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Under The University of Texas at Austin-Portugal Program, the “collaboratory for Emerging Technologies” (colab) was launched on march 22nd 2006 (www.utaustinportugal.org). The colab has been a long-term collaborative project that aims to increase research and postgraduate studies in emerging technologies, with particular emphasis on media and digital content, advanced computing, mathematics, as well as other emerging technologies.
colab’s strategy relies on promoting Portuguese scientific and technological capacity and reinforcing the status of Portugal’s scientific institutions at an international level. This program involves a partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and several national universities and laboratories in Portugal. overall, the program involved about 80 Portuguese doctoral students by the summer 2010.
Please find more information at www.utaustinportugal.org.
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afonso o’[email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FCT-UNL / UT Austinresearch work: Mapping [geo] Cognition: Tracing the [Public] Mental Image of the City advisor/s: António Câmara
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Visual Narratives for Online Journalism: Data Visualization and Newsgamesadvisor/s: António Granado
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: LASIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratoryresearch work: Ana is a designer and her research PhD is on visualization with time-oriented data mostly in the video and movies’ context. advisor/s: Teresa Chambel
ana Margarida [email protected]
Host institution: U.Portoresearch work: Interactive audiovisual media, focusing on activist digital art. faculty position: Assistant at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), researched at the I&D Group, Graphics Interaction and Learning Technologies (GILT)
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Bruno [email protected]; [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: FCT-UNLresearch work: Bruno aims to develop and evaluate a user interface system for interactive television designed from a User Experience approach through an iterative software development work model and user centered design methodologies. advisor/s: Teresa RomãoFaculty position: Invited Assistant Professor at IADE-U, Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise. Also coordinator of the Executive Master in Interaction Design and the Executive Master in Web Design
Carlos [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Carlos proposes with his research a new method to study the match between the bridging mechanism of delivery of novelty and its perception. “Content tailored by whom surprises you,” is the proposal for search and recommendation outside the social bubble that objectifies his study.advisor/s: José Azevedo (UP), Eduarda M. Rodrigues (UP), Wenhong Chen (UT)
Carlos [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: New University of Lisbon / Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)research work: An inquiry on the conditions of possibility of choreography, to further develop an empiricist theory of choreographic techniques and a series of experiments which might realize them. advisor/s: Carla Fernandes (CLUNL, FCSH – UNL)Faculty position: Associate Researcher at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)
antónio [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Thesis title: Learning Activities with Semantic Hypermedia in Higher Educationadvisor/s: Carlos Correia, João Correia de Freitas and Joan Hughes
andré [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012Host institution: FCSH – UNLresearch work: Knowledge transfer in an Internet of Things.Faculty position: Assistant Lecturer at ESE.LX IPL
andreia teles [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010/2011Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Strategies for combining e-Learning, SeriousGames and Social Networks. advisor/s: Carlos Manuel Pires Correia; João Correia de FreitasFaculty position: Researcher in Research Center for Interactive Technologies, UNL.Tutor in the Master Degree of E-Learning Systems Management and in the Undergraduate Degree of the Science Communication at FCSH/UNL
ana Cabral [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host Institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Cinema in the Age of Digital Technology: A New Architecture of Immersion.advisor/s: João Mário Grilo
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Cláudia [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Title: Creating a model of sustainability for locative media projects. advisor/s: António Granado (FCSH), Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin) – (Note that I am currently in Austin working with Dr. Straubhaar)
Diana [email protected]
Enrolled in: 3rd yearHost institution: Office of Education and Outreach, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institutionresearch work: Diana’s research focuses on the integration of technology, in particular Augmented Reality, in museum environments for the communication of science. Her project involves the creation of an app that will afford the augmented interaction with a Victorian-age skeleton exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum.advisors: José Azevedo and Robert Costello
Domingos [email protected], [email protected]
research work: Domingo’s main interests are in Marketing online buyer behavior, B2b, B2C, B2G, branding.Faculty position: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media; Professor at FCSH/UNL
Carlos [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012Host institution: FCT/UNLresearch work: Interactive art installations that can create an immersive environment that responds to the movement and presence of the participant. Interests: Interactivity; Engagement; Affective Computing; Human-Computer Interaction.advisor/s: Nuno Correia
Catarina [email protected]
Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Catarina is wrapping up her PhD dissertation on the social impact of open and collaborative practices for the development of technologies. Faculty position: Doctoral student at FCSH-UNL, visiting scholar at ITP-NYU, Research Chair at the Open Source Hardware Association, TED Fellow, and member of NYC Resistor.
César pá[email protected]
Enrolled in: 3rd year Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Multimodal interfaces for learningadvisor/s: Eurico Manuel Elias Morais Carrapatoso, FEUP
Cláudia raquel [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4rd yearHost institution: ID+ Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Culturaresearch work: LIBRARY NETWORK: Integrated Communication in the Context of Participatory Culture. advisor/s: supervisor: Heitor Alvelos, PhD, University of Porto; Co-supervisor: Viviana Fernández Marcial, PhD, University of A Coruña
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Dora santos [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010/2011Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Cultural Journalism in a Digital Environment – New Models, Practices and Possibilities. This research proposes to examine the strategies that European media specialized in culture or with an important cultural section are taken in the digital environment. advisor/s: António Maria Salvado Coxito Granado, Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa Multimedia Editor at RTPFaculty position: invited lecturer in seminar “Specialized Journalism I” (Cultural Journalism module) – Master Degree in Journalism, at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Edgar a. [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009 Host institution: Universidade do Porto research work: PhD research title: S3D Motion Design: immersive, emotional and attitudinal impacts in communication perception. This research endeavors to investigate the role of stereoscopic viewing in shaping the perception of Motion Design. advisor/s: Eurico Carrapatoso ; Co- advisors: Sharon Strover; Carlos Oliveira
Eduardo [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: INESC TECresearch work: Title: Human Activity Perception with Context Modeling in a Data-driven Approach. The proposal research considers a camera-based unsupervised perceptual framework that help to understand how to identify and classify high-level social human activity at multiple set of temporal scales under a specific application context. advisor: Ricardo Morla; Co-advisor: Jaime S. Cardoso
Eduardo [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2nd yearHost institution: FEUPresearch work: Development of open educational resources (OER) enhancing blended learning methods for Arts in Higher Educationadvisor: Carla Morais ([email protected])Co-advisor: João Paiva ([email protected])
Fernando [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: FCT/UNLresearch work: The main question of his research is “How can Theatrical Robotics research and creation be a territory of experimentation for social robotics development?” The development of interactive performances involving human performers and robots, through a practice based research methodology, will raise a series of more specific questions in its different areas. advisor/s: Stephan Jürgens; Nuno Correia
Filipa Marcial pires [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: FCT/UNLresearch work: Homeostasis Pattern Camouflage
Filipe [email protected]
Enrolled: 4th yearHost institution: FEUPresearch work: His research is concerned with the exploration of space through sound performance and the sound(s) as an identity property of the space. It focused on devising methodologies to explore symbiotic relationships between sound and space, aiming at finding meaningful compositional elements in order to build a vocabulary that is idiosyncratic to the space and create music with it. advisor(s): Carlos Guedes and Bruce Pennycook
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gustavo Magalhã[email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: Universidade do Portoresearch work: Business model dynamics: the case of civic startupsadvisor/s: Catarina Roseira, Sharon Strover
Helena [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: The flow of influence in online social networksThe investigation she intends to putt through is about the impact of social changes and technological innovation in the flow of communication process and its implications on the national marketing industry. advisor/s: João Sáàgua
Henrique [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Mask Projection Stereolithography (MPSLA) Desktop 3D Printing Systemadvisor/s: Verónica Orvalho
Filipe [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th YearHost institution: FEUPresearch work: Experience and Meaning-making Process in Interactive Arts.In the context of this current investigation project we are searching for different ways to interpret and understand the nature of lived and felt experience during interactive art encounters. advisor/s: Patrícia Gouveia
george [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FEUP research work: Title: Syncopation as Transformation. His research focuses on music syncopation, ways of generating it and manipulating it in music performances. advisor/s: Carlos Guedes
gilberto [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Interactive Exploration of Large Databases of Audio Snippets for Creative Purposesadvisor/s: Carlos Guedes and Bruce Pennycook
guida [email protected]
Enrolled in: 3rd yearHost institution: FCSH-UNLresearch work: “Digital Storytelling and Interactive Media for Heritage interpretation: Unveiling the Story of Castro do Zambujal in 20th and 21st century Visual Media Formats”advisor/s: Daniel Alves; co-advisors: Margarida Medeiros, Michael Kunst
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Hugo Machado da [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FEUPresearch work: working title : Collaborative Environment Integrating Augmented Reality and Augmented Virtuality advisor/s: António Coelho, Rui Rodrigues
inês [email protected]
Enrolled in: 3rd yearHost institution: FCT/UNLresearch work: Improving the senior’s healthcare experience through digital media and meaningful use: Design strategy for an integrated Personal Health Record to be used by seniors, their family and healthcare providers.advisor/s: Supervisor – Nuno Correia; Co-Supervisor – Carlos Alberto dos Anjos Duarte
Horácio tomé [email protected]; [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Music, Reason and/or Emotion: A research focused on the real-time use of the brain potentials – generated within the dynamics between music, reasoning and emoting phenomena – in the context of the performative art practice and digital art creation, through low cost BCI systems applied to the constituents performed on this contexts, with the purpose of understand and explore their impact on the human intellectual and emotional behavior.advisor/s: Miguel Carvalhais, PhD; Bruce Pennycook, PhDFaculty position: Teacher, Assistant Equi. at ESMAE – Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espetáculo
Jasmina [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Her research interests include real time digital advertising and implementation of Augmented Reality in a context of increasing demand for innovative ways of publicity; relevancy and importance of current models of communications, brand promotion advertising campaigns, consumer behavior, marketing communication, media planning, new media adoption, etc. advisor/s: Pedro Quelhas Brito, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto; António Coelho, Faculty of Engineering
João [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: University of Texas and University of Porto, FEUP (Dual Degree)research work: Mixed Reality Immersive Design: A Study in Interactive Danceadvisor/s: Bruce Pennycook, Sharon Strover, Yacov Sharir, Carlos Guedes
isabel [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010 Host institution: Universidade Nova de Lisboa & University of Texas at Austinresearch work: Title – extended skin: designing interactive content for ubiquitous computing materials.Having “skin” as a conducting metaphor, her research aims to identify, apply and test ubiquitous computing concepts, experimenting with both digital media and smart materials. advisor/s: supervisor: António Câmara; advisor/s: Sharon Strover, Paulo Ferreira, Peter Hall, Dan OlsenFaculty position: Research fellow, CENSE – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research
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José luis [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012/2013Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: The impact of Internet on the agenda-setting proposed influence of mainstream news media in an election campaign and how does this dynamic impact the relationship between media and politicsadvisor/s: Francisco Rui Cádima
luís [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010/2011Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: e-Textbooks in Formal Learning: Conceptualize Ways to Enhance User Experience. The purpose of this research is to give contributions to the conceptualization of a model or prototype of a digital textbook (e-Textbook) in a formal learning environment, in a way that learners can improve their learning experience using devices that mediate digital content.advisor/s: supervisor – Carlos Manuel Pires Correia (FCSH/UNL); Co-supervisor – Vítor Duarte Teodoro, (DCSA/UNL)Faculty position: Research Fellow at Center for Interactive Technologies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. …
João Miguel aguiar [email protected]; [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012Host institution: FEUP research work: Research title: Digital Divide and Online Political participation: What Kind of Citizenship for the 21st Century?The main purpose of this research is to identify digital divide factors for the online political participation, taking into account different groups. advisor: José Azevedo (PhD), Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto; Co-advisor: Pedro Campos (PhD), Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto
Jorge [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: FEUPresearch work: Communication Design as a strategic constituent for the development of organizations – the input by digital mediaThis research project discusses design, communication, digital media participation, local cultures and creativity, focusing on an empirical-based case study of creative communication – Stories of Chairs. advisor/s: Heitor AlvelosFaculty position: Assistant Professor, Design Department, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave
João [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2007Host institution: Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Portoresearch work: The Nature of Exploration in Database Art Practicesadvisor/s: Heitor Manuel Pereira Pinto da Cunha e Alvelos, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do PortoFaculty position: Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Professor Auxiliar
luís [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009-2010Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: PhD research title: Emotional Biofeedback Driven Storytelling: Toward a psychophysiology augmented semantic of Hyper-film NarrativeThis research project is focused particularly on the study of audience emotional states and how biofeedback signals can be used to build an augmented multi-sensory semantic. advisor/s: Francisco Rui Cádima (FCSH-UNL); Tom Schatz (The University of Texas at Austin); Co-advisors: Luis Francisco-Revilla (The University of Texas at Austin), Nelson Zagalo (University of Minho) Faculty position: Lecturer at IE School of Communication (Instituto de Empresa), Madrid; Lecturer at UBI Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Covilhã
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luís [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: IT / FEUP (Instituto de Telecomunicações / Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto)research work: Virtual Marionette – Interaction Model for Digital PuppetryInspired in the traditional puppetry, Virtual Marionette brings the art of puppetry into computer animation exploring digital interfaces as puppetry controllers.advisors: Veronica Orvalho (Supervisor) / Rui Torres (Co-Supervisor)
Mónica Mendes [ALUMNI][email protected]
Enrolled in: 2008 (until 2012)Host institution: FCT/UNL and UCLAresearch work: ARTiVIS – Arts, Real-Time Video and Interactivity for SustainabilityARTiVIS is a research project that investigates innovative concepts and design methods regarding the use of real-time video as raw material for artistic exploration on environmental causes. B-Wind!, Hug@ree and Play with Fire are interactive installations that have been developed, publicly presented and evaluated in the scope of this research. advisor(s): Nuno Correia, FCT/UNL; Sílvia Chicó, FBA/UL
Moisés [email protected]; [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Title: Places of Augmented Geotagging: Space and Time Content Digitally Enriched in Enhancement of Cultural HeritageThe timeseeing: Lisbon STORYPLACES project may be defined as a mobile technological application project that makes the most of history stories, creatively using both mobile handheld devices such as smartphones or tablets. advisor/s: Supervisor: José António Tenedório (UNL); Co-Supervisor: Teresa Romão (UNL)
Marta [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FCT/UNL and University of Texas at Austinresearch work: ph.D title: A bioelectric approach to human development. Bringing technology back to the human body.Main areas of research: Bicomputing/Biorobotics/Neuroscience/Physiology/Human Development advisor/s: Paul E. Resta (UT Austin) & António Câmara(FCT/UNL)Faculty position: Visiting researcher at UT Austin
nuno Duarte Martins [ALUMNI][email protected]
Enrolled in – 2009Host institution: FEUPresearch work: “Os Media Participativos on-line na luta contra o Cancro: O trabalho de comunicação de cidadãos e instituições”advisor/s: Heitor Alvelos and Rita EspanhaFaculty position: Assistant Professor, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA)
paula [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2013Host institution: FCT/UNL research work: The Earth as Interface: A multi-platform environmental channel through participatory sensing systems for environmental and public health surveillance.advisor/s: António Câmara
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pedro Â[email protected]
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: FEUP research work: Title: dataflower – harnessing heterogeneous parallelism for creative applicationsdataflower is a novel collaborative visual development environment that makes high performance heterogeneous parallel hardware accessible for creative applications.advisor/s: Luis Paulo Santos; Rui Rodrigues (co-advisor)
paulo nuno Vicente [ALUMNI][email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009 (until 2013)Host institution: FCSH-UNLresearch work: Title: International News Reporting in the Multidimensional Network: The socio-demographics, professional culture and newswork of foreign correspondents working across Sub-Saharan Africaadvisor/s: António Granado (FCSH-UNL), Rosental Calmon Alves (UT Austin)
paulo [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FCT/UNL research work: Title: Minimal Computation Structures for Ubiquitous Printed DisplaysThis research project explores how the concepts behind printed electronics and electrochromism can be used to seamlessly merge the physical and digital worlds. advisor/s: António Câmara
paulo J. [email protected]
Enrolled in: 3rd year;Host institution: CETAC.MEDIA;research work Title: Buzz about science: Is Guerrilla Marketing a valid approach for the public communication of science?This project aims at validating the Guerrilla Marketing approach, in a broad definition, as a promoter of a wider social interest in science.advisor/s: José Manuel Pereira Azevedo, University of Porto; co-advisor: Brad Love – UT Austin.
pedro [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: Instituto de Telecomunicaçõesresearch work: Title: Easy Facial Rigging and Animation ApproachesThis thesis presents novel approaches to improve the jobs of the digital artists responsible for preparing a face for animation and for actually animating a character’s face. advisor: Verónica Orvalho
pedro Jeró[email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FLUP research work: Making online news in local newsrooms. This is an ethnography Ph.D study made in three regional newspapers and the first one related to the Portuguese proximity online journalism (ciberjornalismo de proximidade). Local media, online and mobile journalism, social media and digital media production are my research topics.advisor/s: Hélder BastosFaculty position: Lecture at Miguel Torga Higher Institute
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ricardo Baptista [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009 Host institution: FEUP research work: Title: Training and Certification with Game Based Learning His PhD research treats training and certification through game-based learning, particularly serious games. This research work proposes a new approach about using a serious game for competencies’ certification by using in-game validation. advisor/s: António Coelho (FEUP), Carlos Vaz de Carvalho (ISEP)
rita sácontact: [email protected]
Enrolled in: 3rd yearHost institution: FEUPresearch work: title: Do-It-Together – Art Practice in Open Community SpacesHer research proposes to examine, interpret, and establish a series of roadmaps that may be applied by art practitioners, by experiencing this collaborative potential, while working with local open community spaces, such as hackerspaces, makerspaces, media labs and DIY communities.advisor/s: Heitor Alvelos
rodrigo [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2011Host institution: FEUPresearch work: SOUND+VISUALS+MOVEMENT. Relationships between Sound, Visuals and Movement in real-time audiovisual interactive spacesadvisor/s: Carlos Guedes
pedro suspiro [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012Host institution: FCSH /UNLresearch work: Title: Integration of virtual social networks in smart public spaces: The Ridesharing system in Portuguese context This study is about urban mobility and what it represents in nowadays, with all your problems and issues. advisor/s: Jorge Manuel Martins Rosa rossana santos
Enrolled in: 2008Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Augmented information sharing and management using video camera networksadvisor/s: Nuno Correia
rui avelans [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Multi-linear Interactive films using live action structured videoThe purpose of this research is to investigate the conceptual and technical possibilities of producing audiovisual projects that allow the viewer/user to manipulate live action content on an interactive basis. advisor/s: António Câmara (FCT/UNL); Patrícia Gouveia, (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias / FCSH /UNL)
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: University of Portoresearch work: Computer-Mediated Interactive Music Algorithms for Jazz Compingadvisor/s: Carlos Guedes (ESMAE), Bruce Pennycook (UTA)
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sandra [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: FEUP / NAi–i2ADS–FBAUPresearch work title: The Exaltation of a Sense – Haptic Artadvisor: Miguel Velhote Correia
soraia [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: FEUP and INESC TEC/ INESC Portoresearch work: Location Based Transmedia Storytelling: Enhancing the Tourism ExperienceThis research aims to understand the impact of the use of location based transmedia storytelling techniques in tourism, particularly the advantages, disadvantages and best practices. advisor/s: Artur Pimenta Alves (University of Porto (FEUP) and INESC TEC/ INESC Porto); Célia Quico (Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies)Faculty position: Lecturer at Multimedia Master (FEUP)
teresa [email protected]
Enrolled in: 4th yearHost institution: FEUPresearch work: Facial Skin Shading Parameterization Methodology for Rendering EmotionsMost current facial skin shading models for rendering skin appearance do not provide guidelines for portraying psycho-psysiological color variations, that characterize specific emotions, such as blushing from anger or blanching from fear. This research proposes a parameterizable methodology, which provides a novel guideline approach to artists, in order to hand paint expressive skin.advisor/s: Verónica Costa Orvalho
tiago gama [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: University of Portoresearch work: Online Journalism: Cognitive neuroscience towards a new distribution modelGiven the urgent need for newspapers to understand the behavior of users that consume news through social media platforms, we aim at answering the following question – in a certain social media platform (Facebook and Twitter), what are the news contents (e.g., sports, economy) written in what way (e.g., Público, Correio da Manhã) that engages users the most? advisor/s: Supervisor: Paulo Frias (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto); Co-supervisor: Pedro Almeida (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto)
tiago [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Instrumental Fado: A generative Interactive Systemadvisor/s: Jorge Martins Rosa (FCSH) / Bruce Pennycook (UT Austin)
Vânia gonç[email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: FEUPresearch work: Title: Online Video in the Future Internet Age: Business and Policy DynamicsThe objectives of this study are to explore business and policy transformations that will potentially occur in both the telecom and media business ecosystems in the scope of online video services. advisor/s: A. Pimenta Alves, Joana Resende, Pieter Ballon
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Vítor [email protected]
Host institution: FCSH/UNLresearch work: Through academic research and teaching as a lecturer in multimedia related subjects, Vítor worked in several approaches of digital contents as a live, searchable and socially constructed system, exploring the relationships between the virtual data-bodies and their impact on physical materiality, as well as the innovative strategies and technologies that push the medium to the production of a new knowledge and daily practices, to an array of multiple purposes and applications.Faculty position: Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Senior Web/System Architecture/Database Developer at Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
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Diego Marcon Farias [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnico and University of Texas at Austinresearch work: Weak KAM and Aubry-Mather theories in an optimal switching settingadvisor/s: Diogo Aguiar Gomes (IST Lisboa) and Alessio Figalli (UT Austin)
Farid Bozorgnia [email protected]; [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2012 Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnicoresearch work: Partial Differential Equations; Free Boundary Problems; Eigenvalue ProblemsFaculty position: Post-docadvisor/s: Diogo Gomes
Filippo Cagnetti [aluMni][email protected]
Faculty position: University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Hassan alishah [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2008Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnico research work: Thesis title: KAM Theory, Presymplectic Dynamics and Lie algebroidsFaculty position: Postdoc at Lisbon Universityadvisor/s: Rui Loja Fernandes
Juliana pimentel [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: IST-UTLresearch work: Assymptotic behavior of slowly non-dissipative systemsadvisor/s: Carlos Rocha
levon nurbekyan [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnico research work: PhD thesis “Weak KAM theory on the d-infinite dimensional torus”Levon research area is related to infinite dimensional dynamical systems. He was particularly interested in the extensions of the Weak KAM theory to the infinite dimensional setting. These kind of systems can be applied to the research in statistical physics. advisor/s: Diogo Gomes, Alessio Figalli
rafayel teymurazyan [aluMni][email protected]
Enrolled in: 2008 (until 2013)Host institution: Universidade de Lisboaresearch work: Thesis title: “Obstacle Type Problems in Orlicz-Sobolev Spaces”advisor/s: José Francisco Rodrigues
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Verónica Quítalo [aluMni][email protected]
Enrolled in: 2008 (until 2013)Host institution: UT Austin and IST, Lisbonresearch work: Thesis title: Regularity of a segregation problem with an optimal control operatoradvisor/s: Luis Caffarelli and Diogo Gomes
Vardan Voskanyan [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: ISTresearch work: PhD title “Extended Mean-field Games”Faculty position: Junior researcher, Institute of Mathematics, NAS Armeniaadvisor/s: Diogo Aguiar Gomes
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Daniel simões [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnicoresearch work: PhD research title: Smooth Convex Surfaces for Modeling and Simulating Multibody Systems with Compliant Contact Elements.Daniel research interests are focused on Computational Engineering disciplines, namely, Computational Geometry, Computational Mechanics, Medical Image Processing, and Computer Graphics. I have a body of work on geometric modeling of anatomical structures and contact/collision detection algorithms. advisor/s: Miguel Silva, Jorge Ambrósio, Rick Neptune
David [email protected]
Host institution: U.Coimbra/UT Austin
Diogo lopes [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnicoresearch work: Large-Eddy Simulations of the Turbulent Entrainment in jetsadvisor/s: Carlos Bettencourt da Silva, José Carlos Fernandes Pereira, Venkat Raman
Diogo telmo neves [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2008Host institution: Universidade do Minho and University of Texas at Austinresearch work: Parallelization of Phylogenetics ApplicationsFaculty position: Researcher at Departamento de Informática da Universidade do Minhoadvisor/s: João Luís Sobral, Tandy Warnow, Keshav Pingali
João Barbosa [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2010Host institution: University of Texas Austin / University of Minhoresearch work: Hardware Aware Scheduling in Heterogeneous Environmentsadvisor/s: Donald Fussel (UTexas – Austin), Luis Paulo Santos and Alberto Jose Proença (UMinho)
Jorge Milhazes [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon)research work: “Modeling of double diffusion phenomena – Application to Solar Ponds” Solar Ponds are great water reservoirs that collect and store solar energy for later extraction under the form of thermal energy. These devices are based on the impediment of natural convection by establishment of a saline gradient that opposes the adverse temperature, induced by solar radiation. We expect to get a better understanding of the processes of multidiffusion with free convection, in order to determine marginal stability criteria for the phenomena. This knowledge will allow proper sizing and maintenance of Solar Ponds.advisor/s: Heitor Lobato Pina (IST)
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Maria José Duarte [email protected], [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009 Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (in Portugal), Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin (in USA)research work: PhD research title – Modeling of Cohesive Fracture in Concrete Structures; Description – Cohesive fracture propagation modeled by Hybrid-Trefftz finite elements with application to Civil Engineering structures and others, with developments in crack repair and damageadvisor/s: João António Teixeira de Freitas (advisor in Portugal), Jorge Manuel Vinagre Alfaiate (co-advisor in Portugal), Thomas J. R. Hughes (Sponsor in USA)
rui Carlos gonçalves [email protected]
Enrolled in: 2009Host institution: Universidade do Minhoresearch work: Parallel Programming by Transformationadvisor/s: João Luís Sobral, Professor Don Batory
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