovation initiatives. Before his academic trajectory in games and sustainability, he trained in industrial automation as a Mechatronics Technician.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ezequiel França dos Santos
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Santos, Ezequiel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F615-0E8D-AE1D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9321-8444
Google Scholar ID
6nOPl94AAAAJ
LattesiD
7055262915895198
Researcher Id
H-2680-2013
Scopus Author Id
59325218800

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/09 - 2027/09
Ongoing
 Desenvolvimento de Jogos Digitais (Doutoramento)
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

IADE Creative University, Portugal
2021 - 2025
Concluded
 Computação Aplicada à Educação e Tecnologias Educacionais (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Tecnologia Educacional
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2020 - 2022
Concluded
 Mestrado Profissional em Desenvolvimento de Jogos Digitais (Mestrado)
Major in Engenharia de Jogos Digitais
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
"Gestos e Jogos: Reflexões e Desenvolvimento de um sistema de detecção de gestos baseado em wearables para controle de jogos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019 - 2021
Concluded
 Engenharia de Software (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2016 - 2018
Concluded
 Tecnologia em Análise de Sistemas (Licenciatura)
Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista, Brazil
"Aplicação de sensores inteligentes para monitoramento da qualidade do ar em SP" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/01 - 2009/12
Concluded
 Técnico em Mecatrónica (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Escola Senai Anchieta, Brazil
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - Current Software Developer Miniclip, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial Aplicada
UIDB/05549/2020
10.54499/UIDB/05549/2020
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ezequiel Santos; Cláudia Sevivas; Vítor Carvalho. "Fruta Feia - Information and Communication Technology in Circular Food Networks: A Scoping Review". 2026.
    10.1007/978-3-032-11509-6_11
Conference paper
  1. Santos, Ezequiel. Corresponding author: Santos, Ezequiel. "Chef Nata: A Gamified AI Assistant to Reduce Household Food Waste through Micro-Interactions and 8-Bit Aesthetics". Paper presented in VI Brazilian Interdisciplinary Congress on Science and Technology - COBICET, 2025.
    Published • 10.29327/27640582.1159661
  2. Santos, Ezequiel; Ribeiro, Claudia; Carvalho, Vítor. "Serious Games for Food Waste Reduction: A Qualitative Review". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), Manchester, 2025.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.17234252
  3. Ezequiel Santos; Joaquim José de Almeida Soares Gonçalves. "Comparative Analysis of AI Models in Managing Household Food Waste: OpenAI GPT-4, Google Gemini, Mistral, and Anthropic Claude". 2024.
    10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.28596035
  4. David de Oliveira Lemes; Santos, Ezequiel; Eduardo Romanek; Celso Fujimoto; Adriano Felix Valente. Corresponding author: David de Oliveira Lemes. "Análise e modelagem de jogos digitais: relato de uma experiência educacional utilizando metodologias ativas em um grupo multidisciplinar". Paper presented in V Congresso Brasileiro Interdisciplinar em Ciência e Tecnologia - COBICET, 2024.
    Published • 10.31219/osf.io/m6a4g
  5. Petersen, Joao; Pires, Gonçalo Andrade; Miraldo, Andre; Santos, Ezequiel; Graça, José; Vilhena, Estela. "The Internet Gaming Disorder and predictors of Loneliness in Portuguese higher education students: a preliminary study". Paper presented in International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), Funchal, 2024.
    Published • 10.1109/segah61285.2024.10639608
  6. Ezequiel França Dos Santos. "Dependency Management in iOS Development: A Developer Survey Perspective". 2024.
    10.1145/3647632.3647992
  7. Santos, Ezequiel França dos. "Cordel Aumentado: Um aplicativo para utilização da realidade aumentada aplicada na literatura de cordel". Paper presented in X CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE INFORMÁTICA NA EDUCAÇÃO, 2020.
    10.5753/wcbie.2021.218091
  8. Santos, Ezequiel; Ramos, Reinaldo Augusto de Oliveira; Junior, José Carlos Buesso. "NFCPlay: using NFC tags on VR mobile games to overcome the lack of input on VR Headsets". 2020.
    10.5753/svr_estendido.2020.12964
Conference poster
  1. Santos, Ezequiel; Dina Palomino Castillo, Vanessa. "Desenvolvimento de um aplicativo para consulta ao Sistema de Classificação Internacional de Atenção Primária - Segunda Edição (CIAP2)". Paper presented in 9º Congresso Brasileiro de Telemedicina e Telessaúde - 9º CBTms, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Ezequiel Santos; Cláudia Sevivas; Vítor Carvalho. "Managing Food Waste Through Gamification and Serious Games: A Systematic Literature Review". Information (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/info16030246.
    10.3390/info16030246
  2. dos Santos, Ezequiel Franca; Ezequiel França dos Santos; Santos, E.F.D.. "Experimental Shake Gesture Detection API for Apple Watch". ArXiv (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/69701807/.
    10.1109/ICECCME62383.2024.10796862
Preprint
  1. Ezequiel Santos; Moisés Moreira; Duarte Duque; Cláudia Sevivas; Vítor Carvalho. "A Measurement Framework for Serious Games Addressing Food Loss and Waste (SG-FLW)". 2026. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202605.1846.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202605.1846.v1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Gestos e jogos: reflexões e desenvolvimento de um sistema de detecção de gestos baseado em Wearables para controle de jogos". Master, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia, 2022. https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/25768.
    10.13140/rg.2.2.18914.81608
Working paper
  1. Santos, Ezequiel. 2019. "Desenvolvimento de um aplicativo para consulta ao CIAP-2". https://proceedings.science/cbmfc-2019/papers/desenvolvimento-de-um-aplicativo-para-consulta-ao-ciap-2#.
    10.29327/cbtms9.144910

Other

Other output
  1. Apple Vision Pro: Comments in Healthcare. ArXiv. 2024. dos Santos, E.F.; Castillo, V.D.P.; Ezequiel França Dos Santos; Vanessa Dina Palomino Castillo; Santos, Ezequiel; Castillo, Vanessa. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85187725449&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arXiv.2401.08685
Software
  1. F. Santos, Ezequiel. "WatchShaker". 2023.
    10.5281/zenodo.8054488
Activities

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/08/28 - 2025/08/29 Volunteered at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)
Conference
 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, United States
2024/06/17 - 2024/06/21 6th International Summer School on AI and Games International Summer School on AI and Games
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta, Malta
2024/05/07 - 2024/06/07 PhD course: Sustainable and Digital Transformation
Meeting
 Sustainable and Digital Transformation
Aalborg Universitet, Denmark

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021/06/10 - 2021/06/15 IEEE COG 2021: IEEE Conference on Games 2021 IEEE Press
Distinctions

Award

2020 Best XR Experience award - XXII Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality
Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao, Brazil

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Title

2014 Intel Student Expert
Intel Corp, United States

Other distinction

2005 Certificado de Menção Honrosa na 1º OBMEP (Olimpíada de Matemática das Escolas Públicas)
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil

Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática, Brazil