Jorge Miguel Carvalho Gomes
Contacts
E-mail: [email protected]
LinkedIn: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/jorgemcgomes
Webpage: http://jcgomes.pt
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=cCiaIMwAAAAJ
Personal
Information
Birth date: 10-09-1989
Address: Lisbon, Portugal
Scientific
Areas of
Expertise
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Teaching
Experience
Artificial life.
Evolutionary computation.
Evolutionary robotics.
Self-organised systems.
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Coevolution.
Multirobot systems.
Neuroevolution.
Simulation.
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Machine learning.
LATEX
Java.
R (statistical computing).
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Invited Teaching Assistant
• Programming laboratory.
• Introduction to computer architecture.
Sep 2013 –
Collaborator
• Mobile robots course.
Participation
in Research
Projects
2013
Instituto de Telecomunicações / BioMachines Lab, Lisbon, Portugal
CORATAM / HANCAD
2014 –
• Design and control of aquatic multirobot systems for maritime tasks. Supported by FCT and IT.
Evolution of Heterogeneous Multirobot Systems with Novelty Search
Oct 2012 –
• Artificial evolution of controllers for heterogeneous multirobot systems. Supported by a FCT
PhD grant and IT.
BioISI – Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute / LabMAg, Lisbon, Portugal
Evolution of Self-Organizing Behaviours with Novelty Search
Set 2011 – Set 2012
• Master thesis. Application of novelty search to the evolution of controllers for swarm robotics.
PREVER
Sep 2011 – Aug 2012
• Forecast system for mobile workforce requirements. Usage of data mining and machine learning
to forecast failures for Portugal’s largest electricity operator. Funded by the COMPETE/QREN
program.
City Induction
Oct 2010 – Jul 2011
• Semantic-web application for the categorization and analysis of urban intervention zones.
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collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon (UTL). Funded by FCT.
Virtual Art Gallery
Sep 2009 – Jul 2010
• Development of an application for the composition and adjustment of virtual art galleries, based
on X3D technology. Funded by University of Lisbon / Fundação Amadeu Dias.
Educational experiments on autonomous robots
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
• Study of experiments with autonomous robots as a way to illustrate key concepts of artificial
intelligence. Funded by an introductory FCT grant.
Education
COHiTEC, INDEG-IUL, Portugal
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Mar 2015 – Jul 2015
COHiTEC is a training program in technology commercialization aimed at supporting the valuation of the knowledge produced at Portuguese R&D institutions. In collaboration with COTEC
Portugal and North Carolina State University, USA.
Over 100 hours on courses, mentoring, and seminars.
Participation in the program with the OceanSwarm project (collective autonomous surface
drones), together with other members of the BioMachines Lab.
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering
Apr 2013 –
• Dissertation title: Evolution of Heterogeneous Multirobot Systems with Novelty Search
• Supervisors: Anders L. Christensen and Pedro Mariano
M.Sc. in Informatics Engineering
Sep 2010 – Nov 2012
• Specialisation branch: Knowledge and Interaction
• Dissertation title: Evolution of Self-Organising Behaviours with Novelty Search
• Supervisors: Paulo Urbano and Anders L. Christensen
• Final grade: 19/20
B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering
• Final grade: 18/20
Awards
Sep 2007 – Jul 2010
ECAL’15 Student Bursary Award
European Conference on Artificial Life.
2015
Maxdata excellence award in informatics
Best student in the informatics PhD programme at FCUL in 2013/2014.
2014
Best student presentation at NIR workshop/PPSN
Diversity-based Coevolution of Behaviourally Heterogeneous Multirobot Systems.
2014
2nd Best Finalist of Faculty of Sciences in 2010
2010
For being the second best finalist in the Faculty of Sciences in the year 2010 and the best finalist in
Informatics Engineering.
Merit grant of University of Lisbon
2008, 2009, 2010
Three consecutive awards, for being one of the best 7 students in FCUL in the years 2007/2008,
2008/2009 and 2009/2010.
Prémio Fundação da FCUL
For achieving a year grade of 18 val. in the first year of the B.Sc.
Publications
2008
1. “Cooperative Coevolution of Morphologically Heterogeneous Robots”. J. Gomes, P. Mariano, A. L.
Christensen. European Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 312–319, MIT Press, 2015. Nominated
for best paper award.
2. “Devising Effective Novelty Search Algorithms: A Comprehensive Empirical Study”. J. Gomes, P.
Mariano, A. L. Christensen. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), pp.
943–950, ACM Press, 2015.
3. “Hyb-CCEA: Cooperative Coevolution of Hybrid Teams”. J. Gomes, P. Mariano, A. L. Christensen. Companion Publication of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics Workshop), pp. 1251–1252, ACM Press, 2015.
4. “Cooperative Coevolution of Partially Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems”. J. Gomes, P. Mariano,
A. L. Christensen. Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp.
297–305, IFAAMAS, 2015.
5. “Design of Communication and Control for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones”. A. L. Christensen,
S. Oliveira, O. Postolache, M. J. d. Oliveira, S. Sargento, P. Santana, L. Nunes, F. Velez, P.
Sebastiao, V. Costa, M. Duarte, J. Gomes, T. Rodrigues, F. Silva. International Conference on
Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), pp. 548–555, 2015.
6. “Systematic Derivation of Behaviour Characterisations in Evolutionary Robotics”. J. Gomes, P.
Mariano, A. L. Christensen. Int. Conf. on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
(ALife), pp. 212–219, 2014.
7. “Novelty Search in Competitive Coevolution”. J. Gomes, P. Mariano, A. L. Christensen. Parallel
Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), pp. 233–242, 2014.
8. “Avoiding Convergence in Cooperative Coevolution with Novelty Search”. J. Gomes, A. L. Christensen, P. Mariano. Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp.
1149–1156, 2014.
9. “PMCNS: Using a Progressively Stricter Fitness Criterion to Guide Novelty Search”. J. Gomes,
P. Urbano, A. L. Christensen. International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR) 4,
pp. 1–19, 2014.
10. “Generic Behaviour Similarity Measures for Evolutionary Swarm Robotics”. J. Gomes, A. L.
Christensen. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), pp. 199–206, 2013.
Nominated for best paper award.
11. “Evolution of Swarm Robotic Systems with Novelty Search”. J. Gomes, P. Urbano, A. L. Christensen. Swarm Intelligence 7(2–3), pp. 115–144, 2013.
12. “Genetic Soundtracks: Creative Matching of Audio to Video”. J. Gomes, F. Silva, T. Chambel.
6th Int. Conf. on Digital Arts (ARTECH), 2012.
13. “Progressive Minimal Criteria Novelty Search”. J. Gomes, P. Urbano, A. L. Christensen. 13th
Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), pp. 281–290, 2012.
14. “Introducing Novelty Search in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics”. J. Gomes, P. Urbano, A. L. Christensen. 8th Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), pp. 85–96, 2012.
15. “Diverse Behaviors in Swarms Robotics with Novelty Search”. J. Gomes, P. Urbano, A. L. Christensen. Int. Conf. on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XIII), pp. 553–554,
2012.
16. “A Computer-Aided Urban Planning Tool driven by Semantic Web Ontologies”. J. Gomes, N.
Montenegro, P. Urbano, J. P. Duarte. 4th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications
(WISA), 2012.
17. “A Land Use Identification and Visualization Tool Driven by OWL Ontologies”. J. Gomes, N.
Montenegro, P. Urbano, J. P. Duarte. OWLED, 2012.
18. “A Land Use Planning Ontology: LBCS”. N. Montenegro, J. Gomes, P. Urbano, J. P. Duarte.
Future Internet 4(1), pp. 65–82, 2012.
19. “4CitySemantics: GIS-Semantic Tool for Urban Intervention Areas.”. N. Montenegro, J. Gomes,
P. Urbano, J. P. Duarte. 7th Virtual City and Territory Congress (7VCT), 2011.
20. “An OWL2 Land Use Ontology: LBCS”. N. Montenegro, J. Gomes, P. Urbano, J. P. Duarte. 11th
Int. Conf. on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), pp. 185–198, 2011.
21. “Virtual Exhibition Builder”. J. Gomes, M. B. Carmo, A. P. Cláudio. Int. Conf. on Computer
Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), pp. 330–333, 2011.
22. “Construção Interactiva de Exposições Virtuais”. J. Gomes, M. B. Carmo, A. P. Cláudio. INForum
2010: II Simpósio de Informática, pp. 305–316, 2010.
Activities and Volunteer in conference organization:
Volunteering
• EPIA 2011 – 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisboa.
• ECAI 2010 – 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisboa.
Participant in programming contests:
• Maratona Inter-Universitária de Programação (MIUP).
• Torneio Inter-Universitário de Programação (TIUP).
2011
2010
2009, 2010
2009